State profile · OSHA ITA
North Dakota workplace safety
How 1,696 OSHA-reporting employers across North Dakota compare on workplace injuries, 2016–2024.
- 1,696
- Employers
- 5.3
- Avg TCR
- 27,648
- Injuries
- 18
- Fatalities
The state picture
North Dakota's reporting employers average 5.3 recordable injuries per 100 workers, 2.0 times the ~2.7 all-industry private-sector norm.
- 5.3
- avg TCR · per 100 workers
- 1,696
- employers reporting
- 27,648
- recordable injuries
- 18
- worker fatalities
State average reflects each state's industry mix. Sort the table below by each employer's own grade against its industry benchmark.
26% of North Dakota's reporting establishments earn an F and 14% an A, each measured against its own industry benchmark, not the state line. These grades are a transparent derived index, not an official OSHA rating; see the Methodology for the exact formula.
Where North Dakota ranks among states
54 states & territories by avg TCRNorth Dakota's average TCR of 5.3 is lower than 42% of states, a state average reflects industry mix as much as workplace safety.
A second cut tells a different story: ranked by injury rate alone, North Dakota is #32 of 54. Ranked instead by fatalities per employer establishment, it's #14 of 54, a 18-place swing. A state can run a moderate everyday injury rate while its rarer, most severe incidents cluster differently; the two metrics measure different things and shouldn't be read as interchangeable.
How North Dakota Workplaces Compare
North Dakota hosts 1,696 employer establishments currently reporting to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. These are not small shops: federal rules require ITA submission from workplaces with 250+ employees in any industry, plus workplaces with 20+ employees in the roughly 60 NAICS codes classified as high-hazard (construction, manufacturing, healthcare, warehousing, agriculture, and others). Across this North Dakota cohort, workers have logged 27,648 recordable injuries, producing a state average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 5.3 injuries per 100 full-time workers per year during 2016–2024.
The state has recorded 18 workplace fatalities in the reporting window, which is tracked separately from non-fatal injury counts because fatal events have their own investigation trail under 29 CFR 1904.39. Reading state-level TCR requires context: the headline figure is driven by a state's industry mix. A state with a heavy construction, logging, or meatpacking footprint will mechanically post higher TCR than a state dominated by finance or professional services, even when individual employers are equally well-managed. That is why the employer table below sorts each establishment by its own TCR and letter grade, against the BLS benchmark for its specific industry, not against the state average.
For jobseekers, relocators, investors, and local safety professionals, state-level pages function as an entry point: use the grade-sorted list to spot the safest and highest-risk employers in North Dakota, then click through to an individual establishment for its year-by-year injury, illness, DART, and fatality trajectory. Compare multiple years before drawing conclusions, a single outlier year can reflect a specific event, whereas a sustained pattern across reporting cycles is a more reliable risk signal. All data comes directly from employer-submitted OSHA Form 300A summaries. State OSHA plans in 22 states operate their own enforcement programs in parallel, but the injury data above is harmonized through the federal ITA system.
Employers in North Dakota, by injury rate
Page 18 of 34| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Knife River Care Center | Beulah | Skilled nursing facilities | B | 3.5 |
| FCA - Fessenden | Fessenden | Public warehousing and stora | B | 3.5 |
| Lutheran Sunset Home | Grafton | Group homes for the disabled | B | 3.4 |
| Keene FST (KNEWD) | Keene | Oilfield Waste Disposal | D | 3.4 |
| Jamestown Clinic | Jamestown | Family physicians' offices ( | C | 3.4 |
| Nddic - Dickinson | Dickinson | Couriers and Express Deliver | B | 3.4 |
| Borsheim Crane Service, LLC - Williston | Williston | All Other Specialty Trade Co | D | 3.4 |
| Delta by Marriott Fargo | Fargo | Hotels, resort, without casi | C | 3.4 |
| J-Mar Enterprises, Inc. - Fgo | West Fargo | Dry bulk carrier, truck, lon | B | 3.4 |
| Touchmark - TFND | Fargo | Retirement Communities | C | 3.4 |
| Dakota Alpha | Mandan | 623210 Residential Intellect | C | 3.4 |
| Grand Forks Service Center-BB | Grand Forks | Electric Power Distribution | F | 3.4 |
| Sheyenne Dakota Industries | West Fargo | Connectors and terminals for | C | 3.4 |
| Bobcat Company- Bismarck | Bismarck | Construction machinery manuf | C | 3.4 |
| 3044 Cash Wise Dickinson | Dickinson | Retail Grocery | C | 3.4 |
| Vigen Construction- Ryder, ND | Ryder | Addition, alteration and ren | C | 3.4 |
| Grand Forks Transportation | Grand Forks | Specialized Freight except U | B | 3.4 |
| TriGen Ag Partners LLC | Max | Grain elevators merchant who | D | 3.4 |
| Headquarters | Williston | Distribution of electric pow | F | 3.4 |
| John Deere Seeding Group - Valley City | Valley City | Seeders, farm-type, manufact | C | 3.4 |
| ND,Hillsboro-Medical Center-General Medical And Surgical Hospitals | Hillsboro | General medical and surgical | A | 3.4 |
| BMC-Fargo | Fargo | Construction machinery and e | D | 3.4 |
| Midwest Ironworks LLC | Horace | Air system balancing and tes | C | 3.4 |
| JDP Electric, Inc. | Fargo | Low voltage electrical work | C | 3.3 |
| 33030001-330301 Mercy Medical Center Williston DBA Chi M | Williston | General Medical and Surgical | A | 3.3 |
| 55828 Fargo | Fargo | Commuter Rail Systems | B | 3.3 |
| Grand Forks Agronomy/Energy | Grand Forks | Farm Supplies Merchant Whole | D | 3.3 |
| Watford Yard Office | Alexander | Natural Gas Liquid Extractio | D | 3.3 |
| ND,Bismarck-GSS Augusta Place-Nursing Care Facilities (Skilled Nursing Facilities) | Bismarck | Nursing homes | B | 3.3 |
| Wm 1581 | Fargo | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | C | 3.3 |
| 3060_5891 | Bismarck | - | C | 3.3 |
| Steffes Solutions LLC - Dickinson | Dickinson | Skids, metal, manufacturing | C | 3.3 |
| St Gerards Community of Care | Hankinson | Nursing homes | B | 3.3 |
| 2689 Hornbacher's Osgood | Fargo | Retail Grocery | C | 3.3 |
| Gwinner Main | Gwinner | Grain and Field Bean Merchan | D | 3.3 |
| Anchor Ingredients - Hillsboro West | Hillsboro | Grain elevators merchant who | D | 3.3 |
| Hummel Enterprises dba Cloud 9 Cleaning | Fargo | Cleaning homes | B | 3.3 |
| Grand Forks (West) | Grand Forks | Skids, metal, manufacturing | C | 3.3 |
| ND,FARGO - Southpointe Clinic Campus - Offices of Physicians (except Mental Health Specialists) | Fargo | Osteopathic physicians' (exc | C | 3.3 |
| 4921 Hwy 85 | Williston | Pavement, highway, road, str | C | 3.3 |
| BISMARCK_1441120 | Bismarck | Mail and Parcel Delivery | B | 3.3 |
| First Care Health Center | Park River | Hospitals, general medical a | A | 3.3 |
| Bechtold Paving Inc | Minot | Pavement, highway, road, str | C | 3.3 |
| Hav-It Services - Industry | Harvey | Rehabilitation job counselin | C | 3.3 |
| Hill Top Home of Comfort, Inc | Killdeer | Group homes for the disabled | A | 3.3 |
| 1096 Fargo | Fargo | Retail | C | 3.3 |
| Arthur | Arthur | Nondurable goods agents and | D | 3.3 |
| CrossCountry Freight Solutions - Bismarck | Bismarck | Motor freight carrier, gener | B | 3.3 |
| Missouri Valley Family YMCA | Bismarck | Social organizations, civic | D | 3.2 |
| FG Plant - Grand Forks | Grand Forks | Frozen fruit, juice and vege | C | 3.2 |
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
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What North Dakota's safety record means for you
North Dakota averages a TCR of 5.3 - about 2.0× the ~2.7 national private-sector norm. A state average hides wide employer-by-employer variation.
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State averages use the credible-subset mean across reporting establishments; they are statistical summaries, not regulatory assessments.
Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.