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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 19 of 34| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CHI Living Communities Riverview | Fargo | Assisted-living facilities w | C | 3.2 |
| North Dakota Operations Center | Berthold | Well servicing, oil and gas | D | 3.2 |
| 3103 Family Fare Supermarkets (West Fargo, Nd) 8-26-14 Name Change | West Fargo | Supermarkets and Other Groce | C | 3.2 |
| 3060_5894 | Williston | - | C | 3.2 |
| DNOW US ND Williston 5072 Owan Industrial Park Dr | Williston | General-purpose industrial m | D | 3.2 |
| Grand Forks T & M | Grand Forks | Specialized Freight (except | B | 3.2 |
| Coca Cola Bottling Co | Williston | Soft drinks merchant wholesa | D | 3.2 |
| Wahpeton Clinic | Wahpeton | Family physicians' offices ( | C | 3.2 |
| 2662-7049 | Bismarck | Bus and Other Motor Vehicle | B | 3.2 |
| 3116 Family Fare (University Dr, Fargo,Nd) | Fargo | Supermarkets and Other Groce | C | 3.2 |
| Retrax | Grand Forks | Tops, convertible automotive | B | 3.2 |
| 3209_6190 | West Fargo | - | C | 3.2 |
| Fargo Baseball LLC | Fargo | Baseball teams, professional | C | 3.2 |
| Double EE Service, Inc. | Williston | Gas and liquid analysis inst | C | 3.2 |
| Milton | Milton | Grain and Field Bean Merchan | D | 3.2 |
| FedEx 1212 AIRPORT RD | Bismarck | Courier and Express Delivery | A | 3.2 |
| West River Head Start | Mandan | 623210 Residential Intellect | C | 3.2 |
| 2692 Hornbacher's Express - Fargo, ND | Fargo | Retail Grocery | C | 3.2 |
| Innovative Basement Authority Fargo | Fargo | Footing and foundation concr | C | 3.1 |
| 696 Hornbachers-Grand Forks (Sv 005 | Grand Forks | SUPERMARKETS AND OTHER GROCE | C | 3.1 |
| 0085 - Minot | Minot | Discount Department Stores | C | 3.1 |
| Essentia Health - Jamestown Clinic | Jamestown | Physicians' (except mental h | C | 3.1 |
| HIT Inc | Mandan | Intellectual and development | C | 3.1 |
| Harlow's School Bus Service - Bismarck | Bismarck | School bus services | B | 3.1 |
| Transystems LLC - Drayton Project | Drayton | Agricultural products trucki | B | 3.1 |
| Rainbow Energy Center | Underwood | Electric power generation, f | F | 3.1 |
| 2904-ASM-ND | Any | Agents and brokers, durable | D | 3.1 |
| 374688-Jamestown Po | Jamestown | Mail and Parcel Delivery | B | 3.1 |
| 4th Corporation | New Rockfored | Intellectual and development | C | 3.1 |
| Grand Forks Terminal | Grand Forks | General freight trucking, lo | B | 3.1 |
| 71242 | Fargo | Department Stores | C | 3.1 |
| Baker Boy, Inc | Dickinson | Commercial bakeries | C | 3.1 |
| KPH Inc. | Fargo | Sewer main, pipe and connect | C | 3.1 |
| Fargo Hose Company | Fargo | Control valves, fluid power, | C | 3.1 |
| Dakota Spirit AgEnergy, LLC | Spiritwood | Denatured alcohol manufactur | C | 3.1 |
| Tiny Tykes, Inc. | Wahpeton | Child day care centers | C | 3.1 |
| 2194 - Bismarck | Bismarck | Discount Department Stores | C | 3.0 |
| Woodcraft Industries Wahpeton | Wahpeton | Board, particle, manufacturi | C | 3.0 |
| West Fargo Hospitality | West Fargo | Hotels (except casino hotels | C | 3.0 |
| West Fargo_1387021 | West Fargo | Mail and Parcel Delivery | B | 3.0 |
| Fargo Elim Assisted Living Pioneer House | Fargo | Assisted-living facilities w | B | 3.0 |
| Wally Cash Trucking Inc | Grand Forks | General Freight Trucking, Lo | B | 3.0 |
| Rahr Malting Co. - Hillsboro ND | Hillsboro | Barley, malt, manufacturing | C | 3.0 |
| Culinex | Fargo | Garbage disposal units, comm | D | 3.0 |
| ICS, Inc | Grand Forks | Chimney, concrete, construct | C | 3.0 |
| Osgood 7 Day Clinic | Fargo | Family physicians' offices ( | B | 3.0 |
| Construction | Bismarck | Mechanical contractors | C | 3.0 |
| Precision Underground Inc | Bismarck | Cable laying (e.g., cable te | C | 3.0 |
| ND,FARGO - North Medical Center Campus - Offices of Physicians (except Mental Health Specialists) | Fargo | Offices of Physicians (excep | B | 3.0 |
| Shopko Hometown #585 (Mayville, ND) | Mayville | Department Stores | C | 3.0 |
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.