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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 20 of 34| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lunseth Plumbing & Heating | Grand Forks | Plumbing and heating contrac | C | 3.0 |
| Strata Corporation | Grand Forks | Oil field road construction | C | 3.0 |
| Fargo 224 | Fargo | Cable broadcasting networks | F | 3.0 |
| Fargo Service Center | Fargo | Electric Power Distribution | F | 3.0 |
| Fargo FO | Fargo | Grocery stores | C | 3.0 |
| Northern Improvement Fargo | Fargo | Road construction | C | 3.0 |
| Benedictine Living Communities, Inc | Wahpeton | Skilled nursing facilities | A | 3.0 |
| Finley, ND Corporate Headquarters | Finley | Frozen doughs made from purc | C | 3.0 |
| A&R Roofing Co INC | West Fargo | Low slope roofing installati | C | 3.0 |
| Minot, Nd 305 Se 27th St | Minot | - | D | 3.0 |
| Fargo Sunflower | Fargo | Roasted Nuts and Peanut Butt | B | 3.0 |
| Ardent Mills Harvey | Harvey | Flour Milling | C | 3.0 |
| 2685 Hornbacher's Northport | Fargo | Retail Grocery | C | 3.0 |
| Fargo/Moorhead ND FXFE-FAR | West Fargo | Less Than Truckload General | B | 3.0 |
| NPPFargo | Fargo | PVC pipe manufacturing | C | 3.0 |
| Ethosf-Ethos-Ethos Fargo | Fargo | HEALTH CARE | B | 3.0 |
| Altru Business Center | Grand Forks | General medical and surgical | A | 3.0 |
| Altru FMC, Home Care | Grand Forks | Family physicians' offices ( | B | 3.0 |
| Enclave Property Management | West Fargo | Property managing, residenti | F | 3.0 |
| Fessenden Coop Association | Fessenden | Grain elevators merchant who | D | 3.0 |
| 2693 Hornbacher's Village West, Fargo, ND | Fargo | Retail Grocery | C | 2.9 |
| Town Square | Grand Forks | Nursing homes | A | 2.9 |
| Altru Building 3 (Health Plan, WP) | Grand Forks | General medical and surgical | A | 2.9 |
| EH 7 Day Clinic Osgood | Fargo | Family physicians' offices ( | B | 2.9 |
| Tecta America Dakotas | Grand Forks | Low slope roofing installati | C | 2.9 |
| Devon Energy - Killdeer ND | Killdeer | Petroleum, crude, production | D | 2.9 |
| CDI Services | Wahpeton | Nozzles, aerosol spray, plas | C | 2.9 |
| Tecton Products, LLC - Fargo | Fargo | All Other Plastics Product M | C | 2.9 |
| 3130 Family Fare Mandan | Mandan | Supermarkets and Other Groce | C | 2.9 |
| Olympic Companies of ND | Fargo | Drywall contractors | C | 2.9 |
| Anchor Mechanical, LLC | Hillsboro | Mechanical contractors | C | 2.9 |
| Fargo Depot | Fargo | Bakery products, fresh (i.e. | C | 2.9 |
| 1783 - Grand Forks | Grand Forks | Discount Department Stores | C | 2.9 |
| 3130 Dan'S Mandan | Mandan | Supermarkets and Other Groce | C | 2.9 |
| RCX North Dakota | Enderlin | Contract Carrier Crew Transp | B | 2.8 |
| Farmers Union Oil Co. Of Kenmare | Kenmare | Farm supply stores | C | 2.8 |
| Farstad Oil Inc. | Minot | Fuel oil merchant wholesaler | D | 2.8 |
| Bethel Lutheran Nursing and Rehabilitation Center | Williston | Skilled nursing facilities | A | 2.8 |
| Williston Office | Williston | Electric power distribution | F | 2.8 |
| WTPS Fryburg | Bellfield | Loading and unloading servic | B | 2.8 |
| H&P IDC - U.S. Land - Dickinson | Dickinson | Drilling Oil and Gas Wells | D | 2.8 |
| Northern Improvement Company Bismarck | Bismarck | Repair, highway, road, stree | C | 2.8 |
| Marvin Modern - Fargo | Fargo | Awnings, rigid plastics or f | C | 2.8 |
| 3122 Family Fare Supermarkets 1st St Dickinson Nd - Name Change 8-27-14 | Dickinson | Supermarkets and Other Groce | C | 2.8 |
| Two Bit Rentals Inc. | Williston | Metal scrap and waste mercha | D | 2.8 |
| Elkhorn Construction, North Dakota Service Area | Williston | Compressor, metering and pum | C | 2.8 |
| ADESA Fargo | Fargo | Motor vehicle merchant whole | D | 2.8 |
| Fargo 140 | Fargo | - | B | 2.7 |
| Elm Crest Manor | New Salem | Skilled nursing facilities | A | 2.7 |
| Wahpeton-US-Production | Wahpeton | Seed processing, post-harves | B | 2.7 |
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.