TCR, interpreted
Far above average
5.3 avg TCR
State profile · OSHA ITA
North Dakota workplace safety
How 1,696 OSHA-reporting employers across North Dakota compare on workplace injuries, 2016–2024. Average TCR uses the 1,450 establishments with a credible rate (see methodology).
- 1,696
- Employers
- 5.3
- Avg TCR (rated)
- 27,648
- Injuries (all)
- 18
- Fatalities (all)
North Dakota vs all states by OSHA-reporting employer count
Where this state's ITA establishment inventory sits among every tracked state and territory (coverage signal, not a safety ranking)
1,696 44th of 54 higher than 10 of 54 states
States and territories, banded by OSHA ITA reporting employer count
Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more states. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count and share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source official public datasets · 2026
The state picture
North Dakota's 1,450 rated 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 · rated subset
- 1,450
- rated employers
- 1,696
- all reporting employers
- 27,648
- recordable injuries (all)
Inventory counts and injury/fatality totals cover all 1,696 ITA establishments; the average TCR excludes zero-rate and corrupt-hours filings. See Methodology → Three Populations.
A · 14% B · 14% C · 29% D · 17% F · 26%
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.
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A second cut tells a different story: ranked by rated-subset injury rate alone, North Dakota is #32 of 54. Ranked instead by fatalities per rated employer establishment (same 1,450-employer subset), it's #16 of 54, a 16-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 on the same population 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. The published state average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 5.3 injuries per 100 full-time workers uses the 1,450 establishments with a credible rate (zero-rate and corrupt-hours filings stay in the inventory counts above but are excluded from the average, see methodology).
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 26 of 34| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plains Art Museum | Fargo | Art museums | A | 1.4 |
| Crosby Field | Ambrose | Oil and gas field developmen | B | 1.4 |
| Opp Construction | Grand Forks | Road construction | A | 1.4 |
| Arthur, ND | Arthur | Grain elevators merchant who | B | 1.4 |
| Montana Dakota Utilities - Williston, ND(2) | Williston | Gas, mixed natural and manuf | C | 1.3 |
| Thomsen Homes LLC | Fargo | Housing, single-family, cons | A | 1.3 |
| Coal Creek | Underwood | Electric power generation, f | C | 1.3 |
| Mckenzie Electric Cooperative | Watford City | Electric power distribution | C | 1.3 |
| Williston | Williston | Electrical wiring contractor | A | 1.3 |
| American Well service inc | Kenmare | Oil and gas field services ( | B | 1.3 |
| Industrial Builders Inc. | Fargo | Bridge construction | A | 1.3 |
| Yes, LLC | Dickinson | Electrical work | A | 1.3 |
| Cargill Agricultural Supply Chain - West Fargo | West Fargo | Sunflower seed oil, cake and | A | 1.3 |
| Korber Pharma Inc - Fargo | Fargo | Packaging machinery manufact | A | 1.3 |
| Bismarck Store | Bismarck | Construction and Mining, exc | B | 1.3 |
| Oasis Petroleum - North Dakota | Williston | Petroleum, crude, production | B | 1.3 |
| Marvin Windows and Doors - Grafton | Grafton | Wood Window and Door Manufac | A | 1.3 |
| 4186-03133 | Fargo | All Other General Merchandis | A | 1.3 |
| FedEx 1475 N 73RD ST | Grand Forks | Courier and Express Delivery | A | 1.3 |
| Killdeer Field Office | Killdeer | Petroleum, crude, production | B | 1.3 |
| BCS - Williston | Williston | Crane rental with operator | A | 1.3 |
| Minot West & East | Minot | Grain and Field Bean Merchan | B | 1.3 |
| Charlson Field | New Town | Oil and gas field developmen | B | 1.3 |
| MRY Station | Center | Electric power generation, f | C | 1.3 |
| Purity Midwest Headquarters | Williston | Contract services (except si | B | 1.3 |
| Cargill Corn Milling | Wahpeton | Sugar made by wet milling co | A | 1.3 |
| Fsg-North Dakota | Dickinson | Sand and gravel quarrying (i | B | 1.3 |
| US159: Fargo 385 - SG | Fargo | Fire sprinkler system instal | A | 1.3 |
| Devils Lake Main | Devils Lake | Grain and Field Bean Merchan | B | 1.3 |
| Paramount Builders Inc | Bismarck | Commercial building construc | A | 1.2 |
| AGT Foods - Bismarck | Bismarck | Raw farm products (except fi | B | 1.2 |
| 3123 Family Fare (Roughrider Rd, Dickinson ND) | Dickinson | Supermarkets and Other Groce | A | 1.2 |
| Wm 4569 | Bottineau | - | A | 1.2 |
| Power Generation Services | Bismark | Commercial and industrial ma | B | 1.2 |
| North Dakota Jobsites | Williston | Drilling gas and oil field w | B | 1.2 |
| Coyote Station | Beulah | Electric power generation, f | C | 1.2 |
| Garrison Main Office | Garrison | Grain and Field Bean Merchan | B | 1.2 |
| 685 Hornbachers-Northport (Sv 00503 | Fargo | SUPERMARKETS AND OTHER GROCE | A | 1.2 |
| Williston Terminal | Williston | Oil and gas field services ( | B | 1.2 |
| Fargo, ND HVAC | Fargo | - | A | 1.2 |
| Minot Office | Minot | Farm Supplies Merchant Whole | B | 1.2 |
| Copper Tip Energy Services | Williston | Oil and gas field services ( | B | 1.2 |
| Williston Nd - 3330 | Williston | Home Centers | A | 1.2 |
| Winn Construction, Inc. | Dickinson | Concrete pouring | A | 1.2 |
| Benz Oil Co., Inc. | Killdeer | Bulk stations, petroleum | B | 1.2 |
| Dakota Regional Medical Center | Cooperstown | Hospitals, general medical a | A | 1.2 |
| Maviro Inc - Mandan | Mandan | Industrial Services | A | 1.2 |
| Fargo Container | Fargo | - | A | 1.1 |
| Williston Brigade Energy Services | Williston | Well servicing, oil and gas | B | 1.1 |
| 104683 - Joslyn Art Museum - Addition + Reno | Omaha | Addition, alteration and ren | A | 1.1 |
Nationwide states with similar injury rates or employer scale
Two PlainSafetyScore-derived peer sets for North Dakota: nearest states and territories by rated-subset average Total Case Rate and by OSHA-reporting employer inventory. These are cross-state neighborhoods, not the employer list above.
Similar average TCR
Nearest states by rated-subset Total Case Rate (5.3 here).
Similar employer inventory
Nearest states by reporting employer count (1,696 here).
Look up a North Dakota employer → · Compare all states → · How TCR is measured →
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainSafetyScore
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.