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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 26 of 34| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plains Art Museum | Fargo | Art museums | A | 1.4 |
| Opp Construction | Grand Forks | Road construction | A | 1.4 |
| Arthur, ND | Arthur | Grain elevators merchant who | B | 1.4 |
| Crosby Field | Ambrose | Oil and gas field developmen | B | 1.4 |
| Thomsen Homes LLC | Fargo | Housing, single-family, cons | A | 1.3 |
| Montana Dakota Utilities - Williston, ND(2) | Williston | Gas, mixed natural and manuf | C | 1.3 |
| Williston | Williston | Electrical wiring contractor | A | 1.3 |
| Mckenzie Electric Cooperative | Watford City | Electric power distribution | C | 1.3 |
| Coal Creek | Underwood | Electric power generation, f | C | 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 |
| Marvin Windows and Doors - Grafton | Grafton | Wood Window and Door Manufac | A | 1.3 |
| Oasis Petroleum - North Dakota | Williston | Petroleum, crude, production | B | 1.3 |
| FedEx 1475 N 73RD ST | Grand Forks | Courier and Express Delivery | A | 1.3 |
| 4186-03133 | Fargo | All Other General Merchandis | A | 1.3 |
| Minot West & East | Minot | Grain and Field Bean Merchan | B | 1.3 |
| BCS - Williston | Williston | Crane rental with operator | A | 1.3 |
| Killdeer Field Office | Killdeer | Petroleum, crude, production | 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 |
| Devils Lake Main | Devils Lake | Grain and Field Bean Merchan | B | 1.3 |
| US159: Fargo 385 - SG | Fargo | Fire sprinkler system instal | A | 1.3 |
| Power Generation Services | Bismark | Commercial and industrial ma | B | 1.2 |
| AGT Foods - Bismarck | Bismarck | Raw farm products (except fi | B | 1.2 |
| Paramount Builders Inc | Bismarck | Commercial building construc | A | 1.2 |
| Wm 4569 | Bottineau | - | A | 1.2 |
| 3123 Family Fare (Roughrider Rd, Dickinson ND) | Dickinson | Supermarkets and Other Groce | A | 1.2 |
| Coyote Station | Beulah | Electric power generation, f | C | 1.2 |
| Garrison Main Office | Garrison | Grain and Field Bean Merchan | B | 1.2 |
| North Dakota Jobsites | Williston | Drilling gas and oil field w | B | 1.2 |
| 685 Hornbachers-Northport (Sv 00503 | Fargo | SUPERMARKETS AND OTHER GROCE | A | 1.2 |
| Minot Office | Minot | Farm Supplies Merchant Whole | B | 1.2 |
| Fargo, ND HVAC | Fargo | - | A | 1.2 |
| Williston Terminal | Williston | Oil and gas field services ( | 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 |
| Border States - Williston | Williston | Construction materials, elec | B | 1.1 |
| 104683 - Joslyn Art Museum - Addition + Reno | Omaha | Addition, alteration and ren | A | 1.1 |
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.