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
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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 28 of 34| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Red Trail Energy | Glen Ullin | Denatured alcohol manufactur | A | 0.9 |
| Big Top Bingo | Fargo | Bingo halls | A | 0.9 |
| 0072-HES Williston | Williston | Servicing oil and gas wells | A | 0.9 |
| Wanzek Construction | Fargo | Substation and switching sta | A | 0.9 |
| Cardinal IG -Fargo IG | Fargo | Manufacturing | A | 0.9 |
| A670 Dickinson | Dickinson | Electric contracting | A | 0.8 |
| Hancock Concrete Products- Devils Lake | Devils Lake | Pipe, concrete, manufacturin | A | 0.8 |
| Corporate | Bismarck | General Freight Trucking | A | 0.8 |
| Pro Transport & Leasing, Inc. | Grand Forks | Tracked vehicle freight tran | A | 0.8 |
| Dickinson | Dickinson | Other Animal Food Manufactur | A | 0.8 |
| Continental Resources - Watford City, ND | Watford City | Petroleum, crude, production | A | 0.8 |
| Appareo Systems | Fargo | Altimeters, aeronautical, ma | A | 0.8 |
| Building Products Inc. of ND | Fargo | Shingles (except wood) merch | A | 0.8 |
| Ross Grain Elevator | Ross | Grain elevators merchant who | A | 0.8 |
| DGS Aviation Services : BIS - Bismarck | Bismarck | Support Activities for Air T | A | 0.8 |
| Valley Express, Inc. | Mapleton | Grain hauling, long-distance | A | 0.8 |
| Edgewood Management Group, LLC | Grand Forks | Assisted-living facilities w | A | 0.8 |
| Arnett & Burgess Pipeliners (Rockies) LLC | Watford City | Compressor, metering and pum | A | 0.8 |
| Dakota Gasification Company - BSL | Beulah | Multi Craft | A | 0.8 |
| Ideal Aerosmith | Grand Forks | Acceleration indicators and | A | 0.8 |
| Dakota Micro, Inc. | Cayuga | Camcorders manufacturing | A | 0.8 |
| John Deere Intelligent Solutions Group | Fargo | Loaded computer boards manuf | A | 0.8 |
| AG Retail Center | New Town | Convenience food with gasoli | A | 0.8 |
| ND-WLS | Williston | Transportation | A | 0.8 |
| Montana Dakota Utilities | Bismarck | Gas, mixed natural and manuf | B | 0.8 |
| Williston North | Williston | Mining machinery and equipme | A | 0.8 |
| Triangle Electric, Inc. | Williston | Electrical, electrical wirin | A | 0.8 |
| Miller Insulation Williston Branch | Williston | Insulation contractors | A | 0.7 |
| Cardinal IG - Fargo IG | Fargo | Manufacturing | A | 0.7 |
| West Fargo, ND | West Fargo | Support Activities for Crop | A | 0.7 |
| L&K Electric | Williston | Low voltage electrical work | A | 0.7 |
| Acme Tools - Corporate Office | Grand Forks | Hardware stores | A | 0.7 |
| Fargo ND Branch | Fargo | Plumbing and heating contrac | A | 0.7 |
| Border States Electric - Grand Forks | Grand Forks | Construction materials, elec | A | 0.7 |
| Holland Enterprises, LLC | Mapleton | General freight trucking, lo | A | 0.7 |
| Continental Resources - Epping, ND | Epping | Petroleum, crude, production | A | 0.7 |
| Grand Forks Service Center | Grand Forks | Electric Power Distribution | B | 0.7 |
| Wood Group USA Inc., North Dakota Service Area | Williston | Compressor, metering and pum | A | 0.7 |
| Valence Natural Gas Solutions LLC | Williston | Residue gas production | A | 0.7 |
| Alexander | Alexander | Cleaning out (e.g., bailing | A | 0.7 |
| Sun Electric Inc. | Fargo | Electric contracting | A | 0.7 |
| Montana Dakota Utilities - Bismarck Service Center | Bismarck | Gas, mixed natural and manuf | B | 0.7 |
| Fargo Corporate Office | Fargo | Corporate offices | C | 0.7 |
| RRC - Corporate | Fargo | Roasted nuts and seeds manuf | A | 0.7 |
| WTPS - Fryburg | Belfield | Loading and unloading servic | A | 0.7 |
| Fargo Support Services Center | Fargo | Office management services | A | 0.6 |
| Wanzek Construction | West Fargo | Wind power structure constru | A | 0.6 |
| Integrity Windows and Doors South - West Fargo | West Fargo | Doors, wood and covered wood | A | 0.6 |
| John Deere Electronic Solutions | Fargo | Loaded computer boards manuf | A | 0.6 |
| General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. - Grand Forks | Grand Forks | Aircraft manufacturing | A | 0.6 |
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.