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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.

North Dakota grade distribution 1,694 graded establishments · width = share

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 TCR

North 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 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

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Employer CityIndustryGradeAvg 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
Pro Transport & Leasing, Inc. Grand Forks Tracked vehicle freight tran A 0.8
Corporate Bismarck General Freight Trucking A 0.8
Hancock Concrete Products- Devils Lake Devils Lake Pipe, concrete, manufacturin A 0.8
A670 Dickinson Dickinson Electric contracting A 0.8
Dickinson Dickinson Other Animal Food Manufactur A 0.8
Appareo Systems Fargo Altimeters, aeronautical, ma A 0.8
Continental Resources - Watford City, ND Watford City Petroleum, crude, production A 0.8
Ross Grain Elevator Ross Grain elevators merchant who A 0.8
Building Products Inc. of ND Fargo Shingles (except wood) merch 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
Dakota Gasification Company - BSL Beulah Multi Craft A 0.8
Arnett & Burgess Pipeliners (Rockies) LLC Watford City Compressor, metering and pum A 0.8
Ideal Aerosmith Grand Forks Acceleration indicators and A 0.8
Dakota Micro, Inc. Cayuga Camcorders manufacturing A 0.8
AG Retail Center New Town Convenience food with gasoli A 0.8
John Deere Intelligent Solutions Group Fargo Loaded computer boards manuf A 0.8
ND-WLS Williston Transportation A 0.8
Williston North Williston Mining machinery and equipme A 0.8
Montana Dakota Utilities Bismarck Gas, mixed natural and manuf B 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
Holland Enterprises, LLC Mapleton General freight trucking, lo A 0.7
Border States Electric - Grand Forks Grand Forks Construction materials, elec 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
Sun Electric Inc. Fargo Electric contracting A 0.7
Alexander Alexander Cleaning out (e.g., bailing A 0.7
Fargo Corporate Office Fargo Corporate offices C 0.7
Montana Dakota Utilities - Bismarck Service Center Bismarck Gas, mixed natural and manuf B 0.7
WTPS - Fryburg Belfield Loading and unloading servic A 0.7
RRC - Corporate Fargo Roasted nuts and seeds manuf A 0.7
Fargo Support Services Center Fargo Office management services 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
Integrity Windows and Doors South - West Fargo West Fargo Doors, wood and covered wood A 0.6
Wanzek Construction West Fargo Wind power structure constru A 0.6
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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.

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.