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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 29 of 34| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| J-Mar Enterprises Inc. | West Fargo | General freight trucking, lo | A | 0.6 |
| Goodrich - Cargo Systems | Jamestown | Aircraft sub-assemblies and | A | 0.6 |
| Support Services Center-Fargo | Fargo | Facilities (except computer | A | 0.6 |
| Calfrac Well Services, Corp | Williston | Hydraulic fracturing wells o | A | 0.6 |
| The View | Minot | Assisted-living facilities w | A | 0.6 |
| 6458-ZFAR | Fargo | Local Messengers and Local D | A | 0.6 |
| Abs-0030-0030-00028 Fac-00028-Williston-Nd | Williston | Supermarkets and Other Groce | A | 0.6 |
| Badlands Contracting, LLC | Watford City | Contract services (except si | A | 0.6 |
| Indian Hills Liquids Management | Alexander | Oil, waste, merchant wholesa | A | 0.6 |
| ND,Fargo-Business Center-Office Administrative Services | Fargo | Administrative management se | A | 0.6 |
| Anova - Sheyenne Dakota LLC | West Fargo | Terminals and connectors for | A | 0.6 |
| Dickinson, ND OV106 | Dickinson | - | A | 0.6 |
| Reman Drivetrain Facility | West Fargo | Assembly line rebuilding of | A | 0.5 |
| Fargo IG | Fargo | - | A | 0.5 |
| Border States Electric - Fargo | Fargo | Construction materials, elec | A | 0.5 |
| Dickinson Agronomy / Energy | Dickinson | Farm Supplies Merchant Whole | A | 0.5 |
| Belfield | Belfield | Tanker trucking (e.g., chemi | A | 0.5 |
| NGAS-A588 | Emerado | Other Support Activities for | A | 0.5 |
| Benedictine Living Community - Garrison | Garrison | Skilled nursing facilities | A | 0.5 |
| 202 - Fargo | Fargo | - | A | 0.5 |
| Lonesome Dove | Tioga | Compressor, metering and pum | A | 0.4 |
| Border States Electric - Bismarck | Bismarck | Construction materials, elec | A | 0.4 |
| Hess Corporation - Minot | Minot | Petroleum, crude, production | A | 0.4 |
| General Office | Bismarck | Distribution of electric pow | A | 0.4 |
| 4054-000000028 | Williston | Supermarkets and Other Groce | A | 0.4 |
| Fargo Office | Fargo | Precast concrete products (e | A | 0.4 |
| Bison Transport USA - Grand Forks | Grand Forks | Motor freight carrier, gener | A | 0.4 |
| Arnegard, ND | Arnegard | Pipeline, gas and oil, const | A | 0.4 |
| Hams Well Service Inc. | Westhope | Well servicing, oil and gas | A | 0.4 |
| Continental Resources - Killdeer, ND | Killdeer | Petroleum, crude, production | A | 0.3 |
| Hess Corporation - Tioga | Tioga | Petroleum, crude, production | A | 0.3 |
| Simonson Lumber - Grand Forks | Grand Forks | Building materials supply de | A | 0.3 |
| Dickinson Refinery | Dickinson | All Other Petroleum and Coal | A | 0.3 |
| Williston, ND | Williston | Industrial chemicals merchan | A | 0.3 |
| Basin Electric Power Cooperative - Headquarters Office | Bismarck | Electric power transmission | A | 0.3 |
| Headquarters | Fargo | Construction and Mining (exc | A | 0.3 |
| Mandan Refinery | Mandan | Petroleum Refineries | A | 0.2 |
| Petroleum Experience, Inc. | Williston | Directional drilling of oil | A | 0.2 |
| Wolla Oilfield Services | Williston | Agricultural products trucki | A | 0.2 |
| SRC | West Fargo | Sales and Support of Agricul | A | 0.2 |
| 3060_5900 | Grand Forks | - | A | 0.2 |
| Edgewood Grand Forks LLC | Grand Forks | Assisted-living facilities w | A | 0.2 |
| Wolla Trucking | Williston | Agricultural products trucki | A | 0.1 |
| Corporate | Fargo | Construction and Mining, exc | A | 0.1 |
| Neset Consulting Service Inc | Tioga | Geophysical exploration (exc | A | 0.1 |
| Field Support Office Fargo | Fargo | Centralized administrative o | A | 0.1 |
| Miller Insulation Fargo Branch | Fargo | Insulation contractors | A | 0.1 |
| MMR Constructors, Inc. - North Dakota Operations | Williston | Electrical contractors | A | 0.1 |
| Goodrich Corporation (Jamestown ND) | Jamestown | Aircraft sub-assemblies and | A | 0.1 |
| Dickinson, ND | Dickinson | Electric power generation, t | A | 0.0 |
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.