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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 3 of 34| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MDM Construction LLC | West Fargo | Addition, alteration and ren | F | 12.3 |
| Minot Branch | Minot | Glazing contractors | F | 12.2 |
| JOB Erection & Engineering, Inc | Gwinner | Construction machinery and e | F | 12.2 |
| HG649 | West Fargo | Homefurnishings stores | F | 12.1 |
| Williston (Ndwil) | Williston | Courier Services Except by A | D | 12.1 |
| Heitkamp Construction Co., Inc. | Wahpeton | Factory construction | F | 12.1 |
| 5261_11906 | Fargo | - | F | 12.0 |
| Spee Dee Delivery Service, Inc - Bismarck | Bismarck | Delivery service (except as | F | 12.0 |
| Edgewood Minot | Minot | Assisted-living facilities w | F | 12.0 |
| Harris Machine Company | Oakes | Plate work (e.g., bending, c | F | 12.0 |
| Custom One Hour Heating & Air Conditioning | Grand Forks | Air system balancing and tes | F | 12.0 |
| Minot ND FXFE-MOT | Minot | Less Than Truckload General | F | 12.0 |
| CNH_Fargo | Fargo | Farm_Machinery_and_Equipment | F | 12.0 |
| Edgewood Memory Care | Minot | Assisted-living facilities w | F | 12.0 |
| Vocational Training Center | Fargo | Social service advocacy orga | F | 11.9 |
| Saxerud Inc | Lisbon | Land preparation machinery, | F | 11.9 |
| Hill Top Home Of Comfort Inc NP | Killdeer | Nursing homes | D | 11.8 |
| Turtle Lake Community Memorial Hospital | Turtle Lake | Hospitals, general medical a | D | 11.8 |
| FlexTM_Wahpeton | Wahpeton | Metal stampings (except auto | F | 11.8 |
| Turtle Mountain Pork | Souris | Hog and Pig Farming | F | 11.8 |
| Midwest Mechanical Construction | Fargo | Plumbing and heating contrac | F | 11.8 |
| 4918 - McKenzie Concrete Plant | Mckenzie | Concrete Block and Brick Man | F | 11.8 |
| Turf Tamers | Fargo | Seasonal property maintenanc | F | 11.7 |
| McKinnon Co. Inc. | Grand Forks | Fermented malt beverages mer | F | 11.7 |
| Golden Acres Manor | Carrington | Homes for the elderly with n | D | 11.7 |
| CCI - Construction Sites | Wahpeton | Commercial building construc | F | 11.6 |
| Hugo's #12 | Grand Forks | Supermarkets | F | 11.6 |
| Arrow Cleaning and Restoration Inc. | Bisamarck | Fire and flood restoration, | F | 11.6 |
| Luther Memorial Home | Mayville | Long term care | D | 11.5 |
| Nelson International - Fargo | Fargo | Truck trailer body shops | F | 11.5 |
| Precison Equipment Mfg | Fargo | Flatbed trailers, commercial | F | 11.4 |
| Polar Service Center - Killdeer | Killdeer | Truck repair shops, general | F | 11.4 |
| Farmers Union Oil Company of Berthold/Carpio | Berthold | Gasoline stations with conve | F | 11.3 |
| Northwest Truck and Trailer | Fargo | Truck trailer merchant whole | F | 11.3 |
| Amber Waves Inc | Richardton | Bins, light gauge metal, man | F | 11.3 |
| Minot Health and Rehab | Minot | Skilled nursing facilities | D | 11.3 |
| WAHPETON_1386154 | Wahpeton | Mail and Parcel Delivery | F | 11.2 |
| Bobcat Doosan Wahpeton | Wahpeton | Construction machinery manuf | F | 11.2 |
| Eastside Machine Co | Fargo | Machine Shops | F | 11.1 |
| Consolidated Construction Co., Inc. ND | Bismarck | Commercial building construc | F | 11.1 |
| Nordic Fiberglass, Inc. | Devils Lake | Insulators, electrical (exce | F | 11.1 |
| Minot AFB Galley | Minot | Rehabilitation job counselin | F | 11.1 |
| Bobcat Doosan Bismarck | Bismarck | Construction machinery manuf | F | 11.0 |
| YMI Industries, LLC | Grand Forks | Metal stampings (except auto | F | 11.0 |
| Minot (Ndmin) | Minot | Courier Services Except by A | D | 11.0 |
| Great Plains Food Bank | Fargo | Food banks | F | 10.9 |
| Golden Manor Inc | Steele | Homes for the aged with nurs | D | 10.9 |
| Simonson Lumber - Fargo | Fargo | Building materials supply de | F | 10.8 |
| Western Horizons Living Centers | Hettinger | Skilled nursing facilities | D | 10.8 |
| Rogue Plumbing and Heating, Inc. | Grand Forks | Plumbing contractors | F | 10.8 |
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.