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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 7 of 34| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RES | Williston | Oil well logging on a contra | F | 8.0 |
| TROLLWOOD_1385036 | Fargo | Mail and Parcel Delivery | D | 7.9 |
| North Dakota | Fargo | Warehouse | F | 7.9 |
| ND,Fargo-Sanford Ambulance-Ambulance Services | Fargo | Ambulance services, air or g | F | 7.9 |
| Truss Systems Inc. | Bismarck | Fencing, prefabricated secti | F | 7.9 |
| Grand Forks Nd | Grand Forks | Other Grocery and Related Pr | F | 7.9 |
| Prince of Peace | Ellendale | - | F | 7.9 |
| 4186-06366 | Fargo | Dollar Stores | F | 7.9 |
| Amity | Fargo | Harvesting machinery and equ | F | 7.9 |
| Spee-Dee Delivery Service, Inc. - Bismarck | Bismarck | Delivery service (except as | D | 7.9 |
| RDO Truck Center- Fargo | Fargo | Truck repair shops, general | F | 7.8 |
| BMC-Devils Lake | Devils Lake | Construction machinery and e | F | 7.8 |
| Asplin Excavating, Inc. | Fargo | Backfilling, construction | F | 7.8 |
| Fargo Truss Systems | West Fargo | Trusses, wood roof or floor, | F | 7.8 |
| Hugo's #10 | Grafton | Grocery stores | F | 7.8 |
| Malach USA, LLP | Valley City | Fabricated structural metal | F | 7.8 |
| 3648 | Bismarck | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | F | 7.7 |
| PKG Contracting, Inc. - Fargo WWTF | Fargo | Construction management, wat | F | 7.7 |
| Eventide Sheyenne Crossings - Assisted Living | West Fargo | Assisted-living facilities w | F | 7.7 |
| Eventide at Sheyenne Crossings | West Fargo | Nursing homes | C | 7.7 |
| Wallwork Truck Center Minot | Minot | Automobile merchant wholesal | F | 7.7 |
| Northern Plains Equipment - Minot | Minot | Agricultural implements merc | F | 7.7 |
| Napoleon Care Center | Napoleon | Nursing homes | C | 7.6 |
| West Plains Inc. Dickinson | Dickinson | Agricultural implements merc | F | 7.6 |
| Store 0116 | Grand Forks | General Merchandise Stores | F | 7.6 |
| 4902 - McKenzie Truss Plant | Mckenzie | Truss Manufacturing | F | 7.6 |
| Sungold - Horace | Horace | Nuts, kernels and seeds, roa | D | 7.6 |
| Uglem Ness Company | Northwood | Agricultural machinery and e | F | 7.5 |
| 4535-0166 | Grand Forks | Retail/Home Furnishings | F | 7.5 |
| West River Health Services | Hettinger | General medical and surgical | C | 7.5 |
| Luther Family Ford | Fargo | New car dealers | F | 7.5 |
| 2037 Fargo Produce | Fargo | Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Me | F | 7.5 |
| 885_1895 | Omaha | - | D | 7.5 |
| Supervalu Distribution Center - Fargo 31411 | Fargo | GENERAL-LINE GROCERIES MERCH | F | 7.5 |
| Main Office | Mapleton | Fabricated structural metal | F | 7.5 |
| 378816-Valley City Po | Valley City | Mail and Parcel Delivery | D | 7.5 |
| Pride NISH | Bismarck | Building cleaning services, | D | 7.5 |
| 1567 | Dickinson | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | F | 7.5 |
| Colgate | Colgate | Dried foods (e.g., fruits, m | F | 7.4 |
| 3J US Food Bismarck | Bismarck | Groceries, general-line, mer | F | 7.4 |
| SHop | Wahpeton | Manufacturing building const | F | 7.4 |
| TNE - Grafton | Grafton | Agricultural machinery and e | F | 7.4 |
| Main | Fargo | Commercial and Institutional | F | 7.4 |
| Agricover | Jamestown | Pickup canopies, caps, or co | F | 7.4 |
| SMP Health- St. Kateri | Rolla | Hospitals, general medical a | C | 7.3 |
| Valley Service Mechanical, LLC | West Fargo | HVAC and Plumbing contractor | F | 7.3 |
| NPS (Northern Plains Steel) | Fargo | Metals service centers | F | 7.3 |
| Reviva - Engine Rebuilders | Oakes | Diesel and semidiesel engine | F | 7.3 |
| Northland Truss Systems - Aber | Abercrombie | Roof trusses, wood, manufact | F | 7.3 |
| Menoken Pipe & Precast | Menoken | Concrete product manufacturi | F | 7.3 |
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.