Academies, college or university · Nevada

University of Nevada, Reno

Reno, NV · ~7,096 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
1.4
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

University of Nevada, Reno runs at 98% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Academies, college or university workplace, earning a grade C.

University of Nevada, Reno: 1.4 TCR = 98% of Academies, college or university BLS 1.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

University of Nevada, Reno safety composite

University of Nevada, Reno scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 33%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

D

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 1.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% of industry peers

DART rate
F 0.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

University of Nevada, Reno held a steady TCR band

University of Nevada, Reno's TCR held near 0.1 from 1.4 in 2022 to 1.3 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 1.4 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.58× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=1.4 · 2023=1.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 611310 · Reno, NV AT/BELOW-IND · LARGE

Grade C · TCR 1.4 · 98% of ind

  • DART 0.8 DART
  • RANK #8/12
  • PHOTO Mesabi Range College
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 119 inj
  • SIZE ~7,096 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Mesabi Range College (0.0 TCR gap)

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University of Nevada, Reno in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows University of Nevada, Reno averages 1.4 TCR (98% of the Academies, college or university BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

University of Nevada, Reno TCR series: 2022=1.4 · 2023=1.3 · BLS 1.4

Where University of Nevada, Reno falls in its industry

347 Academies, college or universi establishments

Safer than 54% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Nevada alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 12 Academies, college or universi employers in Nevada.

University of Nevada, Reno (7,096 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 617 employees and a TCR of 1.5 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 02,0004,0006,0008,00010,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate University of Nevada, Reno
University of Nevada, Reno (7,096 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 617 employees and a TCR of 1.5

University of Nevada, Reno has more employees than the Academies, college or university median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.5. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2023 1.3 0.8 57 0 0
2022 1.4 0.7 62 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611310 · NV · Reno

347 Academies, college or university employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 4,574 rated employers in Nevada with headcount on file · 611 employers in Reno, NV · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Mesabi Range College 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tulane University-Uptown 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR School of Visual Arts LLC 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Union College 1.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Univeristy of Nevada, Reno 7,263 FTE
STATE-SIZE NA-US-NV-Sparks-Electric Avenue 7,272 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bellagio llc 6,383 FTE
STATE-SIZE CAESARS PALACE 6,301 FTE
CITY-NEAR Renown Regional Hospital 3,789 FTE
CITY-NEAR Renown Regional Medical Center 200 3,582 FTE
CITY-NEAR Caesars Entertainment Inc 2,531 FTE
CITY-NEAR Silver Legacy Resort Casino/Eldorado Hotel Casino/Circus Circus Reno 2,338 FTE
NAT-TCR Austen Riggs Center 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Brain and Spine Institute 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Mankato Motor Company 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR GEI 1.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hawthorne, CA 7,104 FTE
NAT-SIZE WA019 7,084 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dana Farber Cancer Institute 7,113 FTE
NAT-SIZE Supply Chain : Evendale, OH 7,118 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2023, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.