Top 10 Most Dangerous US Industries by OSHA Total Case Rate
PlainSafetyScore ranks 1,075 NAICS industries by average OSHA Total Case Rate, the standard recordable-injury rate per 100 full-time workers.
Research · OSHA ITA
Original data research from the PlainSafetyScore editorial team. Every number here is pulled directly from our live database; nothing is hardcoded.
According to the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration's Injury Tracking Application, as of May 2026 nearly 500,000 employers had filed OSHA Form 300A injury summaries covering 2016 through 2024, every one of them graded here using the Total Case Rate methodology described on our methodology page.
PlainSafetyScore ranks 1,075 NAICS industries by average OSHA Total Case Rate, the standard recordable-injury rate per 100 full-time workers.
PlainSafetyScore ranks all 54 US states and territories by the average OSHA Total Case Rate across reporting employers.
PlainSafetyScore ranks 497,821 reporting employers by total OSHA Form 300A fatality count across all reporting years.