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Delaware workplace safety
How 1,487 OSHA-reporting employers across Delaware compare on workplace injuries, 2016–2024.
- 1,487
- Employers
- 5.3
- Avg TCR
- 25,348
- Injuries
- 11
- Fatalities
The state picture
Delaware's reporting employers average 5.3 recordable injuries per 100 workers, 1.9 times the ~2.7 all-industry private-sector norm.
- 5.3
- avg TCR · per 100 workers
- 1,487
- employers reporting
- 25,348
- recordable injuries
- 11
- worker fatalities
State average reflects each state's industry mix. Sort the table below by each employer's own grade against its industry benchmark.
21% of Delaware's reporting establishments earn an F and 16% 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 Delaware ranks among states
54 states & territories by avg TCRDelaware's average TCR of 5.3 is lower than 57% 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, Delaware is #24 of 54. Ranked instead by fatalities per employer establishment, it's #4 of 54, a 20-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 Delaware Workplaces Compare
Delaware hosts 1,487 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 Delaware cohort, workers have logged 25,348 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 11 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 Delaware, 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 Delaware, by injury rate
Page 17 of 30| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nichols Nursery Inc | Newark | Excavation contractors | C | 3.1 |
| Sutton Bus & Truck Co Inc | Wilmington | Bus operation, school and em | B | 3.1 |
| Bethany Resort Furnishings | Bethany Beach | Furniture stores (e.g., hous | C | 3.1 |
| The Goodwill Center | Wilmington | Second-hand merchandise stor | C | 3.1 |
| 71074 | Newark | Department Stores | C | 3.1 |
| Rehoboth Beach_1379052 | Rehoboth Beach | Mail and Parcel Delivery | B | 3.1 |
| 271 | Lewes | Supermarket, Retail | C | 3.1 |
| 4186-01799 | Dover | Dollar Stores | C | 3.1 |
| 71162 | Wilmington | Department Stores | C | 3.1 |
| Eastern Shore Natural Gas | Dover | Distribution of natural gas | F | 3.1 |
| Greggo & Ferrara, Inc. Master | New Castle | Pavement, highway, road, str | C | 3.1 |
| Southern States Smyrna-Clayton Coop | Clayton | - | D | 3.1 |
| Evoqua Water Technologies, LLC - New Castle | New Castle | Water treatment and distribu | F | 3.1 |
| 0439 - Dna | Wilmington | Home Health Care | B | 3.1 |
| 6 Dock View Dr New Castle DE | New Castle | - | B | 3.1 |
| 841 | New Castle | convenience store | C | 3.1 |
| Unit # 0816 | Newark | Retail | C | 3.1 |
| Eastern States Construction Service, Inc. | Wilmington | Pavement, highway, road, str | C | 3.1 |
| 01385 - Store # 1385 Dover | Dover | Grocery Stores | C | 3.1 |
| 850 | Newark | Convenience Stores | C | 3.1 |
| Diamond State Masonry - DE | New Castle | Masonry | C | 3.0 |
| Bellmoor Inn & Spa | Rehoboth Beach | Hotels (except casino hotels | C | 3.0 |
| Herr Foods Inc. 72 | Seaford | Chips (e.g., corn, potato) m | D | 3.0 |
| Hagley Foundation/Eleutherian Mills | Wilmington | Historical museums | C | 3.0 |
| Sharp Energy - Dover | Dover | Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG | C | 3.0 |
| Interim Healthcare of Delaware, LLC | New Castle | Home health care agencies | B | 3.0 |
| 50 Christiana | Newark | General medical and surgical | A | 3.0 |
| Wawa Site - 823 | Bear | Convenience Store | C | 3.0 |
| 272 | Millsboro | Supermarket, Retail | C | 3.0 |
| Sodexo at Dupont Rennaisance | Wilmington | Food Service Contractors | C | 3.0 |
| Harry Caswell, INC. | Milldboro | Plumbing contractors | C | 3.0 |
| Unit #1832 | Wilmington | Retail | C | 3.0 |
| HG826 | Dover | Homefurnishings stores | C | 3.0 |
| 848 | Dover | Convenience Stores | C | 3.0 |
| 4021-500288100 | Newark | Food Services | C | 3.0 |
| A & H Metals Inc | Newark | Siding, sheet metal (except | C | 3.0 |
| Wawa Site - 868 | Newark | Convenience Store | C | 3.0 |
| 2153 | New Castle | Supermrkts & other grocery s | C | 3.0 |
| 0220 - Dps | Milford | Home Health Care | B | 3.0 |
| 272 Kirkwood | Wilmington | Department Store | C | 3.0 |
| 02230 - Store # 2230 Newark | Newark | Grocery Stores | C | 3.0 |
| 852 | New Castle | Convenience Stores | C | 3.0 |
| Sodexo at Dupont Hospital for Children | Wilmington | Food Service Contractors | C | 2.9 |
| 5472-000000817 | Bear | Supermarkets and Other Groce | C | 2.9 |
| NEWARK | Newark | Confectionery Merchant Whole | D | 2.9 |
| Chesapeake Utilities - Energy Lane | Dover | Distribution of natural gas | F | 2.9 |
| 5472-000007872 | Wilmington | Supermarkets and Other Groce | C | 2.9 |
| Hampton Inn Navy Yard | Washington | Hotels (except casino hotels | C | 2.9 |
| Redner's Warehouse Market West Dover | Dover | Grocery stores | C | 2.9 |
| Wilmington | New Castle | Passenger air transportation | B | 2.9 |
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
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What Delaware's safety record means for you
Delaware averages a TCR of 5.3 - about 1.9× 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.