TCR, interpreted
Far above average
5.3 avg TCR
State profile · OSHA ITA
Delaware workplace safety
How 1,487 OSHA-reporting employers across Delaware compare on workplace injuries, 2016–2024. Average TCR uses the 1,289 establishments with a credible rate (see methodology).
- 1,487
- Employers
- 5.3
- Avg TCR (rated)
- 25,348
- Injuries (all)
- 11
- Fatalities (all)
Delaware vs all states by OSHA-reporting employer count
Where this state's ITA establishment inventory sits among every tracked state and territory (coverage signal, not a safety ranking)
1,487 49th of 54 higher than 5 of 54 states
States and territories, banded by OSHA ITA reporting employer count
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Source official public datasets · 2026
The state picture
Delaware's 1,289 rated 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 · rated subset
- 1,289
- rated employers
- 1,487
- all reporting employers
- 25,348
- recordable injuries (all)
Inventory counts and injury/fatality totals cover all 1,487 ITA establishments; the average TCR excludes zero-rate and corrupt-hours filings. See Methodology → Three Populations.
A · 16% B · 11% C · 32% D · 20% F · 21%
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.
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A second cut tells a different story: ranked by rated-subset injury rate alone, Delaware is #24 of 54. Ranked instead by fatalities per rated employer establishment (same 1,289-employer subset), 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 on the same population 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. The published state average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 5.3 injuries per 100 full-time workers uses the 1,289 establishments with a credible rate (zero-rate and corrupt-hours filings stay in the inventory counts above but are excluded from the average, see methodology).
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 21 of 30| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sodexo at Dsu Conrad Cafe | Dover | Food Service Contractors | B | 2.0 |
| Ws1 De | New Castle | Warehousing (including forei | A | 2.0 |
| Recommunity Delaware LLC. | New Castle | Waste collection services, n | B | 2.0 |
| Ross store 1765 | Dover | Retail Store | B | 2.0 |
| ILC Dover | Frederica | Aircraft assemblies, subasse | B | 2.0 |
| 829 - Newark | Newark | Department stores | B | 2.0 |
| The Tss Group I LLC | Newark | MACHINE OR EQUIPMENT ERECTIO | B | 1.9 |
| Marlin Gas Services LLC | Dover | Automobile carrier trucking, | A | 1.9 |
| Blenheim Management Company | Newark | Construction management, sin | B | 1.9 |
| 272 - Kirkwood | Wilmington | - | B | 1.9 |
| Sodexo at Wilmington Trust Center | Wilmington | Food Service Contractors | B | 1.9 |
| Delmar, Delaware | Delmar | Refrigeration system (e.g., | B | 1.9 |
| Croda, Inc. Atlas Point | New Castle | Ethylene oxide manufacturing | B | 1.9 |
| Franklin Fibre Lamitex Corp | Wilmington | Laminated plastics plate, ro | B | 1.9 |
| Ruppert Landscape - Wilmington | Wilmington | Landscape care and maintenan | A | 1.9 |
| Battaglia Electric, Inc. | New Castle | Electrical contractors | B | 1.9 |
| 00879 - Store # 879 Delmar | Delmar | Grocery Stores | B | 1.9 |
| 715 | Dover | Drywall and Insulation Contr | B | 1.9 |
| Advanced Student Transportation, Inc. - ASTI - WILMINGTON | Wilmington, | Bus operation, school and em | A | 1.9 |
| REN034 | Bridgeville | EXTERMINATING AND PEST CONTR | A | 1.9 |
| Sonesta ES Suites Wilmington - Newark | Newark | Hotels (except Casino Hotels | B | 1.9 |
| GGA Construction | Middletown | Addition, alteration and ren | B | 1.9 |
| Wm 7734 | Smyrna | - | C | 1.9 |
| James Vaughn Correctional Center | Smyrna | Home nursing services, priva | A | 1.9 |
| Newark Hospice | Newark | Hospice care services, in ho | A | 1.9 |
| M1268 Gilpin Hall | Wilmington | - | B | 1.9 |
| Republic Services | Wilmington | Garbage collection services | B | 1.8 |
| Arby's 6134 | Harrington | Fast-food restaurants | B | 1.8 |
| First State Residential Living LLC | New Castle | Group homes, intellectual an | A | 1.8 |
| DEL0000300 The Goodwill Center | Wilmington | Vocational Rehabilitation Se | A | 1.8 |
| Dot Foods, Inc. Delaware | Bear | General-line groceries merch | C | 1.8 |
| Howard Young Correctional Institution | Wilmington | Home nursing services, priva | A | 1.8 |
| Eastern Highway Specialists, Inc | Wilmington | Overpass construction | B | 1.8 |
| Jamestown Painting and Decorating Inc. | Newark | Paint and wallpaper strippin | B | 1.8 |
| Bear Materials - Walther Road | Newark | Concrete batch plants (inclu | B | 1.8 |
| 02182 - Store # 02182 WILMINGTON | Wilmington | Grocery Stores | B | 1.8 |
| 100386 | Wilmington | - | B | 1.8 |
| 1294 | Milford | Supermrkts & other grocery s | B | 1.8 |
| Wawa Site - 874 | Seaford | Convenience Store | B | 1.8 |
| ALOFT AeroArchitects | Georgetown | Aircraft auxiliary parts (e. | B | 1.8 |
| 2904-SAS-DE | Any | Wholesale Trade Agents and B | C | 1.8 |
| 01369 - Store # 1369 Middletown | Middletown | Grocery Stores | B | 1.8 |
| 103 | Wilmington | General warehousing and stor | A | 1.8 |
| DPL-Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. | Wilmington | Gas, natural, distribution | D | 1.8 |
| East Coast Plumbing & HVAC, Inc. | Newark | Plumbing and heating contrac | B | 1.8 |
| Del0000020 Goodwill Industries - Bridgev | Bridgeville | Used Merchandise Stores | B | 1.8 |
| Bridgeville Feedmill | Bridgeville | Other Animal Food Manufactur | A | 1.8 |
| Seaford | Seaford | Motor Vehicle & Motor Vehicl | B | 1.8 |
| 1206 | Selbyville | Supermrkts & other grocery s | B | 1.8 |
| NA-US-DE-Newark-Executive Drive | Newark | Solar Construction and Desig | B | 1.8 |
Nationwide states with similar injury rates or employer scale
Two PlainSafetyScore-derived peer sets for Delaware: nearest states and territories by rated-subset average Total Case Rate and by OSHA-reporting employer inventory. These are cross-state neighborhoods, not the employer list above.
Similar average TCR
Nearest states by rated-subset Total Case Rate (5.3 here).
Similar employer inventory
Nearest states by reporting employer count (1,487 here).
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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainSafetyScore
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.