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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 22 of 30| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NA-US-DE-Newark-Executive Drive | Newark | Solar Construction and Desig | B | 1.8 |
| Savage Services - Delaware City Refinery | Delaware City | Crude petroleum refineries | B | 1.7 |
| 10 Wilmington | Wilmington | General medical and surgical | A | 1.7 |
| GEORGETOWN_1364650 | Georgetown | Mail and Parcel Delivery | A | 1.7 |
| HandyTube Corporation | Camden | Tubing, mechanical and hypod | B | 1.7 |
| Retail - Laurel | Laurel | 442110 Furniture Stores | A | 1.7 |
| Ben Franklin Plumbing | Wilmington | Plumbing contractors | B | 1.7 |
| Herr Foods - 072 Seaford DE | Seaford | Snack Food Manufacturer | A | 1.7 |
| Romer Labs - Newark, DE | Newark | Diagnostic substances, in-vi | A | 1.6 |
| Polymer Technologies Inc | Newark | Polyurethane foam products m | A | 1.6 |
| Noramco | Wilmington | Facilities Support Services | B | 1.6 |
| 845 | Dover | Convenience Stores | A | 1.6 |
| Milford Plant | Milford | Poultry Processing | A | 1.6 |
| Charles Messina Plumbing & Electric Co | Dover | Electric contracting | B | 1.6 |
| REN034 Delmarva | Bridgeville | Exterminating and Pest Contr | A | 1.6 |
| Energy Center Dover, LLC | Dover | Electric power generation, f | D | 1.6 |
| Christiana Store | Laurel | Furniture Stores | A | 1.6 |
| 6921-00336 | Millsboro | Supermarkets and Other Groce | A | 1.6 |
| Master Interiors, Inc. | Newark | Acoustical ceiling tile and | B | 1.6 |
| 840 | New Castle | Convenience Stores | A | 1.6 |
| Ruppert Landscape - Delaware | Dagsboro | Landscape care and maintenan | A | 1.6 |
| Middletown DE Yard | Middletown | Other Building Material Deal | A | 1.6 |
| Johnny Janosik Store | Laurel | Furniture Stores | A | 1.6 |
| 870 | Bear | Convenience Stores | A | 1.5 |
| Headquarters - Delaware Office | New Castle | Janitorial services, aircraf | A | 1.5 |
| Miner - New Castle, DE | New Castle | Garage doors, metal, manufac | A | 1.5 |
| Waste Industries of Delaware LLC | New Castle | Waste Collection | B | 1.5 |
| Milford DE DE | Milford | Farm Supplies Merchant Whole | B | 1.5 |
| IFF | Newark | Natural nonfood coloring, ma | A | 1.5 |
| 823 | Bear | Convenience Stores | A | 1.5 |
| M Cubed Technologies, Inc | Newark | Electrical insulators, ceram | A | 1.5 |
| 70331 | Milford | - | B | 1.5 |
| 7433_17109 | New Castle | - | A | 1.5 |
| Healy Long & Jevin, Inc. | Wilmington | Foundation, building, poured | B | 1.5 |
| 1610 Newark De | Newark | Home Centers | A | 1.5 |
| Air Liquide Advanced Solutions | Newport | Industrial gases manufacturi | A | 1.5 |
| STTC Seaford | Seaford | Automotive tire repair (exce | B | 1.5 |
| Rogers Corporation - Bear Delaware | Bear | Laminated plastics plate, ro | A | 1.5 |
| Joseph Rizzo & Sons Construction Co. - DE | New Castle | Masonry | B | 1.4 |
| Concord 162 | Wilmington | Retail | A | 1.4 |
| Intervet Inc. (DBA - Merck AH) - Millsboro Sites | Millsboro | Virus vaccines manufacturing | A | 1.4 |
| Wawa Site - 859 | Middletown | Convenience Store | A | 1.4 |
| J.F. Sobieski Mechanical Contractors, Inc. | Newark | Heating, ventilation and air | B | 1.4 |
| Seaford DE Hatchery | Seaford | Chicken hatcheries | A | 1.4 |
| Bravo! Building Services Regional Bbsde | New Castle | Janitorial services | A | 1.4 |
| Artesian Water Company, Inc.- Newark Establishment | Newark | Water supply systems | C | 1.4 |
| DPL- Millsboro | Millsboro | Distribution of electric pow | C | 1.4 |
| Sodexo at Chase Center on the Riverfront | Wilmington | Food Service Contractors | A | 1.4 |
| Middletown DE DC | Middletown | Storage Battery Manufacturin | A | 1.4 |
| Nai-0035-0035-01763 Fac-01763-Dover-De | Dover | Supermarkets and Other Groce | A | 1.4 |
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.