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 23 of 30| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DENTSPLY Sirona - Lakeview | Milford | Manufacturing | A | 1.4 |
| Nai-0035-0035-01763 Fac-01763-Dover-De | Dover | Supermarkets and Other Groce | A | 1.4 |
| PS - Middletown, DE Plant | Middletown | Lead Acid Battery Manufactur | A | 1.4 |
| Eastern Shore Poultry | Georgetown | Poultry (e.g., canned, cooke | A | 1.4 |
| Wawa Site - 854 | Claymont | Convenience Store | A | 1.4 |
| Homewood Suites Wilmington | Wilmington | Hotels (except casino hotels | A | 1.4 |
| Fujifilm Imaging Colorants, Inc. | New Castle | Printing inks manufacturing | A | 1.4 |
| Sharp Energy - Georgetown | Georgetown | Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG | A | 1.4 |
| Waste Industries of Delaware LLC 2 | Millsboro | Waste Collection | B | 1.4 |
| Mid-Atlantic Dismantlement Corporation | Dover | Demolition contractor | A | 1.4 |
| Dover 10534 | Dover | Plasma Center | A | 1.4 |
| De00000045 Goodwill Industries - Rodney | Dover | Used Merchandise Stores | A | 1.3 |
| 2288-0417 | Wilmington | Structural Pest Control | A | 1.3 |
| Sodexo at Af-Dover Patterson Dfac | Dover | Food Service Contractors | A | 1.3 |
| DiSabatino Construction Company | Wilmington | General Contractor | A | 1.3 |
| Invista Seaford Site | Seaford | Nylon fibers and filaments m | A | 1.3 |
| Newport | Newport | Laboratory analytical instru | A | 1.3 |
| Contractors Hauling | New Castle | Dump trucking (e.g., gravel, | A | 1.3 |
| HG753 | Newark | Homefurnishings stores | A | 1.3 |
| Rinker - Phlcp | Middletown | Concrete Pipe Manufacturing | A | 1.3 |
| Craig Technologies, Inc. | Seaford | Annular ball bearings manufa | A | 1.3 |
| Growmark Fs LLC | Milford | Agricultural chemicals merch | B | 1.3 |
| Road Site Construction, Inc. | Lewes | Swimming pool, outdoor, cons | A | 1.3 |
| Delstar Technologies | Middletown | Tube, nonrigid plastics, man | A | 1.3 |
| De63 Process Instruments | Newark | Manufacture of Process Instr | A | 1.3 |
| Dedicated to Women | Dover | Obstetricians' offices (e.g. | A | 1.3 |
| Laurel Growout Office | Laurel | Support Activities For Anima | A | 1.3 |
| Clarios - Middletown DE | Middletown | Storage Battery Manufacturin | A | 1.3 |
| ACTS Retirement-Life Communities - Cokesbury Village | Hockessin | Continuing care retirement c | A | 1.3 |
| Salisbury/Wilmington HVAC | Wilmington | - | A | 1.2 |
| Fitzgerald Salvage & Recycling | Lincoln | Scrap materials (e.g., autom | B | 1.2 |
| Edgewell Personal Care | Dover | Sanitary Paper Product Manuf | A | 1.2 |
| 4392 | New Castle | Grocery Stores | A | 1.2 |
| Wawa Site - 853 | Smyrna | Convenience Store | A | 1.2 |
| Weitron, Newark Office | Newark | Refrigeration equipment and | B | 1.2 |
| Hologic Inc. | Newark | Medical radiation therapy eq | A | 1.2 |
| Millsboro Grain Facility | Millsboro | Grain elevators merchant who | B | 1.2 |
| Dot Transportation, Inc. Bear, Delaware | Bear | Bulk mail truck transportati | A | 1.2 |
| Asf 089 | Bear | Furniture stores (e.g., hous | A | 1.2 |
| Spacecon LLC | New Castle | Drywall contractors | A | 1.1 |
| IG Burton of Lewes | Lewes | Automobile dealers, new only | A | 1.1 |
| D3-Christiana Showroom | Newark | Furniture Retail Store | A | 1.1 |
| VisionQuest Delaware Programs | Wilmington | Social service agencies, fam | A | 1.1 |
| Bpf Enterprises Inc | Wilmington | FULL SERVICE RESTAURANT | A | 1.1 |
| Shureline Construction | Kenton | Industrial building (except | A | 1.1 |
| Elwyn Delaware | Wilmington | Intermediate care facilities | A | 1.1 |
| Gardner-Gibson Seaford | Seaford | Asphalt roofing coatings mad | A | 1.1 |
| 90 Riverside | Wilmington | MDs' (medical doctors, excep | A | 1.1 |
| Nickle Electrical Companies | Newark | Low voltage electrical work | A | 1.0 |
| DEL | Bear | Home builders, for-sale | A | 1.0 |
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).
Look up a Delaware employer → · Compare all states → · How TCR is measured →
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
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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.