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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 23 of 30| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fifer Orchards, Inc. | Wyoming | Fruit and tree nut combinati | A | 1.4 |
| DENTSPLY Sirona - Lakeview | Milford | Manufacturing | A | 1.4 |
| PS - Middletown, DE Plant | Middletown | Lead Acid Battery Manufactur | A | 1.4 |
| Wawa Site - 854 | Claymont | Convenience Store | A | 1.4 |
| Eastern Shore Poultry | Georgetown | Poultry (e.g., canned, cooke | 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 |
| Sodexo at Af-Dover Patterson Dfac | Dover | Food Service Contractors | A | 1.3 |
| 2288-0417 | Wilmington | Structural Pest Control | A | 1.3 |
| DiSabatino Construction Company | Wilmington | General Contractor | A | 1.3 |
| Newport | Newport | Laboratory analytical instru | A | 1.3 |
| Contractors Hauling | New Castle | Dump trucking (e.g., gravel, | A | 1.3 |
| Invista Seaford Site | Seaford | Nylon fibers and filaments m | A | 1.3 |
| HG753 | Newark | Homefurnishings stores | A | 1.3 |
| Growmark Fs LLC | Milford | Agricultural chemicals merch | B | 1.3 |
| Craig Technologies, Inc. | Seaford | Annular ball bearings manufa | A | 1.3 |
| Rinker - Phlcp | Middletown | Concrete Pipe Manufacturing | A | 1.3 |
| Road Site Construction, Inc. | Lewes | Swimming pool, outdoor, cons | A | 1.3 |
| De63 Process Instruments | Newark | Manufacture of Process Instr | A | 1.3 |
| Delstar Technologies | Middletown | Tube, nonrigid plastics, man | 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 |
| Fitzgerald Salvage & Recycling | Lincoln | Scrap materials (e.g., autom | B | 1.2 |
| Salisbury/Wilmington HVAC | Wilmington | - | A | 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 |
| Millsboro Grain Facility | Millsboro | Grain elevators merchant who | B | 1.2 |
| Dot Transportation, Inc. Bear, Delaware | Bear | Bulk mail truck transportati | A | 1.2 |
| Hologic Inc. | Newark | Medical radiation therapy eq | A | 1.2 |
| Asf 089 | Bear | Furniture stores (e.g., hous | A | 1.2 |
| IG Burton of Lewes | Lewes | Automobile dealers, new only | A | 1.1 |
| VisionQuest Delaware Programs | Wilmington | Social service agencies, fam | A | 1.1 |
| D3-Christiana Showroom | Newark | Furniture Retail Store | A | 1.1 |
| Spacecon LLC | New Castle | Drywall contractors | 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 |
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.