TCR, interpreted
Far above average
4.5 avg TCR
State profile · OSHA ITA
District of Columbia workplace safety
How 793 OSHA-reporting employers across District of Columbia compare on workplace injuries, 2016–2024. Average TCR uses the 596 establishments with a credible rate (see methodology).
- 793
- Employers
- 4.5
- Avg TCR (rated)
- 16,494
- Injuries (all)
- 8
- Fatalities (all)
District of Columbia 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)
793 51st of 54 higher than 3 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
District of Columbia's 596 rated reporting employers average 4.5 recordable injuries per 100 workers, 1.7 times the ~2.7 all-industry private-sector norm.
- 4.5
- avg TCR · rated subset
- 596
- rated employers
- 793
- all reporting employers
- 16,494
- recordable injuries (all)
Inventory counts and injury/fatality totals cover all 793 ITA establishments; the average TCR excludes zero-rate and corrupt-hours filings. See Methodology → Three Populations.
A · 16% B · 12% C · 40% D · 17% F · 15%
15% of District of Columbia'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 District of Columbia ranks among states
54 states & territories by avg TCRDistrict of Columbia's average TCR of 4.5 is lower than 85% 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, District of Columbia is #9 of 54. Ranked instead by fatalities per rated employer establishment (same 596-employer subset), it's #23 of 54, a 14-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 District of Columbia Workplaces Compare
District of Columbia hosts 793 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 District of Columbia cohort, workers have logged 16,494 recordable injuries. The published state average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 4.5 injuries per 100 full-time workers uses the 596 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 8 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 District of Columbia, 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 District of Columbia, by injury rate
Page 10 of 16| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Children's School Services | Washington | Children's hospitals, genera | A | 1.8 |
| Park Hyatt Washington | Washington | - | B | 1.8 |
| Sodexo at Department of Interior | Washington | Food Service Contractors | B | 1.8 |
| Sodexo at George Washington Hos-Starbuck | Washington | Food Service Contractors | B | 1.7 |
| 6993-69930017-000003 | Washington | Ready-mix concrete manufactu | B | 1.7 |
| Fairfield Inn and Suites | Washington | Hotels (except casino hotels | B | 1.7 |
| WCS Construction LLC | Washington | Condominium, multifamily, co | A | 1.7 |
| Dynamic Concepts inc. | Washington | Utility line (i.e., communic | B | 1.7 |
| Smithsn Amer Indian* | Washington | - | B | 1.7 |
| DCA | Washington | Aircraft janitorial services | A | 1.7 |
| KC Encore | Washington | - | B | 1.7 |
| St. Regis Washington DC | Washington | Hotel management services (i | B | 1.6 |
| Capital Gallery Bakery Cafe | Washington | Family restaurants, full ser | B | 1.6 |
| 674 - Chevy Chase Mens | Washington | Department stores | A | 1.6 |
| Bureau of Engraving and Printing DCF | Washington, D.C. | Offset printing (except book | A | 1.6 |
| B. Frank Joy LLC | Washington | Utility line (i.e., communic | B | 1.6 |
| Little Sisters Pr-DC | Washington | - | B | 1.6 |
| Columbia Woodworking - DC | Washington | Architectural woodwork and f | A | 1.6 |
| Bbb 11651 | Washington | Janitorial services | A | 1.6 |
| Sledge, LLC | Washington | Promoters of live performing | B | 1.6 |
| YMCA Calomiris Program Center | Washington | Membership associations, civ | B | 1.6 |
| Spring Valley #605 | Washington | Housewares stores | A | 1.6 |
| Eastern Branch Demolition | Washington | Building demolition | B | 1.6 |
| Sodexo at St Albans School for Boys Fac | Washington | janitorial Services | A | 1.6 |
| 14 Air Canada | Washington | Scheduled Passenger Air Tran | A | 1.6 |
| Carr Properties | Washington | Fiduciaries', real estate, o | C | 1.6 |
| Sodexo at Brookings Dining Room | Washington | Building Cleaning/Maintenanc | A | 1.6 |
| Newseum* | Washington | - | B | 1.6 |
| Bardon Inc, DBA Aggregate Industries | Washington | Ready-mix concrete manufactu | A | 1.5 |
| Chimes District of Columbia, Department of the Interior | Washington | Custodial services | A | 1.5 |
| The Wharf | Washington | - | B | 1.5 |
| Protocol | Washington | - | B | 1.5 |
| Miller and Long DC | Washington | Foundation, building, poured | B | 1.5 |
| Sodexo at Howard University Blackburn | Washington | Food Service Contractors | A | 1.5 |
| Sodexo at Nas - Constitution Ave | Washington | Food Service Contractors | A | 1.5 |
| Sodexo at Imf Central Move Adds | Washington | Building Cleaning/Maintenanc | A | 1.5 |
| Construction | Washington | Iron work, structural, contr | B | 1.5 |
| WBG Catering | Washington | - | A | 1.5 |
| Office of Human Resources Management | Washington | Police departments (except A | A | 1.5 |
| Goldin & Stafford, Inc. Job Site | Washington | Excavation contractors | B | 1.5 |
| Meridian at Gallery Place | Washington | Apartment building rental or | C | 1.5 |
| Museum of the Bible (MOTB) | Washington | Museums | A | 1.5 |
| Nai-0035-0035-02808 Fac-02808-Washington-Dc | Washington | Supermarkets and Other Groce | A | 1.4 |
| Sodexo at Fannie Mae | Washington | Food Service Contractors | A | 1.4 |
| PEPCO- Benning Service Center | Washington | Distribution of electric pow | C | 1.4 |
| Pro Air Inc. | Washington | Plumbing and heating contrac | B | 1.4 |
| Bolling Commissary Grocery Retail | Bolling Afb | Grocery stores | A | 1.4 |
| GWU Shenkman Hall | Washington | - | A | 1.4 |
| Menus - Kitchen | Washington | - | A | 1.4 |
| 109825-Facilities Program Management | Washington | Mail and Parcel Delivery | A | 1.3 |
Nationwide states with similar injury rates or employer scale
Two PlainSafetyScore-derived peer sets for District of Columbia: 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 (4.5 here).
Similar employer inventory
Nearest states by reporting employer count (793 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.