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 12 of 16| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EPA | Washington | Vocational rehabilitation or | A | 0.8 |
| CISS Washington (DCWA24) | Washington | General warehousing and stor | A | 0.8 |
| USA Washington 1908 L St Northwest | Washington | Rental Car | B | 0.8 |
| 104902 - WMATA Yellow Line Tunnel & Bridge Rehab | Washington | Construction management, wat | A | 0.8 |
| 2020146 - WMATA Bladensburg Bus Garage Replacement | Washington | Addition, alteration and ren | A | 0.7 |
| Sodexo at District of Columbia Public Schools | Washington | Food Service Contractors | A | 0.7 |
| Children's National Medical Center Maryland | Washington | General medical and surgical | A | 0.7 |
| HSC Home Care, LLC | Washington | Home care of elderly, medica | A | 0.7 |
| Courtyard Washington DC Capitol Hill Navy Yard | Washington | Hotel management services | A | 0.6 |
| Sodexo at Dcps Cluster 9 | Washington | Food Service Contractors | A | 0.6 |
| DOL | Washington | Guard services | A | 0.6 |
| Sodexo at National Geographic Society | Washington | Food Service Contractors | A | 0.6 |
| Sodexo at Imf 19th St Janitorial | Washington | Janitorial Services | A | 0.6 |
| Sodexo at Knollwood | Washington | Food Service Contractors | A | 0.5 |
| Gallaudet Plaza | Washington | - | A | 0.5 |
| Chimes District of Columbia, Department of Commerce | Washington | Custodial services | A | 0.5 |
| Sodexo at U. S. House Food Service Operation | Washington | Food Service Contractors | A | 0.5 |
| Children'S National | Washington | - | A | 0.5 |
| District of Columbia | District of Columbia | Workstations, computer, manu | A | 0.5 |
| American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials- HQ | Washington | Stockyards (i.e., not for fa | A | 0.4 |
| DC Corporate Office | Washington | Equity real estate investmen | A | 0.4 |
| 2018125 - Martin Building Renovation & Expansion | Washington | Addition, alteration and ren | A | 0.4 |
| American Red Cross - 431 18th St Nw | Washington | - | A | 0.4 |
| YMCA Anthony Bowen | Washington | Fitness centers | A | 0.4 |
| 104944 - MECT - WMATA Platforms Rehab 4 | Washington | Electrical work | A | 0.4 |
| Dc - Hq | Washington | Marketing research services | B | 0.4 |
| Sodexo at Dcps Cluster 7 | Washington | Food Service Contractors | A | 0.4 |
| Chimes District of Columbia, Library of Congress | Washington | Custodial services | A | 0.3 |
| L'Enfant Plaza HQ | Washington | Mixed mode transit systems ( | A | 0.3 |
| Sodexo at Dcps Cluster 8 | Washington | Food Service Contractors | A | 0.3 |
| National League of Cities Inc | Washington | Business associations | A | 0.3 |
| ESPN Washington DC Office | Washington | Cable broadcasting networks | A | 0.3 |
| Control Risks Group LLC | Washington Dc | Administrative management co | B | 0.3 |
| Vanda Pharmaceuticals, Inc | Washington | Medicinal chemicals, uncompo | A | 0.3 |
| Sodexo at Dcps Cluster 3 | Washington | Food Service Contractors | A | 0.3 |
| Health Services for Children with Special Needs | Washington | Health insurance carriers, d | A | 0.2 |
| Sodexo at Dcps Cluster 6 | Washington | Food Service Contractors | A | 0.2 |
| Sodexo at Howard University Bethune | Washington | Food Service Contractors | A | 0.2 |
| Headquarters | Washington | Vocational rehabilitation or | A | 0.2 |
| Population Services International | Washington | Biological consulting servic | A | 0.2 |
| JLL Washington DC | Washington | Nonresidential property man | A | 0.2 |
| PEPCO- Edison Place | Washington | Distribution of electric pow | A | 0.1 |
| Corporate Office | Washington | Natural gas distribution sys | A | 0.1 |
| GW3 | Washington | Computer systems integration | A | 0.1 |
| Johnson and Johnson International Washington DC | Washington | Public Relations Agency | A | 0.1 |
| Varian, Washington DC | Washington Dc | Medical and surgical equipme | A | 0.0 |
| Washington | Washington | Distribution of electric pow | C | 0.0 |
| WGL DC - WGL Corporate HQ | Washington | Distribution of natural gas | C | 0.0 |
| Meridian on First II | Washington | Apartment building construct | C | 0.0 |
| 400 Florida Ave | Washington | Apartment building construct | C | 0.0 |
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.