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Hawaii workplace safety
How 2,022 OSHA-reporting employers across Hawaii compare on workplace injuries, 2016–2024.
- 2,022
- Employers
- 5.3
- Avg TCR
- 30,820
- Injuries
- 16
- Fatalities
The state picture
Hawaii's reporting employers average 5.3 recordable injuries per 100 workers, 2.0 times the ~2.7 all-industry private-sector norm.
- 5.3
- avg TCR · per 100 workers
- 2,022
- employers reporting
- 30,820
- recordable injuries
- 16
- worker fatalities
State average reflects each state's industry mix. Sort the table below by each employer's own grade against its industry benchmark.
26% of Hawaii's reporting establishments earn an F and 13% 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 Hawaii ranks among states
54 states & territories by avg TCRHawaii's average TCR of 5.3 is lower than 49% 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, Hawaii is #28 of 54. Ranked instead by fatalities per employer establishment, it's #5 of 54, a 23-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 Hawaii Workplaces Compare
Hawaii hosts 2,022 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 Hawaii cohort, workers have logged 30,820 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 16 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 Hawaii, 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 Hawaii, by injury rate
Page 31 of 41| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Earthworks Pacific, Inc. | Lihue | Excavating, earthmoving, or | B | 1.6 |
| Honolulu Production | Honolulu | Beverage Distributor | B | 1.6 |
| MyCare Hawaii Inc. DBA Lanikai Juice | Honolulu | Beverages, fruit and vegetab | A | 1.6 |
| Pan-Pacific Mechanical Hawaii | Honolulu | Mechanical contractors | B | 1.6 |
| REC Hawaii | Honolulu | Electric power generation, s | D | 1.6 |
| Lockheed Martin Corporation Honolulu HI - Lagoon Dr (2829) | Honolulu | Aircraft inspection services | A | 1.6 |
| Administration | Honolulu | Centralized administrative o | F | 1.6 |
| 6962-Swy 0025 3092 | Wailuku | Supermarkets and Other Groce | A | 1.6 |
| Swy-0025-0025-01087 Fac-01087-Kailua-Hi | Kailua | Supermarkets and Other Groce | A | 1.6 |
| Kalaeloa Cogeneration Plant | Kapolei | Electric power generation, f | D | 1.6 |
| 103700 - H1 Shoulder Work & PCC Waimalu to Halawa | Aiea | Concrete paving (i.e., highw | B | 1.6 |
| Ocean View Market | Ocean View | Grocery stores | A | 1.6 |
| KFC-Waikele #038 | Waipahu | Fast-food restaurants | B | 1.6 |
| Environmental Science International, Inc. | Kailua | Environmental consulting ser | F | 1.6 |
| BK-Kapolei #614 | Kapolei | Fast-food restaurants | B | 1.6 |
| Kaunakakai, HI | Kaunakakai | Support Activities for Crop | A | 1.6 |
| GP Energy Company, LLC | Honolulu | Petroleum and petroleum prod | B | 1.6 |
| Foundations Hawaii, Inc. | Kapolei | Concrete reinforcement place | B | 1.6 |
| Ali'i Builders, LLC | Kailua Kona | Condominium, single-family, | A | 1.6 |
| ATE 178-Connolly | Kailua | Arborist services | A | 1.6 |
| BK-Kona #606 | Kailua-Kona | Fast-food restaurants | B | 1.6 |
| Sodexo at Kapiolani Medical Center | Honolulu | Food Service Contractors | B | 1.6 |
| Hawaiian Host LLC | Honolulu | Chocolate (coating, instant, | A | 1.6 |
| Henkels & McCoy, Inc - Hawaii | Kapolei | Telephone line construction | B | 1.6 |
| Hawaiian Host Honolulu LLC | Honolulu | Chocolate (coating, instant, | A | 1.5 |
| HR Hawaii for Orchidland General Store/True Value Hardware | Keaau | Hardware stores | A | 1.5 |
| 14085 the Friends of Iolani Palace | Honolulu | Museums | A | 1.5 |
| Star of Honolulu | Honolulu | Scenic and sightseeing excur | A | 1.5 |
| BAE Systems I&S - Ewa Beach | Ewa Beach | General warehousing and stor | A | 1.5 |
| Ka Makana Alii | Kapolei | Hotels, resort, without casi | B | 1.5 |
| Arita Poulson General Contracting | Kahului | Institutional building const | B | 1.5 |
| Goodfellow Bros. LLC - OA | Kapolei | Surfacing, highway, road, st | B | 1.5 |
| Alakona Corp. | Honolulu | Pavement, highway, road, str | B | 1.5 |
| Hawaiian Electric Company | Honolulu | Public utility holding compa | F | 1.5 |
| Hart Street Warehouse | Honolulu | Window shades and blinds mer | B | 1.5 |
| BK-Kahului #603 | Kahului | Fast-food restaurants | A | 1.5 |
| BK-Waikiki Beach #615 | Honolulu | Fast-food restaurants | A | 1.5 |
| 141401 | Wahiawa | Landscaping Services | A | 1.5 |
| PBRC | Honolulu | Research | F | 1.5 |
| Healy Tibbitts Builders, Inc. | Aiea | Marine construction | B | 1.5 |
| Coconut Plaza Hotel Fun | Honolulu | Hotels (except casino hotels | A | 1.5 |
| 71471 | Hilo | Department Stores | A | 1.5 |
| Hina Mauka | Kaneohe | Alcoholism treatment centers | A | 1.5 |
| SSB Hawaii | Kapolei | Beds, sleep-system ensembles | A | 1.5 |
| Judiciary, Ka'ahumanu Hale | Honolulu | Circuit courts | A | 1.4 |
| American Electric Company | Mililani | Electrical contractors | B | 1.4 |
| Commercial Sheetmetal Co. Inc. | Waipahu | HVAC (heating, ventilation a | B | 1.4 |
| Maui Waste Services | Kahului | Refuse collection services | B | 1.4 |
| Hale Anuenue Restorative Care Center | Hilo | Convalescent homes or conval | A | 1.4 |
| 100146 - Farrington Guideway | Waipahu | Railroad construction | B | 1.4 |
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
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What Hawaii's safety record means for you
Hawaii averages a TCR of 5.3 - about 2.0× 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.