State profile · OSHA ITA
Maine workplace safety
How 2,397 OSHA-reporting employers across Maine compare on workplace injuries, 2016–2024.
- 2,397
- Employers
- 7.7
- Avg TCR
- 57,771
- Injuries
- 20
- Fatalities
The state picture
Maine's reporting employers average 7.7 recordable injuries per 100 workers, 2.8 times the ~2.7 all-industry private-sector norm.
- 7.7
- avg TCR · per 100 workers
- 2,397
- employers reporting
- 57,771
- recordable injuries
- 20
- worker fatalities
State average reflects each state's industry mix. Sort the table below by each employer's own grade against its industry benchmark.
43% of Maine's reporting establishments earn an F and 8% 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 Maine ranks among states
54 states & territories by avg TCRMaine's average TCR of 7.7 is lower than 0% 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, Maine is #54 of 54. Ranked instead by fatalities per employer establishment, it's #6 of 54, a 48-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 Maine Workplaces Compare
Maine hosts 2,397 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 Maine cohort, workers have logged 57,771 recordable injuries, producing a state average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 7.7 injuries per 100 full-time workers per year during 2016–2024.
The state has recorded 20 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 Maine, 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 Maine, by injury rate
Page 9 of 48| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Acadia Contractors | Turner | Asbestos abatement services | F | 11.8 |
| Auburn ME | Auburn | General Line Grocery Merchan | F | 11.8 |
| The Inn at Atlantic Heights | Saco | Skilled nursing facilities | D | 11.8 |
| Biddeford Store | Biddeford | Used Merch Stores | F | 11.8 |
| The Chapman House | Auburn | Assisted-living facilities w | F | 11.8 |
| Ware Butler Building Supply - Waterville | Waterville | Lumber retailing yards | F | 11.8 |
| Store 1464 | Sanford | General Merchandise Stores | F | 11.8 |
| 8230 | Rockland | Supermrkts & other grocery s | F | 11.8 |
| 8358 | Rumford | Supermrkts & other grocery s | F | 11.8 |
| Narraguagus Bay Health Care Facility | Milbridge | Skilled nursing facilities | D | 11.7 |
| Portland Food Co-op | Portland | Grocery stores | F | 11.7 |
| 2807-2407 | Scarborough | Homecenter | F | 11.7 |
| 750 Pine Point Center | Scarborough | Healthcare Facility | D | 11.7 |
| Cliff House | Cape Neddick | - | F | 11.7 |
| 8187 | Topsham | Supermrkts & other grocery s | F | 11.7 |
| 8221 | East Waterboro | Supermrkts & other grocery s | F | 11.6 |
| NAPA Westbrook | Westbrook | Auto supply stores | F | 11.6 |
| Log Southern Maine_1558123 | Scarborough | Mail and Parcel Delivery | F | 11.6 |
| 8229 | Waterville | Supermrkts & other grocery s | F | 11.6 |
| Westgate Center for Rehabilitation and Alzheimers Care | Bangor | Skilled nursing facilities | D | 11.6 |
| 8222 | Falmouth | Supermrkts & other grocery s | F | 11.6 |
| Houle's | Waterville | Plumbing and heating contrac | F | 11.6 |
| Lyman-Morse Boatbuilding | Thomaston | Boat yards (i.e., boat manuf | F | 11.6 |
| Maine Course Hospitality Group - Courtyard Bangor | Bangor | Hotel management services (i | F | 11.6 |
| 8351 | Portland | Supermrkts & other grocery s | F | 11.6 |
| 1954 | Sanford | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | F | 11.6 |
| Haleys Metal Shop | Biddeford | HVAC (heating, ventilation a | F | 11.6 |
| American Steel & Aluminum - South Portland | South Portland | Pig iron merchant wholesaler | F | 11.5 |
| Hinckley Southwest Service Yard | Southwest Harbor | Boat, pleasure, repair and m | F | 11.5 |
| 8188 | Yarmouth | Supermrkts & other grocery s | F | 11.5 |
| Freightliner Western Star of Maine - Bangor | Bangor | Truck tractors, road, mercha | F | 11.5 |
| 9000-DRC-BRUNSWICK | Brunswick | FUEL DEALER | F | 11.5 |
| 43 | Lewiston | Couriers and express deliver | D | 11.4 |
| Woodlawn Nursing and Rehabilitation Center | Skowhegan | Skilled nursing facilities | D | 11.4 |
| Katahdin Valley Health Center, Patten Clinic | Patten | Family physicians' offices ( | F | 11.4 |
| Maine Distributors | Bangor | Beer merchant wholesalers | F | 11.4 |
| 08439 - Store # 8439 Houlton | Houlton | Grocery Stores | F | 11.4 |
| Tractor Supply Company Store 1332 | Oxford | General Merchandise Stores | F | 11.4 |
| Portland 170 | Lewiston | - | F | 11.4 |
| Sanford Manufacturing | Sanford | Patio block, concrete, manuf | F | 11.4 |
| Retail East - Kennebunk | Kennebunk | Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG | F | 11.4 |
| Social Services | Portland | Individual and family social | F | 11.4 |
| Gagne and Son Concrete Block Inc. | Belgrade | Bricks, concrete, manufactur | F | 11.4 |
| 08226 - Store # 8226 Buxton | Buxton | Grocery Stores | F | 11.4 |
| 08188 - Store # 8188 Yarmouth | Yarmouth | Grocery Stores | F | 11.3 |
| Uplift, Inc | Gardiner | Group homes, intellectual an | F | 11.3 |
| 2166 - Biddeford | Biddeford | Discount Department Stores | F | 11.3 |
| 30331 Store 30331 | Hartland | All Other General Merchandis | F | 11.3 |
| Regional Transportation Program | Portland | Paratransit transportation s | F | 11.3 |
| SMHC MaineHealth | Biddeford | General medical and surgical | D | 11.3 |
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
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What Maine's safety record means for you
Maine averages a TCR of 7.7 - about 2.8× 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.