TCR, interpreted
Far above average
7.7 avg TCR
State profile · OSHA ITA
Maine workplace safety
How 2,397 OSHA-reporting employers across Maine compare on workplace injuries, 2016–2024. Average TCR uses the 2,203 establishments with a credible rate (see methodology).
- 2,397
- Employers
- 7.7
- Avg TCR (rated)
- 57,771
- Injuries (all)
- 20
- Fatalities (all)
Maine 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)
2,397 39th of 54 higher than 15 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
Maine's 2,203 rated 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 · rated subset
- 2,203
- rated employers
- 2,397
- all reporting employers
- 57,771
- recordable injuries (all)
Inventory counts and injury/fatality totals cover all 2,397 ITA establishments; the average TCR excludes zero-rate and corrupt-hours filings. See Methodology → Three Populations.
A · 8% B · 8% C · 19% D · 22% F · 43%
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.
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A second cut tells a different story: ranked by rated-subset injury rate alone, Maine is #54 of 54. Ranked instead by fatalities per rated employer establishment (same 2,203-employer subset), it's #5 of 54, a 49-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 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. The published state average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 7.7 injuries per 100 full-time workers uses the 2,203 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 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 |
| Biddeford Store | Biddeford | Used Merch Stores | F | 11.8 |
| The Inn at Atlantic Heights | Saco | Skilled nursing facilities | D | 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 |
| NAPA Westbrook | Westbrook | Auto supply stores | F | 11.6 |
| 8221 | East Waterboro | Supermrkts & other grocery s | F | 11.6 |
| 8229 | Waterville | Supermrkts & other grocery s | F | 11.6 |
| Log Southern Maine_1558123 | Scarborough | Mail and Parcel Delivery | 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 |
| 8351 | Portland | Supermrkts & other grocery s | F | 11.6 |
| 1954 | Sanford | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | F | 11.6 |
| Maine Course Hospitality Group - Courtyard Bangor | Bangor | Hotel management services (i | 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 |
| Katahdin Valley Health Center, Patten Clinic | Patten | Family physicians' offices ( | F | 11.4 |
| Woodlawn Nursing and Rehabilitation Center | Skowhegan | Skilled nursing facilities | D | 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 |
| Sanford Manufacturing | Sanford | Patio block, concrete, manuf | F | 11.4 |
| Retail East - Kennebunk | Kennebunk | Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG | F | 11.4 |
| Portland 170 | Lewiston | - | 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 |
| 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 |
| Uplift, Inc | Gardiner | Group homes, intellectual an | F | 11.3 |
Nationwide states with similar injury rates or employer scale
Two PlainSafetyScore-derived peer sets for Maine: 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 (7.7 here).
Similar employer inventory
Nearest states by reporting employer count (2,397 here).
Look up a Maine employer → · Compare all states → · How TCR is measured →
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
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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.