State profile · OSHA ITA
Rhode Island workplace safety
How 1,610 OSHA-reporting employers across Rhode Island compare on workplace injuries, 2016–2024.
- 1,610
- Employers
- 6.2
- Avg TCR
- 34,842
- Injuries
- 17
- Fatalities
The state picture
Rhode Island's reporting employers average 6.2 recordable injuries per 100 workers, 2.3 times the ~2.7 all-industry private-sector norm.
- 6.2
- avg TCR · per 100 workers
- 1,610
- employers reporting
- 34,842
- recordable injuries
- 17
- worker fatalities
State average reflects each state's industry mix. Sort the table below by each employer's own grade against its industry benchmark.
29% of Rhode Island's reporting establishments earn an F and 11% 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 Rhode Island ranks among states
54 states & territories by avg TCRRhode Island's average TCR of 6.2 is lower than 19% 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, Rhode Island is #44 of 54. Ranked instead by fatalities per employer establishment, it's #13 of 54, a 31-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 Rhode Island Workplaces Compare
Rhode Island hosts 1,610 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 Rhode Island cohort, workers have logged 34,842 recordable injuries, producing a state average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 6.2 injuries per 100 full-time workers per year during 2016–2024.
The state has recorded 17 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 Rhode Island, 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 Rhode Island, by injury rate
Page 16 of 33| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Guill Tool and Engineering Co., Inc. - West Warwick, RI | West Warwick | Machine shops | D | 5.0 |
| Providence Aloft Downtown | Providence | Hotels (except casino hotels | D | 5.0 |
| Winslow Gardens | East Providence | Assisted-living facilities w | D | 5.0 |
| Scandinavian Home | Cranston | Nursing homes | B | 5.0 |
| Warwick | West Warwick | Bed stores, retail | D | 5.0 |
| 4256-1710 | Warwick | Passenger car rental | F | 5.0 |
| Heritage Hills Operator, LLC | Smithfield | Nursing homes | B | 5.0 |
| Nai-0033-0033-04443 Fac-04443-North Providence-Ri | North Providence | Supermarkets and Other Groce | D | 5.0 |
| Durastone Corporation | Cranston | Precast concrete products (e | D | 5.0 |
| Guill Tool & Engineering Co., Inc. | West Warwick | Machine shops | D | 5.0 |
| Newport Vineyards and Winery, LLC | Middletown | Grape farming and making win | D | 5.0 |
| Bayside Foods, Inc. DBA Bonollo Provisions | Providence | Groceries, general-line, mer | F | 5.0 |
| 100710 | Pawtucket | - | D | 5.0 |
| Buckhead Meat & Seafood - New England | Warwick | Cutting of purchased carcass | F | 4.9 |
| First Student Tiverton | Tiverton | Bus operation, school and em | C | 4.9 |
| 6140-61400124 | Woonsocket | All Other General Merchandis | D | 4.9 |
| Hope Global | Cumberland | Narrow fabrics weaving | D | 4.9 |
| Great In Counters Inc | Providence | Countertops, stone, manufact | D | 4.9 |
| 6140-61400117 | Woonsocket | All Other General Merchandis | D | 4.9 |
| Stop & Shop 100705 | Smithfield | Grocery Stores | D | 4.9 |
| Waterson Terminal Services LLC | Providence | Stevedoring services | C | 4.9 |
| Newport Harbor Island Resort | Newport | Hotel management services (i | D | 4.9 |
| DGS Aviation Services : PVD - Providence | Providence | Support Activities for Air T | C | 4.9 |
| 2662-4110 | No. Scituate | School and Employee Bus Tran | C | 4.9 |
| 10111 University Heights | Providence | - | D | 4.8 |
| Topgolf Rhode Island | Cranston | Amusement and Recreation Ser | D | 4.8 |
| 31780 Store 31780 | Providence | All Other General Merchandis | D | 4.8 |
| Fairfield Inn & Suites | Warwick | Hotels (except casino hotels | D | 4.8 |
| Lockheed Window Corp. | Pascoag | Windows, metal, manufacturin | D | 4.8 |
| ICI Office | Tiverton | Addition, alteration and ren | D | 4.8 |
| Darligton Fabrics A division of the Moore Co., Canal Street Location | Westerly | Knitting and finishing warp | D | 4.8 |
| Hinckley Comapny | Postsmouth | Boats (i.e., suitable or int | D | 4.8 |
| 100704 | Cumberland | - | D | 4.8 |
| Wm 1964 | Westerly | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | D | 4.8 |
| Wm 2283 | Coventry | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | D | 4.8 |
| 1404 - Smithfield | Smithfield | Discount Department Stores | D | 4.8 |
| A & H Mfg. Co. | Johnston | Rulers, plastics, manufactur | D | 4.8 |
| Pariseault Builders Inc. | Warwick | Partition (e.g., office, was | D | 4.7 |
| Stericycle - Woonsocket,RI-369 Park East | Woonsocket | Other Nonhazardous Waste Tre | D | 4.7 |
| North Kingston, Rhode Island | North Kingston | Installation of photovoltaic | D | 4.7 |
| Stop & Shop 100712 | Lincoln | Grocery Stores | D | 4.7 |
| Administration | Middletown | Intellectual and development | D | 4.7 |
| 2261 | North Kingstown | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | D | 4.7 |
| Dattco - Pascoag | Pascoag | School bus services | C | 4.7 |
| Armbrust International, Ltd. | Providence | Jewel settings and mountings | D | 4.7 |
| Pariseault Builders Inc. | Cranston | Partition (e.g., office, was | D | 4.7 |
| 61400104 Ri104 Coventry | Coventry | All Other General Merchandis | D | 4.7 |
| Father Flanagan's New England | Portsmouth | Intermediate Care Facilities | B | 4.7 |
| Portsmouth 26045 | Portsmouth | School bus services | C | 4.7 |
| L3Harris Technologies Inc-Ashaway | Ashaway | Search and detection systems | D | 4.7 |
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
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What Rhode Island's safety record means for you
Rhode Island averages a TCR of 6.2 - about 2.3× 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.