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 18 of 33| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9215-PVD | Warwick | Ground Handler | C | 4.3 |
| North Kingstown | North Kingstown | Automatic chemical analyzers | D | 4.3 |
| Nai-0033-0033-00625 Fac-00625-Cranston-Ri | Cranston | Supermarkets and Other Groce | D | 4.3 |
| 100737 | North Kingstown | - | D | 4.3 |
| Home Based Therapeutic Services | Portsmouth | Individual and family social | C | 4.3 |
| 5063 | Providence | Automotive Parts and Accesso | D | 4.3 |
| 2904-SAS-RI | Any | Wholesale Trade Agents and B | D | 4.3 |
| Rhode Island Community Food Bank | Providence | Food banks | C | 4.3 |
| 25320393 Warwick, Ri | Warwick | Warehouse Club and Supercent | D | 4.3 |
| Aidance Scientific, Inc | Woonsocket | Pharmaceutical preparations | D | 4.3 |
| Wm 2261 | North Kingstown | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | D | 4.3 |
| East Side | Providence | Assisted-living facilities w | C | 4.3 |
| Blount Fine Foods-Warren | Warren | Seafood and seafood products | D | 4.3 |
| Linn Health & Rehabilitation Center | East Providence | Skilled nursing facilities | B | 4.3 |
| 493006-East Providence | RI | OST-100 | Riverside | 485410 | C | 4.3 |
| wellington avenue | Cranston | Mechanic's handtools, nonpow | D | 4.2 |
| Central Falls Public Schools | Central Falls | - | D | 4.2 |
| 580 - Warwick | Warwick | - | D | 4.2 |
| Grand Islander Center | Middletown | Skilled nursing facilities | B | 4.2 |
| Dave's Fresh Marketplace of Cranston | Cranston | Grocery stores | D | 4.2 |
| DATTCO - Cranston | Cranston | Bus operation, school and em | C | 4.2 |
| Warwick Office | Warwick | Companion services for disab | C | 4.2 |
| Rhode Island Medical Imaging- Barrington | Barrington | Diagnostic imaging centers ( | C | 4.2 |
| 493008-Exeter | RI | OST-140 | Exeter | 485410 | C | 4.2 |
| 0563 - Rac | Warwick | Home Health Care | C | 4.2 |
| Inland Waters LLC | Johnston | Construction management, wat | D | 4.2 |
| Copper and Brass Sales - Smithfield | Smithfield | Semi-finished metal products | D | 4.2 |
| 5472-000000625 | Cranston | Supermarkets and Other Groce | D | 4.2 |
| Stop & Shop 100709 | Warwick | Grocery Stores | D | 4.2 |
| Nai-0033-0033-01442 Fac-01442-Middletown-Ri | Middletown | Supermarkets and Other Groce | D | 4.2 |
| Clean Harbors Environmental Services Inc 41RI | Cranston | - | D | 4.1 |
| RICON Construction | Warwick | Curbs and street gutters, hi | D | 4.1 |
| 2904-ASM-RI | Any | Agents and brokers, durable | D | 4.1 |
| Dave's Fresh Marketplace of East Greenwich Square, Inc | East Greenwich | Supermarkets | D | 4.1 |
| 300 Park East Drive | Woonsocket | Secondary smelting of nonfer | D | 4.1 |
| 100718 | Narragansett | - | D | 4.1 |
| JS Pallet Co., Inc. | Pawtucket | Pallet parts, wood, manufact | D | 4.1 |
| Citizens Johnston | Johnston | - | D | 4.1 |
| Middletown Main Office | Middletown | Group homes, intellectual an | C | 4.1 |
| Tasca Lincoln Mercury Inc | Cranston | Automobile dealers, new only | C | 4.1 |
| Graduate Providence | Providence | Hotels (except casino hotels | D | 4.1 |
| LINCOLN-RI03 | Lincoln | Electric Power Distribution | F | 4.1 |
| Claris Vision | Warwick | Optometrists' offices (e.g., | C | 4.0 |
| Dave's Fresh Marketplace of Airport Road | Warwick | Grocery stores | C | 4.0 |
| 2662-4115 | Providence | School and Employee Bus Tran | C | 4.0 |
| Smithfield Woods | Smithfield | 623312 Assisted Living Facil | C | 4.0 |
| 1104 Warwick | Warwick | Retail | C | 4.0 |
| 2662-4028 | Cumberland | School and Employee Bus Tran | C | 4.0 |
| 100726 | Warwick | - | C | 4.0 |
| Coventry Center | Coventry | Nursing homes | B | 4.0 |
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.