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 19 of 33| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 75 Lake Drive, West Greenwich, RI 02817 | Middletown | Intellectual and development | C | 4.0 |
| West Bay Residential Services, Inc. DBA West Bay RI | Warwick | Intellectual and development | C | 4.0 |
| Dave's Fresh Marketplace Management | East Greenwich | Commissaries, primarily groc | C | 4.0 |
| Bristol | Bristol | Buildings, prefabricated woo | D | 4.0 |
| Gateway Healthcare, Inc. | Pawtucket | Mental health centers and cl | C | 4.0 |
| Ferguson Perforating Company | Providence | Machine tools, metal cutting | D | 4.0 |
| 2807-2723 | North Smithfield | Homecenter | C | 4.0 |
| 102702 | Cranston | - | C | 4.0 |
| RAC | Providence | - | B | 4.0 |
| 61400123 Ri123 Northkingston | North Kingstown | All Other General Merchandis | C | 4.0 |
| Sodexo at Providence College Raymond | Providence | Food Service Contractors | D | 4.0 |
| Providence Performing Arts Center | Providence | Performing arts center opera | D | 4.0 |
| 100739 | Warwick | - | C | 4.0 |
| Garden City #223 | Cranston | Housewares stores | C | 4.0 |
| Kingston location | Kingston | Activity centers for disable | C | 4.0 |
| Rebuilder's Automotive Supply- Rhode Island | Coventry | Motor vehicle parts, used, m | D | 4.0 |
| Cumberland | Cumberland | Communications wire and cabl | C | 4.0 |
| MIDDLETOWN_1434583 | Middletown | Mail and Parcel Delivery | C | 3.9 |
| Rohrer Corporation | Warwick | Offset printing (except book | C | 3.9 |
| West Bay Residential Services, Inc. | Warwick | Intellectual and development | C | 3.9 |
| Tasca Automotive Group Rt 6 One Inc | Cranston | Automobile dealers, new only | C | 3.9 |
| EDL Johnston | Johnston | Biomass electric power gener | F | 3.9 |
| Tiffany and Company | Cumberland | Jewel settings and mountings | C | 3.9 |
| Robert F. Audet, Inc. | East Greenwich | Electrical contractors | D | 3.9 |
| Humphrey's | Tiverton | Home centers, building mater | C | 3.9 |
| 473 Kent Regency | Warwick | Healthcare Facility | B | 3.9 |
| High Purity New England | Smithfield | Medical supplies merchant wh | D | 3.9 |
| Home Delivery Stop & Shop Providence, Ri | Providence | - | C | 3.9 |
| Natco Products Corporation | West Warwick | Rugs and carpets made from t | C | 3.9 |
| HG0133 | North Kingston | Homefurnishings stores | C | 3.9 |
| A. J. Oster East | Warwick | Metals service centers | D | 3.9 |
| 4028 East Region-Cumberland | Cumberland | School and Employee Bus Tran | C | 3.9 |
| RIA - Rhode | West Warwick | Intercity And Rural Bus Tran | C | 3.9 |
| Dave's Fresh Marketplace of Smithfield Crossing | Smithfield | Grocery stores | C | 3.8 |
| FedEx 540 AIRPORT RD | Warwick | Courier and Express Delivery | B | 3.8 |
| Aero Mechanical, Inc. | Johnston | HVAC (heating, ventilation a | D | 3.8 |
| Dean Warehouse Services, Inc. | Warwick | General warehousing and stor | B | 3.8 |
| Chapel Hill | Cumberland | 623312 Assisted Living Facil | C | 3.8 |
| 55336 55346 55453 Brown University, RISD, Rhode Island Nursing | Providence | Shuttle services (except emp | C | 3.8 |
| Village House | Newport | Skilled nursing facilities | B | 3.8 |
| Anchor Insulation- RI Industrial/Mechanical- IBP Branch 302/303 | East Providence | Insulation, boiler, duct and | D | 3.8 |
| Composite Energy Technologies | Bristol | Awnings, rigid plastics or f | C | 3.8 |
| 000007773 Warwick Public Schools | Warwick | Food Services | D | 3.8 |
| Evergreen House Health Center | East Providence | Skilled nursing facilities | B | 3.8 |
| Evoqua Water Technologies Coventry | Coventry | Water purification equipment | C | 3.8 |
| Lucas Milhaupt Warwick | Warwick | Bar, copper and copper alloy | C | 3.8 |
| Heritage Healthcare Services Inc. | Cranston | Housekeeping services (i.e., | C | 3.8 |
| EB East Providence | East Providence | - | D | 3.8 |
| 432360-Coventry Po | Coventry | Mail and Parcel Delivery | C | 3.8 |
| Grinnell Cabinet Makers | Cranston | Custom architectural millwor | C | 3.8 |
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.