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 21 of 33| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Commercial Painting, Inc | Pawtucket | Painting and wallpapering | C | 3.4 |
| Woods Heating Service | East Providence | Heating oil dealers, direct | C | 3.3 |
| Aspen Aerogel | East Providence | Silica gel manufacturing | C | 3.3 |
| Bell - RTI | Coventry | Aircraft assemblies, subasse | C | 3.3 |
| 236 Woonsocket, Ri | Woonsocket | Family Clothing Stores | C | 3.3 |
| DeWal Industries | Narragansett | Plastics film and unlaminate | C | 3.3 |
| BRISTOL_1355889 | Bristol | Mail and Parcel Delivery | B | 3.3 |
| 100701 | Newport | - | C | 3.3 |
| PEP : CPP - Rhode Island | Woonsocket | - | C | 3.3 |
| Cranston Facility | Cranston | Polyester filament yarn thro | C | 3.3 |
| Hsi Construction | Pawtucket | Construction management, com | C | 3.3 |
| 11724 Warwick | Warwick | Bus operation, school and em | B | 3.3 |
| Taylor Box Company | Warren | Boxes, setup (i.e., not ship | C | 3.3 |
| 100709 | Warwick | - | C | 3.3 |
| Schroff, Inc. | Warwick | Air cargo containers, light | C | 3.3 |
| Toyota-Warwick | Warwick | Automobile dealers, new only | C | 3.3 |
| Kenyon Industries, Inc. | Kenyon | Textile products finishing | C | 3.3 |
| Rodeway Inn Warwick | Warwick | Hotels (except casino hotels | C | 3.3 |
| 12 William Drive, Middletown, RI 02842 | Middletown | Intellectual and development | C | 3.3 |
| 2662-4111 | Newport | School and Employee Bus Tran | B | 3.3 |
| A A Wrecking Co., Inc. | Johnston | Demolition contractor | C | 3.3 |
| Hampton Coventry | Coventry | Hotels (except casino hotels | C | 3.3 |
| 547 Smithfield | Smithfield | Department Store | C | 3.3 |
| 493013-Coventry | RI | 493013 | Coventry | 485410 | B | 3.2 |
| Hitachi Cable America Inc., High Performance Medical Solutions Division (RI Facility) | Ashaway | Implants, surgical, manufact | C | 3.2 |
| Rhodes Technologies | Coventry | Concentrated medicinal chemi | C | 3.2 |
| Sodexo at Bryant Univ Salmanson Dining | Smithfield | Food Service Contractors | C | 3.2 |
| Millard Wire Company | Warwick | Aircraft and automotive wire | C | 3.2 |
| McKenna Roofing & Construction, Inc. | Pawtucket | Roofing contractors | C | 3.2 |
| Angelica - Pawtucket | Pawtucket | Laundry services, linen supp | D | 3.2 |
| Chariho Regional SD | Wood River Junction | - | C | 3.2 |
| Induplate, LLC | North Providence | Plating metals and metal pro | C | 3.2 |
| Lockheed Architectural Solutions, Inc. | Pascoag | Glass coating and tinting (e | C | 3.2 |
| SSTARBIRTH of Rhode Island | Cranston | Social service centers, mult | C | 3.2 |
| 100707 | Cranston | - | C | 3.2 |
| Maxson Automatic Machinery Company | Westerly | Printing presses (except tex | C | 3.2 |
| TOCKWOTTON/WATERFRONT | East Providence | - | C | 3.2 |
| Sodexo at Providence S.D Admin | Providence | Food Service Contractors | C | 3.2 |
| 28860002 | Warwick | Transportation Air Cargo | A | 3.2 |
| Big Lots Store #1954 Warwick, RI | Warwick | Retail Other | C | 3.2 |
| J2Construct, Inc. | Middletown | Construction management, sin | C | 3.2 |
| 158_421 | Richmond | - | C | 3.2 |
| Dave's Fresh Marketplace of Cumberland | Cumberland | Grocery stores | C | 3.1 |
| Chalet Navy | Newport | Hotels (except casino hotels | C | 3.1 |
| Sodexo at Bryant Univ Nick'S Place | Smithfield | Food Service Contractors | C | 3.1 |
| E.W. Audet & Sons, Inc. | Providence | Electrical contractors | C | 3.1 |
| Prysmian Cables and Systems USA, LLC | Lincoln | Cable, nonferrous, insulated | C | 3.1 |
| Tasca Automotive Group North Inc | Woonsocket | Retail Automotive Dealer | C | 3.1 |
| Jefferson Hotel Associates (Holiday Inn Express) | Warwick | Hotels (except casino hotels | C | 3.1 |
| Empire Builders, Inc | Pawtucket | CARPENTRY NOC | C | 3.1 |
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.