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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.

Rhode Island grade distribution 1,609 graded establishments · width = share

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 TCR

Rhode Island's average TCR of 6.2 is lower than 19% 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 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

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Employer CityIndustryGradeAvg TCR
Atlantic Aviation - PVD Warwick Fixed base operators B 2.7
Unit #1493 Westerly Retail C 2.7
Lifetime Medical Pawtucket Home health care agencies B 2.7
71207 Providence Department Stores C 2.7
RI Office East Providence Electrical contractors C 2.7
Rehab Hospital of Rhode Island Smithfield Physical rehabilitation hosp B 2.7
SMG - Rhode Island Convention Center Providence Arena operators C 2.7
103 Wakefield RI Wakefield Variety stores B 2.7
Unique Metal Works, LLC Pawtucket Heating and cooling duct wor C 2.7
TAG Yonkers Holding Cranston Automobile dealers, new only B 2.7
075/Providence Cranston All Other Home Furnishings S B 2.7
EDL- Johnston Johnston Power generation, biomass F 2.7
Washington County Veterinary Hospital Wakefield Veterinary Services F 2.7
Unit #0367 Warwick Retail B 2.7
7009 - Newport Middletown - B 2.7
Design Fabricators, Inc. Cranston Panel work, wood millwork, m C 2.7
Sodexo at Providence College-Business Sc Providence Food Service Contractors C 2.7
1188 - Warwick Route 2 Warwick Discount Department Stores B 2.6
WESTERLY_1387262 Westerly Mail and Parcel Delivery B 2.6
M8-WARWICK Warwick Furniture Retail Store B 2.6
Gripnail Corporation East Providence Bolts, metal, manufacturing B 2.6
RESH, Inc. Woonsocket Sheet metal work (except sta B 2.6
1549 North Smithfield North Smithfield Department Store B 2.6
Medical Homes of Rhode Island dba Briarcliffe Manor Johnston Skilled nursing facilities A 2.6
Anvil EPS North Kingstown Pipe hangers and supports, m B 2.6
Barker Steel - Pawtucket, Rhode Island Pawtucket Concrete reinforcing bar (re B 2.6
Lakeside Book Company - Cumberland Cumberland General warehousing and stor A 2.6
Cola Foods LLC. Cranston Meat grinders, food-type, ma B 2.6
547 - Smithfield Smithfield - B 2.6
Chase Pawtucket Pawtucket Business management services C 2.6
4285 Providence Providence Home Centers B 2.6
RIA Rhode West Warwick Intercity And Rural Bus Tran B 2.6
Sodexo at Providence Sd Admin Providence Food Service Contractors C 2.6
SITECON Corporation Cranston Demolition contractor C 2.5
Water Quality Science Building Providence Sewage treatment plants or f F 2.5
North Kingstown-Ri08 North Kingstown Electric Power Distribution F 2.5
Eco Global Manufacturing Providence Branch Providence Polyurethane foam products m B 2.5
Mahr Inc. Providence Handtools, machinists' preci B 2.5
MCM Technologies, Inc. Providence Coating metals and metal pro B 2.5
Vibco, Inc. Wyoming Jacks, hydraulic and pneumat B 2.5
Composites One LLC - Bristol Bristol Foam, plastics, resins and s C 2.5
Christmas Tree Shops Newport 7009 Middletown - B 2.5
Amtrol Inc West Warwick West Warwick Metal Tank Heavy Gauge Manuf B 2.5
20 Dexter Street, Newport, RI 02840 Middletown Intellectual and development B 2.5
igus Bearings Inc Rumford Bushings, plastics, manufact B 2.5
NE Tech Greenwich East Greenwich - C 2.4
TG Wheeling LLC Cranston Automobile dealers, new only B 2.4
J.R. Vinagro Corporation Johnston Excavating, earthmoving or l C 2.4
ECC St. Germain Woonsocket Assisted-living facilities w B 2.4
Bucklin Street Providence Printing, letterpress (excep B 2.4
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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.

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.