TCR, interpreted
Far above average
6.2 avg TCR
State profile · OSHA ITA
Rhode Island workplace safety
How 1,610 OSHA-reporting employers across Rhode Island compare on workplace injuries, 2016–2024. Average TCR uses the 1,438 establishments with a credible rate (see methodology).
- 1,610
- Employers
- 6.2
- Avg TCR (rated)
- 34,842
- Injuries (all)
- 17
- Fatalities (all)
Rhode Island vs all states by OSHA-reporting employer count
Where this state's ITA establishment inventory sits among every tracked state and territory (coverage signal, not a safety ranking)
1,610 46th of 54 higher than 8 of 54 states
States and territories, banded by OSHA ITA reporting employer count
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Source official public datasets · 2026
The state picture
Rhode Island's 1,438 rated 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 · rated subset
- 1,438
- rated employers
- 1,610
- all reporting employers
- 34,842
- recordable injuries (all)
Inventory counts and injury/fatality totals cover all 1,610 ITA establishments; the average TCR excludes zero-rate and corrupt-hours filings. See Methodology → Three Populations.
A · 11% B · 10% C · 25% D · 24% F · 29%
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.
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A second cut tells a different story: ranked by rated-subset injury rate alone, Rhode Island is #44 of 54. Ranked instead by fatalities per rated employer establishment (same 1,438-employer subset), it's #12 of 54, a 32-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 on the same population 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. The published state average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 6.2 injuries per 100 full-time workers uses the 1,438 establishments with a credible rate (zero-rate and corrupt-hours filings stay in the inventory counts above but are excluded from the average, see methodology).
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 27 of 33| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clean Harbors Environmental Services Inc 41RI | Providence | - | B | 1.3 |
| 104012 - NGL-Fields Point LNG Facility | Providence | Natural gas processing plant | A | 1.3 |
| Holiday Inn Express | Warwick | Hotels (except casino hotels | A | 1.3 |
| Lincoln, RI factory | Lincoln | Food, prepared, perishable, | A | 1.3 |
| Wieland Metal Services, LLC | Warwick | Metals service centers | B | 1.3 |
| FIDEL-900SALEMCAFE | Smithfield | - | A | 1.3 |
| Next 150 Construction, LLC | Providence | Addition, alteration and ren | A | 1.3 |
| Slatersville, RI | Slatersville | Industrial gases merchant wh | B | 1.3 |
| Market Basket #89 | Warwick | - | A | 1.3 |
| Warwick Ri - 013 | Warwick | Industrial Launderers | B | 1.3 |
| DiGregorio Corporation | Smithfield | Excavation contractors | A | 1.3 |
| International Manufacturing Services, Inc. | Portsmouth | Capacitors, electronic, fixe | A | 1.3 |
| Woonsocket 10295 | Woonsocket | Plasma Center | A | 1.3 |
| Clayens EAST PROVIDENCE | East Providence | All Other Plastics Product M | A | 1.3 |
| Dominion Diagnostics - RI | North Kingstown | Toxicology health laboratori | A | 1.2 |
| Meridian Printing, Inc. | East Greenwich | Offset printing (except book | A | 1.2 |
| Main Office | Bristol | Group homes, intellectual an | A | 1.2 |
| RISE - Cranston | Cranston | Electrical contractors | A | 1.2 |
| Sunoco Transportation North | East Providence | Tanker trucking (e.g., chemi | A | 1.2 |
| Sodexo at West Warwick School District | West Warwick | Food Service Contractors | A | 1.2 |
| JRB Associates | Cranston | Electroplating metals and fo | A | 1.2 |
| Technic, Inc. Engineered Powders Division | Woonsocket | Silver compounds, not specif | A | 1.2 |
| Market Basket #90 | Johnston | - | A | 1.2 |
| RI Corporate Office | Warwick | Real estate property manager | C | 1.2 |
| Corporate Office | Lincoln | Mental health facilities, re | A | 1.2 |
| PVD Providence Airport | Warwick | Scheduled air passenger tran | A | 1.2 |
| Steere House Nursing* | Providence | - | A | 1.2 |
| Admiral Pkg | Providence | Printing, flexographic (exce | A | 1.1 |
| HoneywellRI14 | Smithfield | Lens blanks, plastics ophtha | A | 1.1 |
| Infineon Technologies_Warwick | Warwick | Semiconductor devices manufa | A | 1.1 |
| Sunglasses and Readers : FGXI (US) | Smithfield | Jewelry merchant wholesalers | B | 1.1 |
| Uncas International | West Warwick | Jewelry stores, costume | A | 1.1 |
| Rhode Island Region | Lincoln | Mental health facilities, re | A | 1.1 |
| Imperial Building Maintenance | Warwick | Building cleaning services, | A | 1.1 |
| Technic Inc | Woonsocket | Silver Compounds, Not Specfi | A | 1.1 |
| ChemArt Company | Lincoln | Bonderizing metal and metal | A | 1.1 |
| Providence, RI HVAC | Lincoln | Heating, ventilation and air | A | 1.1 |
| RI.PROVI.10 - Ricoh Usa, Inc. | Providence | Office Equipment | A | 1.1 |
| Ess - Bal | Cranston | Laboratory testing (except m | F | 1.1 |
| Sodexo at Salve Regina University Ds | Newport | Food Service Contractors | A | 1.1 |
| Stand Corporation | Warwick | Housing, single-family, cons | A | 1.0 |
| 20594 West Warwick | West Warwick | Bus operation, school and em | A | 1.0 |
| FUJIFILM Electronic Materials USA - FEUS RI | North Kingstown | Fire extinguisher chemical p | A | 1.0 |
| Providence RP | Providence | Other Chemical and Allied Pr | A | 1.0 |
| Rhode Island State Energy Center | Johnston | Electric power generation, f | C | 1.0 |
| MFAC, LLC warehouse | West Warwick | Athletic goods (except appar | A | 1.0 |
| HoneywellRI13 | Smithfield | Agents and brokers, durable | A | 1.0 |
| Arden Engineering Constructors, LLC | Pawtucket | Mechanical contractors | A | 1.0 |
| 580 Warwick | Warwick | Department Store | A | 1.0 |
| AstroNova Inc. | West Warwick | Printers, computer, manufact | A | 0.9 |
Nationwide states with similar injury rates or employer scale
Two PlainSafetyScore-derived peer sets for Rhode Island: nearest states and territories by rated-subset average Total Case Rate and by OSHA-reporting employer inventory. These are cross-state neighborhoods, not the employer list above.
Similar average TCR
Nearest states by rated-subset Total Case Rate (6.2 here).
Similar employer inventory
Nearest states by reporting employer count (1,610 here).
Look up a Rhode Island employer → · Compare all states → · How TCR is measured →
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainSafetyScore
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.