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 28 of 33| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AstroNova Inc. | West Warwick | Printers, computer, manufact | A | 0.9 |
| SMM Group Johnston Facility | Johnston | Scrap materials (e.g., autom | A | 0.9 |
| Contempo Card Company | Providence | Packaging film, plastics, si | A | 0.9 |
| RI Maintenance | West Warwick | Automobile carrier trucking, | A | 0.9 |
| General Cable Lincoln, RI Plant | Lincoln | Insulating purchased nonferr | A | 0.9 |
| Vishay, Electro Film | Warwick | Warehouse, commercial and in | A | 0.9 |
| Taco Cranston | Cranston | Heating equipment, hot water | A | 0.9 |
| Cavanagh Company | Greenville | Communion wafer manufacturin | A | 0.9 |
| DeWolf Chemical, LLC | Warwick | Chemicals (except agricultur | A | 0.9 |
| New England Construction Company Inc. | Rumford | Addition, alteration and ren | A | 0.9 |
| Roblin Acquisition/LFI Inc | Smithfield | Amplifiers, magnetic, pulse, | A | 0.9 |
| William Anthony Excavating Inc. | North Kingstown | Excavation contractors | A | 0.9 |
| Cox Communications, West Warwick | West Warwick | Telecommunications carriers, | D | 0.9 |
| Finlay Extracts & Ingredients USA, Inc. - Lincoln | Lincoln | Extracts, essences and prepa | A | 0.9 |
| Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence Rhode Island | No Kingstown | Instruments for industrial p | A | 0.8 |
| RI.PROVI.41 - Ricoh Americas Holdings, Inc. | Providence | Office Equipment | A | 0.8 |
| Naval Undersea Warfare Center and Naval Station | Middletown | Radar and sonar equipement r | A | 0.8 |
| Glenn, LLC | Warwick | Chemicals (except agricultur | A | 0.8 |
| Designs International Inc., dba Robert Corio Designs | Johnston | Bracelets, precious metal, m | A | 0.8 |
| Briarcliffe Gardens | Johnston | Assisted-living facilities w | A | 0.8 |
| UN1F1ED2RI | North Kingston | Containers, wood, manufactur | A | 0.8 |
| Structural Stone LLC | North Kingstown | Architectural sculptures, st | A | 0.8 |
| Amgen SBMS W Greenwich | West Greenwich | Janitorial services | A | 0.8 |
| Parkinson technologies, Inc. | Woonsocket | Stretching machines, metalwo | A | 0.8 |
| Toray Plastics (America), Inc. | North Kingstown | Packaging film, plastics, si | A | 0.8 |
| 1549 - North Smithfield | North Smithfield | - | A | 0.8 |
| Ocean State Power | Harrisville | Electric power generation, f | B | 0.8 |
| East Providence Ri | East Providence | - | A | 0.8 |
| Custom & Miller | Pawtucket | Boxes, corrugated and solid | A | 0.8 |
| Lifespan Corporation | Providence | Centralized administrative o | C | 0.7 |
| 3392_6533 | Rumford | - | A | 0.7 |
| Orsted - Providence | Providence | Power generation, wind elect | B | 0.7 |
| Main Office | Cranston | Intellectual and development | A | 0.7 |
| Care New England | Providence | Corporate offices | C | 0.7 |
| Toyota Smithfield | Smithfield | Automobile dealers, new only | A | 0.7 |
| Toyota of Smithfield | Smithfield | 441110 New Car Dealers | A | 0.7 |
| Dejana Truck and Utility Equipment - Smithfield | Smithfield | Automotive body shops | A | 0.7 |
| Corporate Office Building | Providence | Sewage treatment plants or f | B | 0.7 |
| AGI Construction INC. | Smithfield | Pipeline, gas and oil, const | A | 0.7 |
| RI0031CBC | Providence | Wired Telecommunications Car | C | 0.7 |
| Amflex Drive | Cranston | Business forms, manifold, pr | A | 0.7 |
| The Bazar Group Inc. | East Providence | Jewelry, natural or cultured | A | 0.7 |
| Middletown RI | Middletown | Sonar systems and equipment | A | 0.7 |
| Cathedral Art Metal Co., Inc. | Providence | Novelties, not specified els | A | 0.6 |
| Multiwall Packaging - Taylor | East Providence | Paper, corrugated, made from | A | 0.6 |
| Hart Engineering Corporation | Cumberland | Heating, ventilation and air | A | 0.6 |
| NYLO Providence Warwick | Warwick | Hotels (except casino hotels | A | 0.6 |
| Industrial Division | Pawtucket | Mechanical equipment insulat | A | 0.6 |
| ExcellRI | East Greenwich | Addition, alteration and ren | A | 0.6 |
| Delaware Region | Lincoln | Mental health facilities, re | A | 0.6 |
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.