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 4 of 33| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5472-NAI-0033-0033-00625 | Cranston | Supermarkets and Other Groce | F | 11.9 |
| 1165 Providence | Providence | Retail | F | 11.9 |
| Organic Dyes and Pigments LLC- Ep | East Providence | Acid dyes, synthetic organic | F | 11.9 |
| Butcher Block Meats, LTD | Pascoag | Grocery stores | F | 11.8 |
| Senesco Marine, LLC | North Kingstown | Shipyard (i.e., facility cap | F | 11.7 |
| Midwest Medical Transport Company - Pawtucket | Pawtucket | Ambulance Services | F | 11.7 |
| 5472-000001435 | Barrington | Supermarkets and Other Groce | F | 11.7 |
| 2430 - Warwick North | Warwick | Discount Department Stores | F | 11.6 |
| 438260-Wakefield Po | Wakefield | Mail and Parcel Delivery | F | 11.6 |
| 22120 Store 22120 | Warwick | All Other General Merchandis | F | 11.6 |
| 437170-Pvd-Olneyville Sta | Providence | Mail and Parcel Delivery | F | 11.6 |
| 6140-61400105 | North Kingstown | General Warehousing and Stor | D | 11.5 |
| Totrama Supermarkets, Inc. | N. Scituate | Grocery stores | F | 11.4 |
| Hopkins Manor Ltd. | North Providence | Skilled nursing facilities | D | 11.4 |
| Wingate on Blackstone | Providence | Assisted-living facilities w | F | 11.4 |
| 26045 Portsmouth | Portsmouth | School bus services | F | 11.3 |
| Mount St. Rita Health Centre | Cumberland | Convalescent homes or conval | D | 11.3 |
| Cumberland Foundry Co., Inc. | Cumberland | Iron, pig, manufacturing | F | 11.2 |
| 61400124 Ri124 Woonsocket | Woonsocket | All Other General Merchandis | F | 11.2 |
| The Portland Group Providence | Providence | Boilers (e.g., heating, hot | F | 11.2 |
| 6140-61400102 | Lincoln | All Other General Merchandis | F | 11.2 |
| Farm Fresh Rhode Island - 10 Sims Avenue | Providence | Environmental advocacy organ | F | 11.2 |
| Bell | East Providence | Group homes, intellectual an | F | 11.1 |
| Zoll Medical Corporation | Pawtucket | Electromedical equipment man | F | 11.1 |
| Lincoln Place | Lincoln | Assisted-living facilities w | F | 11.1 |
| United Builders Supply Co., Inc -Westerly | Westerly | Building materials supply de | F | 11.1 |
| Sail Energy LLC dba Vaughn Oil | Smithfield | Fuel oil (i.e., heating) dea | F | 11.1 |
| 7 White Oak Drive, Wyoming, RI 02898 | Middletown | Intellectual and development | F | 11.1 |
| 28860000 | Warwick | Transportation Air Cargo | D | 11.1 |
| 000008857 Cranston Public Schools | Cranston | Food Services | F | 11.1 |
| Anchor Bay at East Providence | Riverside | Assisted-living facilities w | F | 11.0 |
| Hareld Glass Co Inc. | Warwick | Glazing contractors | F | 11.0 |
| DARLINGTON_1360314 | Pawtucket | Mail and Parcel Delivery | F | 11.0 |
| EB Bristol/Warren | Bristol | - | F | 11.0 |
| Kent Hospital | Warwick | General medical and surgical | D | 11.0 |
| Butler Hospital | Providence | Mental health hospitals | F | 10.9 |
| Providence Hilton | Providence | Hotels (except casino hotels | F | 10.9 |
| B-X Providence LLC | Providence | Assisted Living Facilities f | F | 10.9 |
| 5727 - Providence | Warwick | Lawn Care | F | 10.9 |
| 6458-ZPRO | Johnston | Local Messengers and Local D | F | 10.9 |
| Bucklin Point Wastewater Treatment Facility | East Providence | Sewage treatment plants or f | F | 10.9 |
| Organic Dyes and Pigments Lincoln | Lincoln | Acid dyes, synthetic organic | F | 10.9 |
| RIBC | Providence | Blood banks | F | 10.9 |
| The John Clarke Retirement Center | Middletown | Skilled nursing facilities | D | 10.9 |
| 9288-474 | Middletown | Healthcare Facility | D | 10.8 |
| PM Recycling Inc. | Woonsocket | Pallet parts, wood, manufact | F | 10.8 |
| 358 Lowden St | Pawtucket | Apparel webbings manufacturi | F | 10.8 |
| Brookdale West Bay | Warwick | Assisted-living facilities w | F | 10.8 |
| 437154-Pvd-Corliss Park Sta | Providence | Mail and Parcel Delivery | F | 10.8 |
| Unifi Aviation Services : PVD - Providence | Warwick | Support Activities for Air T | F | 10.8 |
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.