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 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 |
| The Portland Group Providence | Providence | Boilers (e.g., heating, hot | F | 11.2 |
| 61400124 Ri124 Woonsocket | Woonsocket | All Other General Merchandis | 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 |
| Zoll Medical Corporation | Pawtucket | Electromedical equipment man | F | 11.1 |
| Bell | East Providence | Group homes, intellectual an | F | 11.1 |
| United Builders Supply Co., Inc -Westerly | Westerly | Building materials supply de | F | 11.1 |
| Lincoln Place | Lincoln | Assisted-living facilities w | F | 11.1 |
| Sail Energy LLC dba Vaughn Oil | Smithfield | Fuel oil (i.e., heating) dea | F | 11.1 |
| 28860000 | Warwick | Transportation Air Cargo | D | 11.1 |
| 7 White Oak Drive, Wyoming, RI 02898 | Middletown | Intellectual and development | F | 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 |
| B-X Providence LLC | Providence | Assisted Living Facilities f | F | 10.9 |
| Providence Hilton | Providence | Hotels (except casino hotels | 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 |
| 5472-NAI-0033-0033-03687 | East Providence | Supermarkets and Other Groce | F | 10.8 |
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.