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 5 of 33| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5472-NAI-0033-0033-03687 | East Providence | Supermarkets and Other Groce | F | 10.8 |
| 437142-Providence Ri Vmf | Providence | Mail and Parcel Delivery | F | 10.7 |
| Elderwood of Scallop Shell at Wakefield | Wakefield | Nursing homes | D | 10.7 |
| Bradley Hospital | East Providence | Children's hospitals, psychi | F | 10.7 |
| Lincolnwood Operator | North Providence | Nursing homes | D | 10.7 |
| Morgan Health Center | Johnston | Nursing homes | D | 10.7 |
| 220 Woonasquatucket | North Providence | Self-help organizations for | F | 10.6 |
| 1141 Warren Center | Warren | Healthcare Facility | D | 10.6 |
| Providence Vmf_1434685 | Providence | Mail and Parcel Delivery | F | 10.6 |
| HG166 | Lincoln | Homefurnishings stores | F | 10.5 |
| Elmwood Nursing & Rehabilitation Center | Providence | Nursing homes | D | 10.5 |
| Dixon | Bristol | Group homes, intellectual an | F | 10.5 |
| The Town Dock (J) | Johnston | Seafood and seafood products | F | 10.5 |
| Blount Fine Foods Warren | Warren | Prepared meals, perishable, | F | 10.5 |
| SMG Dunkin Donuts Center | Providence | Arena operators | F | 10.5 |
| Dunkin Donuts Center | Providence | Performing arts center opera | F | 10.4 |
| Atlas Pallet Corp | Harrisville | Ammunition boxes, wood, manu | F | 10.4 |
| Stop & Shop 100720 | Coventry | Grocery Stores | F | 10.3 |
| Vicentes Pawtucket Inc. | Pawtucket | Grocery stores | F | 10.3 |
| Harborhill Place | East Greenwich | Assisted-living facilities w | F | 10.3 |
| EMI Industries RI | Cranston | Drill presses, woodworking-t | F | 10.2 |
| 100 Wampanoag Trail Operating Company, LLC | Riverside | Skilled nursing facilities | D | 10.2 |
| AdCare Rhode Island | North Kingstown | Alcoholism rehabilitation ho | F | 10.2 |
| Bryant University** | Smithfield | Food Service | F | 10.1 |
| OLNEYVILLE_1376101 | Providence | Mail and Parcel Delivery | F | 10.1 |
| Long Wharf | Newport | Hotels and Motels | F | 10.1 |
| Providence RI FXFE-PVD | Cumberland | Less Than Truckload General | F | 10.1 |
| 436860-Portsmouth Po | Portsmouth | Mail and Parcel Delivery | F | 10.1 |
| Riverview Healthcare | Coventry | - | D | 10.1 |
| Community Based Family Supports, 438 East Main Road, Middletown, RI 02842 | Middletown | Intellectual and development | F | 10.0 |
| 99146 | North Smithfield | - | F | 10.0 |
| Heatherwood RI LLC | Newport | Nursing Care Facilities (Ski | D | 10.0 |
| Stedagio | Mapleville | Cured meats (e.g., brined, d | F | 9.9 |
| Byron Randall | Johnston | Intellectual and development | F | 9.9 |
| Summit Commons Rehabilitation and Health Care Center | Providence | Nursing Care Facilities (Ski | D | 9.9 |
| On Shore | Newport | Hotels and Motels | F | 9.9 |
| The Evans Findings Company | East Providence | Stamping machines, metalwork | F | 9.9 |
| Town of South Kingstown | Wakefield | Personnel offices, governmen | F | 9.8 |
| New England Boatworks | Portsmouth | Boat yards (i.e., boat manuf | F | 9.8 |
| Warwick, RI | Warwick | Ambulance Services | F | 9.8 |
| 4186-01733 | Providence | All Other General Merchandis | F | 9.8 |
| Refuse solid waste | Johnston | Dumps, nonhazardous solid wa | F | 9.8 |
| Anchor Bay at East Providence | East Providence | Assisted-living facilities w | F | 9.8 |
| Tanury Industries | Lincoln | Electroplating metals and fo | F | 9.8 |
| Seaside Casual Furniture | Coventry | Plastics (including fibergla | F | 9.8 |
| Jay Packaging Group, Inc. | Warwick | Offset printing presses manu | F | 9.7 |
| PVD | Cumberland | General freight trucking, lo | F | 9.7 |
| M&M Transport - Woonsocket Ops | North Smithfield | General freight trucking, lo | F | 9.7 |
| 437141-Providence Ri P&Dc | Providence | Mail and Parcel Delivery | F | 9.7 |
| Westerly Operator LLC | Westerly | Skilled nursing facilities | D | 9.7 |
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.