State profile · OSHA ITA
Vermont workplace safety
How 1,065 OSHA-reporting employers across Vermont compare on workplace injuries, 2016–2024.
- 1,065
- Employers
- 7.1
- Avg TCR
- 19,393
- Injuries
- 9
- Fatalities
The state picture
Vermont's reporting employers average 7.1 recordable injuries per 100 workers, 2.6 times the ~2.7 all-industry private-sector norm.
- 7.1
- avg TCR · per 100 workers
- 1,065
- employers reporting
- 19,393
- recordable injuries
- 9
- worker fatalities
State average reflects each state's industry mix. Sort the table below by each employer's own grade against its industry benchmark.
41% of Vermont's reporting establishments earn an F and 8% 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 Vermont ranks among states
54 states & territories by avg TCRVermont's average TCR of 7.1 is lower than 2% 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, Vermont is #53 of 54. Ranked instead by fatalities per employer establishment, it's #7 of 54, a 46-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 Vermont Workplaces Compare
Vermont hosts 1,065 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 Vermont cohort, workers have logged 19,393 recordable injuries, producing a state average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 7.1 injuries per 100 full-time workers per year during 2016–2024.
The state has recorded 9 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 Vermont, 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 Vermont, by injury rate
Page 4 of 22| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rescue Inc | Brattleboro | Emergency medical transporta | F | 11.6 |
| Burlington VT | Burlington | Hardware Stores | F | 11.6 |
| Garware Fulflex USA Inc | Brattleboro | All Other Rubber Product Man | F | 11.6 |
| Wright Construction Co Inc | Mt Holly | Commercial building construc | F | 11.5 |
| 4795-PD-BTV-BURLINGTON-BTV-PDMT | South Burlington | Scheduled Passenger Air Tran | F | 11.5 |
| 5472-NAI-0033-0033-02527 | Ludlow | Supermarkets and Other Groce | F | 11.5 |
| Marsan & Son Enterprises DBA Carpenter & Costin | Pittsford | Seasonal property maintenanc | F | 11.5 |
| City of Winooski | Winooski | Executive offices, federal, | F | 11.5 |
| So. Burlington Store | South Burlington | Used Merch Stores | F | 11.5 |
| 5472-NAI-0033-0033-00616 | Berlin | Supermarkets and Other Groce | F | 11.5 |
| Velan Valve | Williston | Valves for nuclear applicati | F | 11.4 |
| HP Hood, LLC- Barre, VT | Barre | Milk, fluid (except canned), | F | 11.4 |
| Special Services Transportation Agency | Colchester | Handicapped passenger transp | F | 11.4 |
| The Villa Rehab Center | Saint Albans | Skilled nursing facilities | D | 11.4 |
| Ellison Surface Technologies, Inc. - North Clarendon | North Clarendon | Coating metals and metal pro | F | 11.4 |
| Rockingham 185 | Rockingham | - | F | 11.2 |
| 0265 - Vth | Norwich | Home Health Care | F | 11.2 |
| J.A. Morrissey, Inc | Burlington | Commercial and Institutional | F | 11.1 |
| Carris Reels Bonham | Bonham | Applicators, wood, manufactu | F | 11.1 |
| Sodexo at University of Vermont-Harris | Burlington | Food Service Contractors | F | 11.1 |
| 5472-NAI-0033-0033-00326 | Waitsfield | Supermarkets and Other Groce | F | 11.1 |
| 08426 - Store # 8426 Bradford | Bradford | Grocery Stores | F | 11.1 |
| Darntough | Northfield | Athletic socks, knitting or | F | 11.0 |
| Essex Junction_1362737 | Essex Junction | Mail and Parcel Delivery | F | 11.0 |
| Maple Landmark Exchange St | Middlebury | Household-type woodenware ma | F | 11.0 |
| Chippers Inc. | Woodstock | Arborist services | F | 11.0 |
| 0366 - Rut | Rutland | Home Health Care | F | 11.0 |
| Capital Candy Co., Inc | Barre | General-line groceries merch | F | 11.0 |
| 6140-61400426 | St. Johnsbury | All Other General Merchandis | F | 10.9 |
| St Albans Vermont Site | St Albans | Candy, chocolate, made from | F | 10.9 |
| Sacred Heart St. Francis de Sales School | Bennington | Churches | F | 10.9 |
| Ehrmann Commonwealth Dairy | Brattleboro | Beverages, milk based (excep | F | 10.9 |
| Kent Nutrition Group- Richford | Richford | Blending animal feed | F | 10.8 |
| Sodexo at Univ of Vermont Mcauley | Burlington | Food Service Contractors | F | 10.8 |
| 5472-000000121 | Montpelier | Supermarkets and Other Groce | F | 10.8 |
| Maine Course Hospitality Group - Home2 Suites | Williston | Hotels (except casino hotels | F | 10.8 |
| Vtbar - Barre | Barre | Couriers and Express Deliver | D | 10.8 |
| Fabtech | Colchester | Sheet Metal Work Manufacturi | F | 10.8 |
| Mack Molding Company - Cavendish | Cavendish | Hardware, plastics, manufact | F | 10.8 |
| Ouellette Plumbing & Heating Corporation | Williston | Heating contractors | F | 10.8 |
| Cersosimo Lumber Company | Brattleboro | Sawmills | F | 10.7 |
| 6140-61400427 | Rutland | All Other General Merchandis | F | 10.7 |
| Montpelier 188 | Berlin | - | F | 10.7 |
| 500280-Barre Vt Po | Barre | Mail and Parcel Delivery | F | 10.7 |
| Cole Electric, Inc. | East Thetford | Low voltage electrical work | F | 10.6 |
| ICV Construction, Inc. | Burlington | Commercial building construc | F | 10.6 |
| Groveton Facility | St. Johnsbury | Fabrication, metal cabinet o | F | 10.5 |
| Best Western - Waterbury/Stowe | Waterbury | Hotels (except casino hotels | F | 10.4 |
| Alliance Mechanical E | Essex Jct. | Plumbing, heating, and air-C | F | 10.4 |
| American Red Cross - 32 N Prospect St | Burlington | - | F | 10.4 |
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
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What Vermont's safety record means for you
Vermont averages a TCR of 7.1 - about 2.6× 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.