OSHA Benchmarking
How does your injury rate compare with your industry?
Enter last year's numbers from your OSHA 300A and find your industry. You'll see your rates next to the published industry rates, and what the difference is worth a closer look at. Nothing is sent anywhere unless you choose to send it.
Start a conversationThe Employer Success ProgramWhy the comparison matters
Customers, general contractors and project owners ask for these numbers. Prequalification forms often want your total recordable rate and your DART rate right next to your experience mod. A rate above your industry can take you out of the running before anyone looks at your price.
Underwriters look at the same picture when they price your insurance. And it is the cleanest apples to apples measure you have: cases per 100 full-time workers, measured against companies doing the same kind of work.
Most of all, it tells you where to look first. A high rate is a symptom. Finding out what is behind it is where the savings are.
Your numbers
Take these from last year's OSHA Form 300A. Count recordable cases only.
No 300A handy? A full-time employee works about 2,000 hours a year.
Count each case once, under its most serious outcome, the way it is logged on the 300.
Your industry
Don't know your code? Type a few words and pick the closest match. Or leave it blank to compare with all industries.
How the rates are calculated
Each rate is the number of cases times 200,000, divided by the total hours worked by all employees. The 200,000 is 100 full-time employees working 40 hours a week for 50 weeks, so every rate reads as cases per 100 full-time workers. That is what makes a 40-person company and a 400-person company comparable.
DART counts cases, not days. A case with days away from work or a job transfer or restriction counts once, however long it lasted.
The industry rates are national averages from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics for 2024. Where BLS doesn't publish a rate for your specific industry, the comparison moves to the next broader category and tells you so.
Make sure the log is right first
The comparison is only as good as the 300 log behind it. The recordkeeping criteria can be confusing, and we often see first aid cases logged as recordable, or one case counted twice. An overstated log makes your rate look worse than it is, and project owners and customers may see that number.
If you have questions about what belongs on the log, we can review your recordable cases and your 300 log with you.
OSHA recordkeeping
OSHA requires the 300A summary to be completed and posted every year. Depending on your size and industry, you may also need to submit your log data to OSHA electronically.
We offer free OSHA recordkeeping software for the 300 log, the 300A summary and the 301 incident report. It notifies key people in your company and your insurance company when an injury happens, and submits to OSHA electronically when required. See OSHA recordkeeping or contact us for access.
Start with a conversation
Send your comparison along with what you're seeing. I read these myself and reply within two business days.
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