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What's a normal TRIR? The 2024 rate for every industry.
Private industry reported 2.3 recordable cases per 100 full-time workers in 2024. Transportation and warehousing ran 4.4. Finance and insurance ran 0.3. Find your industry and see where your TRIR sits.
Also calledIndustry average TRIR, TRIR benchmarks, Incident rate by industry
Type your TRIR to see where it sits.
Nothing leaves your browser. The published rate covers every employer in that industry, so a site with different work can sit above or below it for good reasons. Don’t know your TRIR? Use the calculator.
Total recordable rate by industry sector, 2024
Cases per 100 full-time workers, private industry. Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses, published January 22, 2026.
| Industry | NAICS | TRIR | Bar |
|---|---|---|---|
| All private industry | 2.3 | ||
| Transportation and warehousing | 48-49 | 4.4 | |
| Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting | 11 | 3.9 | |
| Arts, entertainment, and recreation | 71 | 3.9 | |
| Health care and social assistance | 62 | 3.4 | |
| Retail trade | 44-45 | 3.0 | |
| Manufacturing | 31-33 | 2.7 | |
| Accommodation and food services | 72 | 2.6 | |
| Construction | 23 | 2.2 | |
| Wholesale trade | 42 | 2.2 | |
| Utilities | 22 | 1.9 | |
| Other services (except public administration) | 81 | 1.9 | |
| Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services | 56 | 1.8 | |
| Educational services | 61 | 1.7 | |
| Real estate and rental and leasing | 53 | 1.6 | |
| Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction | 21 | 1.2 | |
| Information | 51 | 0.7 | |
| Professional, scientific, and technical services | 54 | 0.7 | |
| Management of companies and enterprises | 55 | 0.5 | |
| Finance and insurance | 52 | 0.3 |
Table 1 and the sector chart on bls.gov. Excludes farms with fewer than 11 employees.
Closer to your work: subsectors, 2024
| Subsector | NAICS | TRIR |
|---|---|---|
| Construction of buildings | 236 | 2.2 |
| Heavy and civil engineering construction | 237 | 1.8 |
| Specialty trade contractors | 238 | 2.3 |
| Food manufacturing | 311 | 3.3 |
| Fabricated metal product manufacturing | 332 | 3.2 |
| Transportation equipment manufacturing | 336 | 3.2 |
| Merchant wholesalers, durable goods | 423 | 1.8 |
| Merchant wholesalers, nondurable goods | 424 | 3.1 |
| Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers | 444 | 3.3 |
| Food and beverage stores | 445 | 3.7 |
| General merchandise stores | 452 | 4.4 |
| Air transportation | 481 | 6.5 |
| Truck transportation | 484 | 2.9 |
| Couriers and messengers | 492 | 8.0 |
| Warehousing and storage | 493 | 4.8 |
| Waste management and remediation services | 562 | 3.5 |
| Hospitals | 622 | 5.1 |
| Nursing and residential care facilities | 623 | 5.5 |
A selection. The full list, down to six-digit industries, is in BLS Table 1.
How to read it
Same math as your TRIR.
BLS counts the recordable cases employers report, then divides by hours worked. You can compare yours to it if you count the same way.
The formula. Recordable cases times 200,000, divided by the hours worked by all employees. The 200,000 is 100 workers at 2,000 hours each.
What it isn't. It's not a target and not a score. It's an average of every employer in the sector, small and large.
What to watch. Your own rate over time. A drop from last year says more than a gap to an average.
Next up: BLS publishes the 2025 rates on November 18, 2026, and the 2025 fatality counts on December 16, 2026. This page shows the 2024 rates until then. Figures are copied as BLS prints them. This is not legal advice, and it doesn’t decide what’s recordable. OSHA’s recordkeeping rules do.
Keep the records behind the rate.
Keep incident reports, near misses and corrective actions in one place, so the numbers behind your rate are on hand when you need them.
Common questions
- What is the average TRIR?
- For all private industry the BLS rate was 2.3 cases per 100 full-time workers in 2024, down from 2.4 in 2023. It differs a lot by industry, so compare yours with your own industry's rate in the table.
- Is the BLS rate the same as TRIR?
- It's the same arithmetic. BLS calls it the incidence rate of total recordable cases per 100 full-time workers. A TRIR is recordable cases times 200,000, divided by hours worked. The 200,000 stands for 100 workers at 2,000 hours each.
- What is a good TRIR?
- Lower is better, and there's no one number that's good for everybody. A common first check is whether you're below the published rate for your industry. Your own history, from year to year, tells you more than any average.
- Why does my TRIR differ from my industry's?
- The published rate covers every employer in a sector, from small shops to large plants, and sampling adds some error. A site with different work, a different size or a different reporting habit can sit above or below it for reasons that have nothing to do with how safe it is. Hours worked also move the number: a small crew with one case can have a high rate.
- When does BLS publish 2025 rates?
- BLS has scheduled the 2025 survey data for November 18, 2026, at 10:00 a.m. Eastern. This page shows 2024 rates until then.