An OSHA incident rate, most commonly expressed as TRIR (Total Recordable Incident Rate), measures OSHA-recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers per year: (Incidents × 200,000) ÷ Total Hours Worked. Per the most recent BLS data (2024, released January 2026), the private-industry average TRIR is 2.3, and construction now runs at roughly 2.2—essentially matching the national average rather than running above it, as it historically has.
Owners frequently use TRIR alongside a contractor's EMR as a combined safety screen. TRIR reflects the current year's incidents, while EMR carries a three-year lookback with reporting lag, so it's the metric a contractor's safety improvements show up in fastest. A wound treated immediately with basic first aid stays off the OSHA 300 log entirely; the same wound treated hours later, after infection has set in, typically crosses into medical treatment beyond first aid and becomes recordable.
That gap between "treated immediately" and "treated hours later" is the same clinical decision point that drives both TRIR and EMR—see: Jobsite Safety. The OnMed CareStation® puts a licensed clinician at the point of injury, closing the treatment-delay window that turns a minor, non-recordable injury into a recordable one.
TRIR = (Number of Recordable Incidents × 200,000) divided by Total Hours Worked by All Employees, per OSHA's methodology under 29 CFR Part 1904. The 200,000 figure represents the annual hours worked by 100 full-time employees.
The construction sector's average TRIR runs at approximately 2.4 recordable incidents per 100 full-time workers, per BLS data, slightly above the roughly 2.3 average across all private industry.
No. TRIR measures recordable injury frequency directly and near-real-time; EMR is an insurance-industry multiplier based on a three-year claims cost history with a built-in reporting lag. Owners often screen contractors using both metrics together.
Every term here points to the same gap in healthcare access. See how the CareStation closes it.
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