Safety & Workforce worked example

OSHA Incident Rate with recordable incidents of 13 cases: a worked example

This scenario runs the osha incident rate calculation on the strong side: recordable incidents of 13 cases, with every other input held at its documented default. Use it to benchmark safety performance for Safety & Workforce against OSHA and industry averages.

The inputs for this scenario

  • Recordable incidents: 13 cases (raised for this scenario; the documented default is 5)
  • Total hours worked: 500,000 hr (unchanged)

Working through the calculation

  • Applying the documented formula (OSHA incident rate = recordable cases × 200,000 ÷ total hours worked) to the inputs above produces each figure below.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 5.2 per 100 workers for incident rate, the number this scenario is built around.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 13 cases for cases.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 500,000 hr for hours worked.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 250 FTE for full-time equivalents.

How this compares with the baseline

  • Against the tool's baseline example, where recordable incidents sits at 5 cases and the headline result is 2 per 100 workers, this scenario comes in 160% above the baseline at 5.2 per 100 workers.
  • Use it at month-, quarter-, and year-end to report TRIR on your EHS scorecard, prepare OSHA Form 300A summaries, or benchmark a site against NAICS industry averages. Treat this as a target state: the delta against the baseline quantifies what the improvement is worth before you commit to chasing it.

Results at a glance

  • Incident rate: 5.2 per 100 workers (headline result)
  • Cases: 13 cases
  • Hours worked: 500,000 hr
  • Full-time equivalents: 250 FTE

Run it with your numbers

  • Every input above is editable in the live OSHA Incident Rate calculator, which recalculates instantly and can be shared with the inputs intact.

Last reviewed 2026-05-12.