Food Services · Virginia

000019529 Virginia Tech Athletics

Blacksburg, VA · ~116 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
14.2
Avg TCR
3.0
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

000019529 Virginia Tech Athletics runs at 472% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Food Services workplace, earning a grade F.

000019529 Virginia Tech Athletics: 14.2 TCR = 472% of Food Services BLS 3.0 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

000019529 Virginia Tech Athletics safety composite

000019529 Virginia Tech Athletics scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 4%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

F

18/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 14.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

Rising injury rate

000019529 Virginia Tech Athletics: 14.2 → 65.3 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 65.3 TCR · DART/TCR 4.61× in 2024

000019529 Virginia Tech Athletics's TCR rose 51.2 from 14.2 in 2023 to 65.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 4.61× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 722310 · Blacksburg, VA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 14.2 · 472% of ind

  • DART 65.3 DART
  • RANK #206/212
  • PHOTO 000021107 WALMART HQ…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~116 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 000021107 WALMART HQ DGTC (0.0 TCR gap)

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000019529 Virginia Tech Athletics in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows 000019529 Virginia Tech Athletics averages 14.2 TCR (472% of the Food Services BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

000019529 Virginia Tech Athletics TCR series: 2023=14.2 · 2024=65.3 · BLS 3.0

Where 000019529 Virginia Tech Athletics falls in its industry

6,952 Food Services establishments

Safer than 4% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #206 safest of 212 Food Services employers in Virginia.

000019529 Virginia Tech Athletics (116 employees, TCR 14.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.5 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate 000019529 Virginia Tech Athletics
000019529 Virginia Tech Athletics (116 employees, TCR 14.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.5

000019529 Virginia Tech Athletics has more employees than the Food Services median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2024 65.3 65.3 1 0 0
2023 14.2 7.1 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

722310 · VA · Blacksburg

6,952 Food Services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 45 employers in Blacksburg, VA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR 000021107 WALMART HQ DGTC 14.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Thomas Cuisine @ CLOVIS HOSPITAL 14.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Presidio Catering 14.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR MCDANIEL COLLEGE (REMOTE MD)** 14.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE VA BEACH 116 FTE
STATE-SIZE Appomattox Operation 116 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ronile, Inc. 116 FTE
STATE-SIZE New Ravenna 116 FTE
CITY-NEAR New River Valley Community Services 780 FTE
CITY-NEAR Moog, Inc - Blacksburg Central 691 FTE
CITY-NEAR LewisGale Hospital Mongomery 525 FTE
CITY-NEAR Federal Mogul Blacksburg 518 FTE
NAT-TCR 202 Las Vegas 14.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Accurate Machine and Tool LLC 14.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Grove Services Inc of Miami 14.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Webb City Health and Rehabilitation Center 14.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE 2707 Roseville Mi 116 FTE
NAT-SIZE Apple Rehab Saybrook 116 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hidden Valley Manufacturing 116 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kingsford Mfg 116 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2024, 2023. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.