Pipe, rigid plastics, manufacturing · Virginia

ADS Buena Vista

Buena Vista, VA · ~56 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

ADS Buena Vista runs at 172% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Pipe, rigid plastics, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

ADS Buena Vista: 5.7 TCR = 172% of Pipe, rigid plastics, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

ADS Buena Vista safety composite

ADS Buena Vista scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 28%), 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).

D

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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%).

TCR Δ

−7.3

2016→2018

ADS Buena Vista injury rate improved

ADS Buena Vista's TCR fell 7.3 from 10.6 in 2016 to 3.3 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2016 at 10.6 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.29× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=10.6 · 2017=3.2 · 2018=3.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326122 · Buena Vista, VA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.7 · 172% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK #4/6
  • PHOTO ADS Ludlow
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~56 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ADS Ludlow (0.1 TCR gap)

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ADS Buena Vista in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows ADS Buena Vista averages 5.7 TCR (172% of the Pipe, rigid plastics, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

ADS Buena Vista TCR series: 2016=10.6 · 2017=3.2 · 2018=3.3 · BLS 3.3

Where ADS Buena Vista falls in its industry

332 Pipe, rigid plastics, manufact establishments

Safer than 28% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 6 Pipe, rigid plastics, manufact employers in Virginia.

ADS Buena Vista (56 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.7 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate ADS Buena Vista
ADS Buena Vista (56 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.7

ADS Buena Vista has fewer employees than the Pipe, rigid plastics, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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
2018 3.3 1.6 2 0 0
2017 3.2 3.2 2 0 0
2016 10.6 7.6 6 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326122 · VA · Buena Vista

332 Pipe, rigid plastics, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 19 employers in Buena Vista, 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 ADS Ludlow 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR NOV Fiber Glass Systems - Wichita 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Haviland Plastic Products 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Champion Fiberglass 5.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE PACKING HOUSE 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE PORTSMOUTH DIST 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE 206-NiSource-Fredericksburg VA-Commerce 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE Atlantic Contruction Utilities INC. 56 FTE
CITY-NEAR Modine Manufacturing Company - Buena Vista 217 FTE
CITY-NEAR Munters Corporation, Buena Vista, VA 211 FTE
CITY-NEAR Everbrite, LLC 113 FTE
CITY-NEAR Everbrite LLC - Buena Vista 110 FTE
NAT-TCR Power Services : Erlanger, KY, USA 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Monroe (Ncmon) 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR East Tennessee Materials and Energy Corporation (M&Ec) 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR store 11 5.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Maryland Parkway 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE 44974 - Carolina Service Center 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Save - Waimea 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE 10735 E. Hwy 40,LLC 56 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: 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.