Flats, wood, greenhouse, manufacturing · Virginia

American Color Inc.

Orange, VA · ~99 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

American Color Inc. runs at 148% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Flats, wood, greenhouse, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

American Color Inc.: 4.9 TCR = 148% of Flats, wood, greenhouse, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

American Color Inc. safety composite

American Color Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 87% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

C

69/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% 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%).

TCR Δ

−7.1

2020→2024

American Color Inc. injury rate improved

American Color Inc.'s TCR fell 7.1 from 8.5 in 2020 to 1.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 8.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=8.5 · 2024=1.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321920 · Orange, VA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.9 · 148% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #9/15
  • PHOTO Martin Pallet, Inc.
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~99 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Martin Pallet, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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American Color Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows American Color Inc. averages 4.9 TCR (148% of the Flats, wood, greenhouse, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

American Color Inc. TCR series: 2020=8.5 · 2024=1.3 · BLS 3.3

Where American Color Inc. falls in its industry

952 Flats, wood, greenhouse, manuf establishments

Safer than 64% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 15 Flats, wood, greenhouse, manuf employers in Virginia.

American Color Inc. (99 employees, TCR 4.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 6.3 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate American Color Inc.
American Color Inc. (99 employees, TCR 4.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 6.3

American Color Inc. has more employees than the Flats, wood, greenhouse, manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.3. 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 1.3 0.0 1 0 0
2020 8.5 5.4 10 4 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321920 · VA · Orange

952 Flats, wood, greenhouse, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 15 employers in Orange, 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 Martin Pallet, Inc. 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Millwood, Inc. South River 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Graphic Pallet and Transport, Inc 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Superior Pallets Lancaster 4.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE LEO Construction Co. 99 FTE
STATE-SIZE Maddox Air & Electrical 99 FTE
STATE-SIZE Minton and Roberson Inc. 99 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mainland 99 FTE
CITY-NEAR ZAMMA 237 FTE
CITY-NEAR Professional Tools - Orange 152 FTE
CITY-NEAR AWC 139 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ridgid Products 138 FTE
NAT-TCR Beloit Memorial Hospital 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Program Maintenance Inc 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Bender Plumbing Supplies of Waterbury, Inc. 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 1610 Web28 4.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE NCP Coatings, LLC 99 FTE
NAT-SIZE W&W|AFCO Steel Van Buren 99 FTE
NAT-SIZE R.D. Graham Electric LLC 99 FTE
NAT-SIZE K.W Reese Inc 99 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, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.