Air compressors manufacturing · Virginia

Bauer Compressors, Inc

Norfolk, VA · ~235 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bauer Compressors, Inc runs at 39% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Air compressors manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Bauer Compressors, Inc: 1.3 TCR = 39% of Air compressors manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bauer Compressors, Inc safety composite

Bauer Compressors, Inc scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 64% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 12%), 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

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.14 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

Bauer Compressors, Inc: 1.2 → 2.4 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 2.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.65× in 2023

Bauer Compressors, Inc's TCR rose 1.2 from 1.2 in 2016 to 2.4 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.65× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333912 · Norfolk, VA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.3 · 39% of ind

  • DART 2.1 DART
  • RANK P64
  • PHOTO Quincy Compressor LL…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 26 inj
  • SIZE ~235 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Quincy Compressor LLC (Northeast Region) (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bauer Compressors, Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bauer Compressors, Inc averages 1.3 TCR (39% of the Air compressors manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-09-26

Bauer Compressors, Inc TCR series: 2016=1.2 · 2017=1.2 · 2018=2 · 2019=0.9 · 2020=0.3 · 2021=1.9 · 2022=0.4 · 2023=2.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Bauer Compressors, Inc falls in its industry

128 Air compressors manufacturing establishments

Safer than 64% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Bauer Compressors, Inc (235 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 1.7 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Bauer Compressors, Inc
Bauer Compressors, Inc (235 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 1.7

Bauer Compressors, Inc has more employees than the Air compressors manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.7. 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
2023 2.4 2.1 8 0 0
2022 0.4 0.4 1 0 0
2021 1.9 1.9 2 2 0
2020 0.3 0.3 1 0 0
2019 0.9 0.3 3 0 0
2018 2.0 0.4 5 0 0
2017 1.2 0.0 3 0 0
2016 1.2 0.0 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333912 · VA · Norfolk

128 Air compressors manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 473 employers in Norfolk, 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 Quincy Compressor LLC (Northeast Region) 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gardner Denver-Ingersoll Rand Sedalia MO 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR CTIP Edwards Vacuum Haverhill 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Compression Technologies and Services : SVC-Davidson-RTC USA 1.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE FedEx 13500 EDS DRIVE 235 FTE
STATE-SIZE Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of Northern Virginia 235 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Virginia Home 235 FTE
STATE-SIZE 029-00523 235 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sentara Norfolk General Hospital 4,863 FTE
CITY-NEAR Childrens Hospital of The Kings Dau 3,707 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Atlantic Group dba DZ Atlantic 3,248 FTE
CITY-NEAR Norfolk State University 2,981 FTE
NAT-TCR 6232 Crossroads 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Crestwood Behavioral Health Shoreline 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Connecticut Municipal Electric Energy Cooperative 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Baker International Inc 1.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Southern Orchards Management 235 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bethesda Hospital (HealthEast) 235 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gudenkauf 235 FTE
NAT-SIZE CVR Crude Transportation 235 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 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.