Garbage disposal landfills · Virginia

Bedford County Public Works

Bedford, VA · ~97 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bedford County Public Works runs at 193% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Garbage disposal landfills workplace, earning a grade D.

Bedford County Public Works: 5.0 TCR = 193% of Garbage disposal landfills BLS 2.6 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bedford County Public Works safety composite

Bedford County Public Works scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 78% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 34%), 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

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% 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

−2.1

2018→2024

Bedford County Public Works injury rate improved

Bedford County Public Works's TCR fell 2.1 from 3.9 in 2018 to 1.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 9.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=3.9 · 2019=9.2 · 2020=4.3 · 2021=5.6 · 2023=5.3 · 2024=1.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562212 · Bedford, VA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.0 · 193% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #9/15
  • PHOTO S04533 - Superior La…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~97 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: S04533 - Superior Landfill (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bedford County Public Works in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bedford County Public Works averages 5.0 TCR (193% of the Garbage disposal landfills BLS benchmark).

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

Bedford County Public Works TCR series: 2018=3.9 · 2019=9.2 · 2020=4.3 · 2021=5.6 · 2023=5.3 · 2024=1.8 · BLS 2.6

Where Bedford County Public Works falls in its industry

288 Garbage disposal landfills establishments

Safer than 34% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

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 Garbage disposal landfills employers in Virginia.

Bedford County Public Works (97 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 32 employees and a TCR of 3.9 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 050100150200 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Bedford County Public Works
Bedford County Public Works (97 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 32 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Bedford County Public Works has more employees than the Garbage disposal landfills median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.9. 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 1.8 0.0 1 0 0
2023 5.3 1.8 3 0 0
2021 5.6 1.9 3 0 0
2020 4.3 4.3 2 0 0
2019 9.2 3.7 5 0 0
2018 3.9 3.9 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562212 · VA · Bedford

288 Garbage disposal landfills employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 38 employers in Bedford, 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 S04533 - Superior Landfill 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Apex Environmental, LLC 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR S03099 - RCI Fitchburg Landfill 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Keystone Landfill, Inc. 5.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Riverbend Nursery 97 FTE
STATE-SIZE Noah Horn Well Drilling 97 FTE
STATE-SIZE EAST RICHMOND 97 FTE
STATE-SIZE Palmyra Operation 97 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1399 314 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1399 292 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sam Moore Furniture 216 FTE
CITY-NEAR 524 - BEDFORD 123 FTE
NAT-TCR AGI Polymatrix, LLC DBA Westfall Technik 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Searcy Country Club 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Buyers Products Company - 3UC 8200 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Tri-County Electric Cooperative 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Juniper Village at Lincoln Heights 97 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ramsey Excavating Company, Inc. 97 FTE
NAT-SIZE Naples Zoo 97 FTE
NAT-SIZE MJC, Inc. 97 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.