Sheriffs' offices (except court functions only) · Virginia

Bedford County Sheriff's Department

Bedford, VA · ~105 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.6
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bedford County Sheriff's Department runs at 332% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Sheriffs' offices (except court functions only) workplace, earning a grade F.

Bedford County Sheriff's Department: 10.6 TCR = 332% of Sheriffs' offices (except court functions only) BLS 3.2 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bedford County Sheriff's Department safety composite

Bedford County Sheriff's Department scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 23%), 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

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 10.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

Bedford County Sheriff's Department: 4.8 → 14.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 14.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.72× in 2024

Bedford County Sheriff's Department's TCR rose 9.6 from 4.8 in 2019 to 14.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.72× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922120 · Bedford, VA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 10.6 · 332% of ind

  • DART 7.7 DART
  • RANK #30/39
  • PHOTO City of Charleston -…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 62 inj
  • SIZE ~105 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: City of Charleston - Police Department (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bedford County Sheriff's Department in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bedford County Sheriff's Department averages 10.6 TCR (332% of the Sheriffs' offices (except court functions only) BLS benchmark).

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

Bedford County Sheriff's Department TCR series: 2019=4.8 · 2020=10.9 · 2021=9.1 · 2022=14.3 · 2023=10.2 · 2024=14.4 · BLS 3.2

Where Bedford County Sheriff's Department falls in its industry

716 Sheriffs' offices (except cour establishments

Safer than 43% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #30 safest of 39 Sheriffs' offices (except cour employers in Virginia.

Bedford County Sheriff's Department (105 employees, TCR 10.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 9.5 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 0200400600 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Bedford County Sheriff's Department
Bedford County Sheriff's Department (105 employees, TCR 10.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 9.5

Bedford County Sheriff's Department has more employees than the Sheriffs' offices (except court function median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 9.5. 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 14.4 7.7 15 0 0
2023 10.2 2.0 10 0 0
2022 14.3 4.4 13 0 0
2021 9.1 1.0 9 0 0
2020 10.9 0.0 10 0 0
2019 4.8 2.9 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922120 · VA · Bedford

716 Sheriffs' offices (except court functions only) 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 City of Charleston - Police Department 10.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jackson County Sheriff 10.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR SCS Police Department 10.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR OCSD SAFE Division - Brad Gates Office 10.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE S.W. Funk Industrial Contractors Inc. 105 FTE
STATE-SIZE Branch Builds, Inc. 105 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2900 BCD 105 FTE
STATE-SIZE Electrical Service 105 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 Ventura Family YMCA 10.6 TCR
NAT-TCR American Fence Company of Minnesota 10.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Niblock Excavating & Asphalt Inc 10.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Paxton Products Inc. 10.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Horizon Air Services Inc 105 FTE
NAT-SIZE Thermofisher Scientific 105 FTE
NAT-SIZE Associated Metalcast 105 FTE
NAT-SIZE Onondaga Center 105 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.