Aqueduct construction · Virginia

Bedford Regional Water Authority

Bedford, VA · ~55 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.2
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bedford Regional Water Authority runs at 114% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Aqueduct construction workplace, earning a grade C.

Bedford Regional Water Authority: 3.2 TCR = 114% of Aqueduct construction BLS 2.8 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bedford Regional Water Authority safety composite

Bedford Regional Water Authority scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 79% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 47%), 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

59/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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 Regional Water Authority: 1.8 → 3.7 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 5.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Bedford Regional Water Authority's TCR rose 1.9 from 1.8 in 2019 to 3.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 5.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237110 · Bedford, VA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.2 · 114% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #23/48
  • PHOTO G.D. Nielson Constru…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~55 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: G.D. Nielson Construction, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bedford Regional Water Authority in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bedford Regional Water Authority averages 3.2 TCR (114% of the Aqueduct construction BLS benchmark).

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

Bedford Regional Water Authority TCR series: 2019=1.8 · 2020=3.5 · 2021=5.2 · 2022=3.4 · 2023=1.6 · 2024=3.7 · BLS 2.8

Where Bedford Regional Water Authority falls in its industry

1,614 Aqueduct construction establishments

Safer than 47% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #23 safest of 48 Aqueduct construction employers in Virginia.

Bedford Regional Water Authority (55 employees, TCR 3.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Bedford Regional Water Authority
Bedford Regional Water Authority (55 employees, TCR 3.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Bedford Regional Water Authority has more employees than the Aqueduct construction median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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 3.7 0.0 1 1 0
2023 1.6 1.6 0 1 0
2022 3.4 3.4 2 0 0
2021 5.2 5.2 1 2 0
2020 3.5 0.0 2 0 0
2019 1.8 1.8 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237110 · VA · Bedford

1,614 Aqueduct construction 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 G.D. Nielson Construction, Inc. 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sanders Utility Construction Co., Inc. 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR SCW Contracting Corporation 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Oscar Renda Contracting Inc.-Company Wide 3.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hendrix 55 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gregory Pallet & Lumber Roanoke 55 FTE
STATE-SIZE Trump Vineyard Estates LLC 55 FTE
STATE-SIZE SERVPRO of Chesapeake 55 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 Swagelok Hose 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Pumpman - Waterworks 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Norland International Inc./American Beer Equipmen 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR I485 3.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ptcr Reading 55 FTE
NAT-SIZE Biomark Inc 55 FTE
NAT-SIZE Camp Warren 55 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fort Worth Downtown Hampton Inn & Suites 55 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.