Tube blooms made by extruding purchased aluminum · Virginia

Bellwood Extrusion Plant

Richmond, VA · ~168 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Bellwood Extrusion Plant runs at 130% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Tube blooms made by extruding purchased aluminum workplace, earning a grade D.

Bellwood Extrusion Plant: 4.3 TCR = 130% of Tube blooms made by extruding purchased aluminum BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bellwood Extrusion Plant safety composite

Bellwood Extrusion Plant scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 42% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 1%), 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).

F

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 1% 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

−3.9

2016→2021

Bellwood Extrusion Plant injury rate improved

Bellwood Extrusion Plant's TCR fell 3.9 from 7.3 in 2016 to 3.4 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2016 at 7.3 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.4× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=7.3 · 2017=3.5 · 2019=5.9 · 2020=1.3 · 2021=3.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331318 · Richmond, VA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.3 · 130% of ind

  • DART 1.7 DART
  • RANK #6/8
  • PHOTO Catalina Cylinders G…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 34 inj
  • SIZE ~168 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Catalina Cylinders Garden Grove (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bellwood Extrusion Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bellwood Extrusion Plant averages 4.3 TCR (130% of the Tube blooms made by extruding purchased aluminum BLS benchmark).

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

Bellwood Extrusion Plant TCR series: 2016=7.3 · 2017=3.5 · 2019=5.9 · 2020=1.3 · 2021=3.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Bellwood Extrusion Plant falls in its industry

204 Tube blooms made by extruding establishments

Safer than 32% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 8 Tube blooms made by extruding employers in Virginia.

Bellwood Extrusion Plant (168 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 144 employees and a TCR of 2.9 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Bellwood Extrusion Plant
Bellwood Extrusion Plant (168 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 144 employees and a TCR of 2.9

Bellwood Extrusion Plant has more employees than the Tube blooms made by extruding purchased median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.9. 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
2021 3.4 1.7 5 1 0
2020 1.3 0.0 2 0 0
2019 5.9 2.9 10 0 0
2017 3.5 2.9 6 0 0
2016 7.3 3.1 11 3 1

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331318 · VA · Richmond

204 Tube blooms made by extruding purchased aluminum employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 939 employers in Richmond, 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 Catalina Cylinders Garden Grove 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Merit Aluminum Inc (Building #2) 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nanshan America AAT LLC 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR DDB Unlimited, Inc. 4.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE CHESTFLD PW ST 168 FTE
STATE-SIZE New Market Poultry, LLC 168 FTE
STATE-SIZE 029-00210 168 FTE
STATE-SIZE 029-00375 168 FTE
CITY-NEAR VCU Health System 14,536 FTE
CITY-NEAR Virginia Commonwealth University 11,826 FTE
CITY-NEAR VCU 5,271 FTE
CITY-NEAR CJW Medical Center 3,259 FTE
NAT-TCR Diamond Plastics Corp - Macon 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Kraft Heinz Company 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Reimers Kaufman Block Comapny 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR CA- Medical Depot, Inc 4.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Monarch Mountain 168 FTE
NAT-SIZE OKC Lid Plant 168 FTE
NAT-SIZE ExxonMobil Blending and Packaging 168 FTE
NAT-SIZE Plumrose USA, Inc. CB2 168 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.