Nut hulling and shelling · Virginia

Birdsong Corporation - Suffolk

Suffolk, VA · ~186 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.6
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Birdsong Corporation - Suffolk runs at 35% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Nut hulling and shelling workplace, earning a grade A.

Birdsong Corporation - Suffolk: 1.6 TCR = 35% of Nut hulling and shelling BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Birdsong Corporation - Suffolk safety composite

Birdsong Corporation - Suffolk scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 74% 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).

D

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Birdsong Corporation - Suffolk: 1.5 → 2.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 2.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.35× in 2024

Birdsong Corporation - Suffolk's TCR rose 0.6 from 1.5 in 2022 to 2.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.35× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 115114 · Suffolk, VA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.6 · 35% of ind

  • DART 0.6 DART
  • RANK #3/8
  • PHOTO Grinnell, IA-PS
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~186 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Grinnell, IA-PS (0.0 TCR gap)

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Birdsong Corporation - Suffolk in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Birdsong Corporation - Suffolk averages 1.6 TCR (35% of the Nut hulling and shelling BLS benchmark).

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

Birdsong Corporation - Suffolk TCR series: 2022=1.5 · 2023=1 · 2024=2.2 · BLS 4.5

Where Birdsong Corporation - Suffolk falls in its industry

666 Nut hulling and shelling establishments

Safer than 74% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 8 Nut hulling and shelling employers in Virginia.

Birdsong Corporation - Suffolk (186 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 3.2 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 05001,0001,5002,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Birdsong Corporation - Suffolk
Birdsong Corporation - Suffolk (186 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Birdsong Corporation - Suffolk has more employees than the Nut hulling and shelling median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.2. 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 2.2 0.6 4 0 1
2023 1.0 0.5 1 1 0
2022 1.5 0.5 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

115114 · VA · Suffolk

666 Nut hulling and shelling employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 161 employers in Suffolk, 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 Grinnell, IA-PS 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Remington Plant 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Huxley, IA 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Camilla Golden Peanut Treenut Pecan Shelling 1.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Merritt Management Corp - Merritt Construction Services - VA 186 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gala Industries, Inc. 186 FTE
STATE-SIZE 10534 Ashburn 186 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lynchburg Distribution 186 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - ORF3 3,196 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3841 - UDC-Suffolk 1,700 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3841 - Suffolk UDC 1,478 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sentara Obici Hospital 1,384 FTE
NAT-TCR McElroy Contract Packaging. Inc. 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR RPM Innovations, Inc. 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Web Industries Inc, dba Anderson Chrysler 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Colonial Cartage Corporation 1.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Selby General Hospital 186 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1809 - Philadelphia Roosevelt Blvd 186 FTE
NAT-SIZE Merritt Management Corp - Merritt Construction Services - MD 186 FTE
NAT-SIZE Multifab Inc 186 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.