Electrical contractors · Virginia

Blackwater Electric Inc.

Chesapeake, VA · ~187 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.5
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Blackwater Electric Inc. runs at 54% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Electrical contractors workplace, earning a grade B.

Blackwater Electric Inc.: 1.5 TCR = 54% of Electrical contractors BLS 2.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Blackwater Electric Inc. safety composite

Blackwater Electric Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 68% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 51%), 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

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 68% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Blackwater Electric Inc.: 0.5 → 1.9 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 2.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.32× in 2024

Blackwater Electric Inc.'s TCR rose 1.4 from 0.5 in 2022 to 1.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 2.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.32× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238210 · Chesapeake, VA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 1.5 · 54% of ind

  • DART 0.5 DART
  • RANK #37/80
  • PHOTO Robinson Electric Co…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~187 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Robinson Electric Company, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Blackwater Electric Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Blackwater Electric Inc. averages 1.5 TCR (54% of the Electrical contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Blackwater Electric Inc. TCR series: 2022=0.5 · 2023=2.1 · 2024=1.9 · BLS 2.8

Where Blackwater Electric Inc. falls in its industry

4,550 Electrical contractors establishments

Safer than 68% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #37 safest of 80 Electrical contractors employers in Virginia.

Blackwater Electric Inc. (187 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Blackwater Electric Inc.
Blackwater Electric Inc. (187 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Blackwater Electric Inc. has more employees than the Electrical contractors median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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 1.9 0.5 4 0 0
2023 2.1 0.0 4 0 0
2022 0.5 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238210 · VA · Chesapeake

4,550 Electrical contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 434 employers in Chesapeake, 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 Robinson Electric Company, Inc. 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Network Cabling Infrastructure Inc. 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Collins Electric Company, Inc. 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Madison Electric, Inc. 1.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Caton Construction Group, Inc. 187 FTE
STATE-SIZE VA Offices Baker Roofing LLC 187 FTE
STATE-SIZE Guernsey, Inc. 187 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1186 LOWE S OF HAMPTON VA 187 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - ORF2 2,432 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chesapeake Regional Medical Center 2,059 FTE
CITY-NEAR QVC Chesapeake, Inc. 1,056 FTE
CITY-NEAR Crossways 931 FTE
NAT-TCR TX Midland 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Martinrea Tuscaloosa, Inc. 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Cunningham DeLaney Construction 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Magnolia Marketplace LLC 1.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Opp Health and Rehabilitation, LLC 187 FTE
NAT-SIZE Prattville Health and Rehabilitation, LLC 187 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bluffton, IN 187 FTE
NAT-SIZE Arcade Beauty - Dayton 187 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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