Athletic equipment and supply stores (including uniforms) · Virginia

Blade HQ, East

Marion, VA · ~48 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.5
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Blade HQ, East runs at 104% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Athletic equipment and supply stores (including uniforms) workplace, earning a grade C.

Blade HQ, East: 3.5 TCR = 104% of Athletic equipment and supply stores (including uniforms) BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Blade HQ, East safety composite

Blade HQ, East scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 78% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 49%), 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 3.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

−3.0

2022→2023

Blade HQ, East injury rate improved

Blade HQ, East's TCR fell 3.0 from 5.0 in 2022 to 2.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 5.0 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=5.0 · 2023=2.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 451110 · Marion, VA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.5 · 104% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #2/5
  • PHOTO Any Mountain - San J…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~48 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Any Mountain - San Jose - Vail Resorts Retail (0.0 TCR gap)

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Blade HQ, East in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Blade HQ, East averages 3.5 TCR (104% of the Athletic equipment and supply stores (including uniforms) BLS benchmark).

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

Blade HQ, East TCR series: 2022=5 · 2023=2 · BLS 3.4

Where Blade HQ, East falls in its industry

74 Athletic equipment and supply establishments

Safer than 49% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 5 Athletic equipment and supply employers in Virginia.

Blade HQ, East (48 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 170 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 05001,0001,5002,000 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Blade HQ, East
Blade HQ, East (48 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 170 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Blade HQ, East has fewer employees than the Athletic equipment and supply stores (in median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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
2023 2.0 0.0 1 0 0
2022 5.0 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

451110 · VA · Marion

74 Athletic equipment and supply stores (including uniforms) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 30 employers in Marion, 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 Any Mountain - San Jose - Vail Resorts Retail 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR PSA - Fernandina 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Berkeley Retail Store 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Running Logistics LLC 3.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE George's Stone Spring Hatchery 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Clinch River Plant 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE City of Manassas Electrical Utilities 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Athena Construction Group, Inc. 48 FTE
CITY-NEAR Southwestern Virginia Mental Health Institute 558 FTE
CITY-NEAR General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems Marion, VA 475 FTE
CITY-NEAR Royal Building Products - Marion 427 FTE
CITY-NEAR Westlake Royal Building Products Marion 368 FTE
NAT-TCR 1052 Hampton Twp School District 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 16 - Walsh Infrastructure Management, LLC 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Espanola Transit Mix, LLC 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Precision Materials and Logistics, LLC 3.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE AMPAC Fine Chemicals LLC - TX 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ozarks Go, LLC 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Arrow Construction Supply, LLC 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Trebor International 48 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: 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.