Fish farms, finfish · Virginia

Blue Ridge Aquaculture

Ridgeway, VA · ~34 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Blue Ridge Aquaculture runs at 89% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Fish farms, finfish workplace, earning a grade C.

Blue Ridge Aquaculture: 4.0 TCR = 89% of Fish farms, finfish BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Blue Ridge Aquaculture safety composite

Blue Ridge Aquaculture scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 75% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 48%), 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

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 3.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% of industry peers

DART rate
D 4.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.7

2021→2024

Blue Ridge Aquaculture injury rate improved

Blue Ridge Aquaculture's TCR fell 0.7 from 5.6 in 2021 to 4.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 5.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.22× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=5.6 · 2022=2.8 · 2023=2.8 · 2024=4.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 112511 · Ridgeway, VA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 4.0 · 89% of ind

  • DART 4.9 DART
  • RANK P75
  • PHOTO Mt. Lassen Trout Far…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~34 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Mt. Lassen Trout Farms, Inc. (0.1 TCR gap)

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Blue Ridge Aquaculture in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Blue Ridge Aquaculture averages 4.0 TCR (89% of the Fish farms, finfish BLS benchmark).

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

Blue Ridge Aquaculture TCR series: 2021=5.6 · 2022=2.8 · 2023=2.8 · 2024=4.9 · BLS 4.5

Where Blue Ridge Aquaculture falls in its industry

28 Fish farms, finfish establishments

Safer than 75% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Blue Ridge Aquaculture (34 employees, TCR 4.0) among 14 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 27 employees and a TCR of 6.1 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 15 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 050100150200250300 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Blue Ridge Aquaculture
Blue Ridge Aquaculture (34 employees, TCR 4.0) among 14 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 27 employees and a TCR of 6.1

Blue Ridge Aquaculture has more employees than the Fish farms, finfish median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.1. 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 4.9 4.9 2 0 0
2023 2.8 2.8 1 0 0
2022 2.8 2.8 1 0 0
2021 5.6 2.8 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

112511 · VA · Ridgeway

28 Fish farms, finfish employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 20 employers in Ridgeway, 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 Mt. Lassen Trout Farms, Inc. 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR R&G Fish LLC 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hudson Valley Fish Farm Inc 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Atlantic Sapphire 4.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Williams Logging Inc. 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE BEAR GARDEN 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE INGENCO/CCI Dabney 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE City Point Energy Center 34 FTE
CITY-NEAR 5166 Martinsville Assembly 266 FTE
CITY-NEAR Drake Extrusion 214 FTE
CITY-NEAR Drake Extusion 163 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nilit America, Inc. 151 FTE
NAT-TCR Conco Inc 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Lrbg Chemicals (USA) Inc. 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Flowers Baking Company of Villa Rica, LLC 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Oak Grove 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Classic Recreation Systems 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hodge Tool 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cent-Roll Products 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cleanpart Southwest 34 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. 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.