Soft Drink Manufacturing · Virginia

Blue Ridge Va Gatorade

Wytheville, VA · ~374 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Blue Ridge Va Gatorade runs at 34% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Soft Drink Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Blue Ridge Va Gatorade: 1.1 TCR = 34% of Soft Drink Manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Blue Ridge Va Gatorade safety composite

Blue Ridge Va Gatorade scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 91% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

B

78/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 91% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% 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

−0.7

2021→2024

Blue Ridge Va Gatorade injury rate improved

Blue Ridge Va Gatorade's TCR fell 0.7 from 1.5 in 2021 to 0.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 1.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.47× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=1.5 · 2024=0.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 312111 · Wytheville, VA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.1 · 34% of ind

  • DART 0.5 DART
  • RANK #3/15
  • PHOTO 280 Sandston PC
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~374 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 280 Sandston PC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Blue Ridge Va Gatorade in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Blue Ridge Va Gatorade averages 1.1 TCR (34% of the Soft Drink Manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Blue Ridge Va Gatorade TCR series: 2021=1.5 · 2024=0.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Blue Ridge Va Gatorade falls in its industry

516 Soft Drink Manufacturing establishments

Safer than 91% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

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 15 Soft Drink Manufacturing employers in Virginia.

Blue Ridge Va Gatorade (374 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 149 employees and a TCR of 4.8 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 02004006008001,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Blue Ridge Va Gatorade
Blue Ridge Va Gatorade (374 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 149 employees and a TCR of 4.8

Blue Ridge Va Gatorade has more employees than the Soft Drink Manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.8. 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 0.8 0.5 2 1 0
2021 1.5 0.9 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

312111 · VA · Wytheville

516 Soft Drink Manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 56 employers in Wytheville, 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 280 Sandston PC 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sunny Delight Beverages Company 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR SHASTA BEVERAGES INC BALTIMORE 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc., Henderson 1.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Automation and Controls : Charlottesville, VA 374 FTE
STATE-SIZE Aerojet Rocketdyne - Orange 374 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 3639 374 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jacobs Tidewater Operations Group 374 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mount Rogers Community Services 700 FTE
CITY-NEAR WYTHEVILLE VA 378 FTE
CITY-NEAR Somic America 376 FTE
CITY-NEAR WYTHE COUNTY COMMUNITY HOSPITAL LLC 349 FTE
NAT-TCR D88 Phoenix 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Schindler Clinton Escalator Plant 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Marc Glassman Inc 48SM 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Atlantic Aviation - PDX 1.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE North Central College 374 FTE
NAT-SIZE Al John Inc 374 FTE
NAT-SIZE Christ the King Manor Inc. 374 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bradford Regional Medical Center 374 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, 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.