Soft Drink Manufacturing · Virginia

Blue Ridge Va (Gatorade)

Wytheville, VA · ~337 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Blue Ridge Va (Gatorade) runs at 56% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Soft Drink Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Blue Ridge Va (Gatorade): 1.9 TCR = 56% of Soft Drink Manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Blue Ridge Va (Gatorade) safety composite

Blue Ridge Va (Gatorade) scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 85% 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

76/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% 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

2016→2023

Blue Ridge Va (Gatorade) injury rate improved

Blue Ridge Va (Gatorade)'s TCR fell 3.0 from 3.5 in 2016 to 0.6 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2017 at 3.8 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.16× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=3.5 · 2017=3.8 · 2018=2.1 · 2019=1.2 · 2020=0.0 · 2022=1.9 · 2023=0.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade B · TCR 1.9 · 56% of ind

  • DART 0.3 DART
  • RANK #5/15
  • PHOTO BDF - Mechanicsburg PA
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 36 inj
  • SIZE ~337 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: BDF - Mechanicsburg PA (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 1.9 TCR (56% 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: 2016=3.5 · 2017=3.8 · 2018=2.1 · 2019=1.2 · 2020=0 · 2022=1.9 · 2023=0.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Blue Ridge Va (Gatorade) falls in its industry

516 Soft Drink Manufacturing establishments

Safer than 85% 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 #5 safest of 15 Soft Drink Manufacturing employers in Virginia.

Blue Ridge Va (Gatorade) (337 employees, TCR 1.9) 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) (337 employees, TCR 1.9) 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
2023 0.6 0.3 1 1 0
2022 1.9 0.6 5 2 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 1.2 0.6 3 1 0
2018 2.1 0.3 2 5 0
2017 3.8 2.6 12 1 0
2016 3.5 3.0 13 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 BDF - Mechanicsburg PA 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR KISSIMMEE FL (GATORADE) 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR MI - Holland - 777 Brooks Avenue - PL 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR TOLLESON AZ (GATORADE) 1.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Chewning & Wilmer, Inc. 337 FTE
STATE-SIZE Axalta Coating Systems LLC Front Royal Plant 337 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2089 337 FTE
STATE-SIZE Spectrum Brands 336 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mount Rogers Community Services 700 FTE
CITY-NEAR WYTHEVILLE VA 378 FTE
CITY-NEAR Somic America 376 FTE
CITY-NEAR BLUE RIDGE VA GATORADE 374 FTE
NAT-TCR Brookwood Medical EVS 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Thermal Tech,Inc. 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Tecumseh tupelo 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Fairfield Inn & Suites 1.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE West Pharmaceuticals Inc 337 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Dingley Press, Inc 337 FTE
NAT-SIZE Golden Empire Transit District 337 FTE
NAT-SIZE Zumbiel Packaging 337 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.