Heavy machinery and equipment repair and maintenance services · Virginia

Bowhead Support Group

Alexandria, VA · ~384 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.9
Avg TCR
2.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bowhead Support Group runs at 45% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Heavy machinery and equipment repair and maintenance services workplace, earning a grade A.

Bowhead Support Group: 0.9 TCR = 45% of Heavy machinery and equipment repair and maintenance services BLS 2.1 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bowhead Support Group safety composite

Bowhead Support Group scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 87% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (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

74/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 0.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.9

2016→2018

Bowhead Support Group injury rate improved

Bowhead Support Group's TCR fell 2.9 from 2.9 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2016 at 2.9 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=2.9 · 2017=0.0 · 2018=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 811310 · Alexandria, VA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.9 · 45% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #8/59
  • PHOTO Modern Machinery - B…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~384 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Modern Machinery - Boise (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bowhead Support Group in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bowhead Support Group averages 0.9 TCR (45% of the Heavy machinery and equipment repair and maintenance services BLS benchmark).

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

Bowhead Support Group TCR series: 2016=2.9 · 2017=0 · 2018=0 · BLS 2.1

Where Bowhead Support Group falls in its industry

2,560 Heavy machinery and equipment establishments

Safer than 87% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 59 Heavy machinery and equipment employers in Virginia.

Bowhead Support Group (384 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 2.7 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 0100200300400500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Bowhead Support Group
Bowhead Support Group (384 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 2.7

Bowhead Support Group has more employees than the Heavy machinery and equipment repair and median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.7. 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
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 2.9 2.5 14 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

811310 · VA · Alexandria

2,560 Heavy machinery and equipment repair and maintenance services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 335 employers in Alexandria, 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 Modern Machinery - Boise 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Magnetech Industrial Services, Inc. 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Brechbuhler Scales, Inc. 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4350 0.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Amsted Rail Company, Inc. 385 FTE
STATE-SIZE Atlantic Diving Supply INC 385 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 1465 383 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2136 385 FTE
CITY-NEAR Alexandria Rail Facility/Telegraph Road 1,964 FTE
CITY-NEAR Inova Alexandria Hospital 1,512 FTE
CITY-NEAR Alexandria Rail Yard 996 FTE
CITY-NEAR Inova Mount Vernon Hospital 950 FTE
NAT-TCR Sturdy Plant 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR MAVAR1 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Lendlease New York 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Mercy Family Clinic - Residency 0.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE TRW Automotive-Lafayette 384 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nassau Park 384 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stonyfield Farm, Inc. 384 FTE
NAT-SIZE Yarde Metals, Inc.: Connecticut 384 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: 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.