Computer software consulting services or consultants · Virginia

By Light

Mclean, VA · ~1,004 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
0.6
Avg TCR
0.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

By Light runs at 110% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Computer software consulting services or consultants workplace, earning a grade C.

By Light: 0.6 TCR = 110% of Computer software consulting services or consultants BLS 0.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

By Light safety composite

By Light scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 22%), 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).

F

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 0.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% of industry peers

DART rate
F 0.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% 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%).

Rising injury rate

By Light: 0.4 → 1.0 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 1.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.67× in 2024

By Light's TCR rose 0.6 from 0.4 in 2022 to 1.0 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.67× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 541512 · Mclean, VA ABOVE-IND · LARGE

Grade C · TCR 0.6 · 110% of ind

  • DART 0.4 DART
  • RANK #13/17
  • PHOTO HMNBM01
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~1,004 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: HMNBM01 (0.0 TCR gap)

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By Light in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows By Light averages 0.6 TCR (110% of the Computer software consulting services or consultants BLS benchmark).

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

By Light TCR series: 2022=0.4 · 2023=0.2 · 2024=1 · BLS 0.5

Where By Light falls in its industry

181 Computer software consulting s establishments

Safer than 35% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 0.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 17 Computer software consulting s employers in Virginia.

By Light (1,004 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 292 employees and a TCR of 0.3 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 012345 Average employees Total Case Rate By Light
By Light (1,004 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 292 employees and a TCR of 0.3

By Light has more employees than the Computer software consulting services or median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 0.3. 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 1.0 0.4 11 0 0
2023 0.2 0.0 2 0 0
2022 0.4 0.1 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

541512 · VA · Mclean

181 Computer software consulting services or consultants employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 101 employers in Mclean, 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 HMNBM01 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR SJC Information Services 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR GY3 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Accent Controls, Inc HQ 0.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE McKeed Foods Corporation - Stuarts Draft facility 1,004 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corporate 090 1,006 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lockheed Martin Corporation Manassas Campus (1030) 1,001 FTE
STATE-SIZE LifeNet Health Concert Drive 1,001 FTE
CITY-NEAR 44164 INDP MCLEAN VA HILTON WORLD HEADQUARTER 2,070 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tysons 1,670 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4263-44164 1,650 FTE
CITY-NEAR Southern Management Companies 1,560 FTE
NAT-TCR Janssen Pharmaceuticals Raritan 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR GRAD Annapolis 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR PCTM Construction Corp. 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Atg - Stm 0.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Kyarp - Air Group Building 1,004 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jennie Stuart Medical Center 1,004 FTE
NAT-SIZE KnowBe4, Inc 1,004 FTE
NAT-SIZE Trinity Health of New England 1,004 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. 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.