Surgical knife blades and handles manufacturing · Virginia

Cadence Inc. Virginia

Name: Cadence Inc. Virginia Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

Staunton, VA · ~200 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

C
Average Safety Record: 3.4
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Cadence Inc. Virginia runs at 104% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Surgical knife blades and handles manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Cadence Inc. Virginia: 3.4 TCR = 104% of Surgical knife blades and handles manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cadence Inc. Virginia safety composite

Cadence Inc. Virginia scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 15%), 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).

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 3.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% of industry peers
DART rate: F 1.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% 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

−7.1

2017→2021

Cadence Inc. Virginia injury rate improved

Cadence Inc. Virginia's TCR fell 7.1 from 8.8 in 2017 to 1.7 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2017 at 8.8 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.33× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=8.8 · 2018=3.6 · 2019=1.3 · 2020=1.7 · 2021=1.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 339112 · Staunton, VA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.4 · 104% of ind

DART 1.1 DART
RANK #4/4
PHOTO Domico Med Device
BOOK 5y book
INJ 19 inj
SIZE ~200 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Domico Med Device (0.0 TCR gap)

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Precision Medi

3.5
This site

3.4
Domico Med Dev

3.4
Telelfex Medic

3.4
Huntley TEQ -

3.4

What this shows Cadence Inc. Virginia averages 3.4 TCR (104% of the Surgical knife blades and handles manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Cadence Inc. Virginia TCR series: 2017=8.8 · 2018=3.6 · 2019=1.3 · 2020=1.7 · 2021=1.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Cadence Inc. Virginia falls in its industry

741 Surgical knife blades and hand establishments

Safer than 15% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.5.

Grade C

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 4 Surgical knife blades and hand employers in Virginia.

Cadence Inc. Virginia (200 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 174 employees and a TCR of 1.5

Cadence Inc. Virginia has more employees than the Surgical knife blades and handles manufa median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.5. 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
2021	1.7	1.1	3
2020	1.7	0.6	3
2019	1.3	0.5	3
2018	3.6	3.2	8
2017	8.8	8.8	2

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

339112 · VA · Staunton

741 Surgical knife blades and handles manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 73 employers in Staunton, VA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Domico Med Device	FENTON, MI	3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Precision Medical Technologies North Manchester	NORTH MANCHESTER, IN	3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Telelfex Medical	CHELMSFORD, MA	3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Huntley TEQ - F315	HUNTLEY, IL	3.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Vie de France Alexandria VA	ALEXANDRIA	200 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Luray, Virginia	LURAY	200 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Aerofin	LYNCHBURG	200 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Moog Aspen Motion Technologies, Inc	RADFORD	200 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Western State Hospital	Staunton	762 FTE
CITY-NEAR	1344	Staunton	329 FTE
CITY-NEAR	WM 1344	Staunton	324 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Staunton VA	Staunton	204 FTE
NAT-TCR	Jarrell	Earth City, MO	3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR	Central Plains Steel Co.	Los Angeles, CA	3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR	Eagle Transport Corporation - Charlotte	Charlotte, NC	3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR	Westcoast Warehousing, LLC	Compton, CA	3.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Colony Factory Crafted Homes	Shippenville, PA	200 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Seymour Operations	Seymour, IN	200 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Sringdale	Springdale, AR	200 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Converters	Jacksonville, FL	200 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.