Steel mills · Virginia

CHAPARRAL (VIRGINIA) INC. DBA Gerdau

Name: CHAPARRAL (VIRGINIA) INC. DBA Gerdau Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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North Dinwiddie, VA · ~365 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

A
Excellent Safety Record: 1.4
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

CHAPARRAL (VIRGINIA) INC. DBA Gerdau runs at 41% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Steel mills workplace, earning a grade A.

CHAPARRAL (VIRGINIA) INC. DBA Gerdau: 1.4 TCR = 41% of Steel mills BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

CHAPARRAL (VIRGINIA) INC. DBA Gerdau safety composite

CHAPARRAL (VIRGINIA) INC. DBA Gerdau scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 75% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 53%), 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).

68/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): B 1.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% of industry peers
DART rate: C 0.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% of industry peers
Fatalities: D 0

Safer than 53% 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%).

CHAPARRAL (VIRGINIA) INC. DBA Gerdau held a steady TCR band

CHAPARRAL (VIRGINIA) INC. DBA Gerdau's TCR held near 0.1 from 1.6 in 2016 to 1.7 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 0.18× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=1.6 · 2019=0.7 · 2020=1.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331110 · North Dinwiddie, VA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.4 · 41% of ind

DART 0.2 DART
RANK P75
PHOTO North Star BlueScope…
BOOK 3y book
INJ 17 inj
SIZE ~365 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: North Star BlueScope Steel, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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1.3

What this shows CHAPARRAL (VIRGINIA) INC. DBA Gerdau averages 1.4 TCR (41% of the Steel mills BLS benchmark).

CHAPARRAL (VIRGINIA) INC. DBA Gerdau TCR series: 2016=1.6 · 2019=0.7 · 2020=1.7 · BLS 3.3

Where CHAPARRAL (VIRGINIA) INC. DBA Gerdau falls in its industry

416 Steel mills establishments

Safer than 75% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

Grade A

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

CHAPARRAL (VIRGINIA) INC. DBA Gerdau (365 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 155 employees and a TCR of 2.7

CHAPARRAL (VIRGINIA) INC. DBA Gerdau has more employees than the Steel mills 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
2020	1.7	0.2	7
2019	0.7	0.3	3
2016	1.6	0.2	7

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331110 · VA · North Dinwiddie

416 Steel mills employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 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	North Star BlueScope Steel, LLC	DELTA, OH	1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Ohio Coatings Company	YORKVILLE, OH	1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	TPCO America Corporation	GREGORY, TX	1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Big River Steel LLC	OSCEOLA, AR	1.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Planters Peanuts	SUFFOLK	365 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Bechtel/Stonewall	LEESBURG	364 FTE
STATE-SIZE	DTFHopewell	CHESTER	366 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Winchester Plant	WINCHESTER	364 FTE
CITY-NEAR	53870105--AMAZON FULFILLMENT-RIC1 5000	North Dinwiddie	29 FTE
NAT-TCR	Pratt Retail Specialties, LLC Dayton, NJ	Dayton, NJ	1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR	Fuchs Lubricants Co., Harvey	Harvey, IL	1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR	Lumina Shared Services	Nashville, TN	1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR	Airway- GR-Clydon	Grand Rapids, MI	1.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Radisson Plaza Hotel and Suites	Kalamazoo, MI	365 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Rice Street Service Center	St. Paul, MN	365 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Sodexo at N Arizona Univ-Hot Spot	Flagstaff, AZ	365 FTE
NAT-SIZE	712 Pear St	Olympia, WA	365 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: 2020, 2019, 2016. 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.