Other Grocery and Related Products Merchant Wholesalers · West Virginia

Charlestown Wv (Nitro)

Nitro, WV · ~100 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.9
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Charlestown Wv (Nitro) runs at 540% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Other Grocery and Related Products Merchant Wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Charlestown Wv (Nitro): 11.9 TCR = 540% of Other Grocery and Related Products Merchant Wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Charlestown Wv (Nitro) safety composite

Charlestown Wv (Nitro) scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 12%), 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

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% 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

−6.0

2018→2023

Charlestown Wv (Nitro) injury rate improved

Charlestown Wv (Nitro)'s TCR fell 6.0 from 15.3 in 2018 to 9.2 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2018 at 15.3 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.63× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=15.3 · 2019=15.1 · 2020=9.5 · 2022=10.4 · 2023=9.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424490 · Nitro, WV ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 11.9 · 540% of ind

  • DART 7.5 DART
  • RANK #17/23
  • PHOTO C350 Clarksburg
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 64 inj
  • SIZE ~100 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: C350 Clarksburg (0.0 TCR gap)

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Charlestown Wv (Nitro) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Charlestown Wv (Nitro) averages 11.9 TCR (540% of the Other Grocery and Related Products Merchant Wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Charlestown Wv (Nitro) TCR series: 2018=15.3 · 2019=15.1 · 2020=9.5 · 2022=10.4 · 2023=9.2 · BLS 2.2

Where Charlestown Wv (Nitro) falls in its industry

1,278 Other Grocery and Related Prod establishments

Safer than 12% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to West Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #17 safest of 23 Other Grocery and Related Prod employers in West Virginia.

Charlestown Wv (Nitro) (100 employees, TCR 11.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 6.0 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Charlestown Wv (Nitro)
Charlestown Wv (Nitro) (100 employees, TCR 11.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 6.0

Charlestown Wv (Nitro) has more employees than the Other Grocery and Related Products Merch median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.0. 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 9.2 7.5 11 0 0
2022 10.4 9.5 11 1 0
2020 9.5 6.6 10 0 0
2019 15.1 14.2 16 0 0
2018 15.3 13.3 16 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424490 · WV · Nitro

1,278 Other Grocery and Related Products Merchant Wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 2,269 rated employers in West Virginia with headcount on file · 31 employers in Nitro, WV · 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 C350 Clarksburg 11.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chefs Warehouse West Coast LLC- Seattle 11.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR KS - Lenexa - 9960 Lakeview - The American Bottling Company 11.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR SAGAMORE MA 12.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pritchard Electric Company 100 FTE
STATE-SIZE AWPI-Petersburg 100 FTE
STATE-SIZE Felman Productions LLC 100 FTE
STATE-SIZE Maxxim Rebuild Co., LLC dba Maxxim Manufacturing 100 FTE
CITY-NEAR Charleston 1,686 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nitro Construction Services 396 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nitro Electric 001 315 FTE
CITY-NEAR Apex Pipeline Services, Inc. 298 FTE
NAT-TCR Store 0310 11.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Bridge Hospice LLC 11.9 TCR
NAT-TCR ACTS Retirement-Life Communities-Magnolia Trace 11.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Specs # 196 11.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Augusta Ga (Martinez) 100 FTE
NAT-SIZE Commercial HVAC Americas : SVC-Great Lakes : SVC-Grand Rapids MI USA 100 FTE
NAT-SIZE J.K. Residential Services, Inc. 100 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sodexo at Porter Regional Hospital Evs 100 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. 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.