Recycling · Virginia

Chester

Chester, VA · ~117 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Chester runs at 155% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Recycling workplace, earning a grade D.

Chester: 4.0 TCR = 155% of Recycling BLS 2.6 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Chester safety composite

Chester scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 57% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 45%), 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).

D

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% 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

−1.6

2017→2024

Chester injury rate improved

Chester's TCR fell 1.6 from 7.4 in 2017 to 5.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 7.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.29× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=7.4 · 2022=1.8 · 2023=1.1 · 2024=5.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562920 · Chester, VA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.0 · 155% of ind

  • DART 1.2 DART
  • RANK #5/10
  • PHOTO C & I Electronics Co…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 23 inj
  • SIZE ~117 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: C & I Electronics Co., Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Chester in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Chester averages 4.0 TCR (155% of the Recycling BLS benchmark).

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

Chester TCR series: 2017=7.4 · 2022=1.8 · 2023=1.1 · 2024=5.8 · BLS 2.6

Where Chester falls in its industry

422 Recycling establishments

Safer than 45% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 10 Recycling employers in Virginia.

Chester (117 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 3.8 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 0100200300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Chester
Chester (117 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 3.8

Chester has more employees than the Recycling median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.8. 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 5.8 1.2 5 0 0
2023 1.1 1.1 1 0 0
2022 1.8 1.2 3 0 0
2017 7.4 5.3 14 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562920 · VA · Chester

422 Recycling employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 119 employers in Chester, 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 C & I Electronics Co., Inc. 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR ReEnergy Lewiston 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Moncalm MRF 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Parallel Products of Kentucky 4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Van Metre Fairfax 117 FTE
STATE-SIZE Howard Shockey and Sons 117 FTE
STATE-SIZE Streets and General Maintenance 117 FTE
STATE-SIZE ColonialWebb Contractors - Norfolk Office 117 FTE
CITY-NEAR North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : RIC2 3,011 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - RIC2 2,710 FTE
CITY-NEAR C.W. Wright Construction Company, LLC 697 FTE
CITY-NEAR CW Wright Construction 573 FTE
NAT-TCR Giant Food Stores 6005 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR HH Naples 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Spanish Trails Rehabilitation Suites 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 6154 Jamestown 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Central Bi-Products - Long Prairie 117 FTE
NAT-SIZE Albany Regional 117 FTE
NAT-SIZE Eden Retirement Center 117 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lake Region Electric Co-op Inc 117 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, 2017. 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.