Other Building Material Dealers · Virginia

Chester VA Yard

Chester, VA · ~56 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Chester VA Yard runs at 89% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Other Building Material Dealers workplace, earning a grade C.

Chester VA Yard: 3.0 TCR = 89% of Other Building Material Dealers BLS 3.4 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Chester VA Yard safety composite

Chester VA Yard scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 34%), 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

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% of industry peers

DART rate
F 1.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% 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%).

Chester VA Yard held a steady TCR band

Chester VA Yard's TCR held near 0.3 from 3.5 in 2017 to 3.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 7.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.53× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=3.5 · 2018=3.5 · 2019=3.5 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=7.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=3.6 · 2024=3.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444180 · Chester, VA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.0 · 89% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK #10/16
  • PHOTO Seaside OR Yard
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~56 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Seaside OR Yard (0.0 TCR gap)

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Chester VA Yard in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Chester VA Yard averages 3.0 TCR (89% of the Other Building Material Dealers BLS benchmark).

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

Chester VA Yard TCR series: 2017=3.5 · 2018=3.5 · 2019=3.5 · 2020=0 · 2021=7 · 2022=0 · 2023=3.6 · 2024=3.2 · BLS 3.4

Where Chester VA Yard falls in its industry

280 Other Building Material Dealer establishments

Safer than 49% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 16 Other Building Material Dealer employers in Virginia.

Chester VA Yard (56 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 34 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 020406080100 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Chester VA Yard
Chester VA Yard (56 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 34 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Chester VA Yard has more employees than the Other Building Material Dealers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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
2024 3.2 1.6 2 0 0
2023 3.6 3.6 2 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 7.0 7.0 4 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 3.5 0.0 2 0 0
2018 3.5 3.5 2 0 0
2017 3.5 3.5 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444180 · VA · Chester

280 Other Building Material Dealers 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 Seaside OR Yard 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kennewick WA Yard 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Charlottesville VA Yard 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cumming GA Yard 3.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE PACKING HOUSE 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE PORTSMOUTH DIST 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE 206-NiSource-Fredericksburg VA-Commerce 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE Atlantic Contruction Utilities INC. 56 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 Seaside OR Yard 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Moving Right Along Service Inc 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR S04000 - WM of RI - Newport 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR TJ Health Pavilion 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Byron Middle School 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE Busby's Inc. 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE Illuminated Creations, Inc. 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE USA MD Hagerstown Plant 56 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 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.