City and town managers' offices · Virginia

City of Bristol

Bristol, VA · ~328 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

City of Bristol runs at 158% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical City and town managers' offices workplace, earning a grade D.

City of Bristol: 5.0 TCR = 158% of City and town managers' offices BLS 3.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

City of Bristol safety composite

City of Bristol scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 44%), 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

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

−0.9

2021→2024

City of Bristol injury rate improved

City of Bristol's TCR fell 0.9 from 5.3 in 2021 to 4.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 5.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.38× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=5.3 · 2022=5.5 · 2023=5.0 · 2024=4.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 921110 · Bristol, VA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.0 · 158% of ind

  • DART 1.9 DART
  • RANK #10/18
  • PHOTO Maplewood Public Wor…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 55 inj
  • SIZE ~328 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Maplewood Public Works/Comm Devel/Parks & Rec Building (0.0 TCR gap)

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City of Bristol in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows City of Bristol averages 5.0 TCR (158% of the City and town managers' offices BLS benchmark).

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

City of Bristol TCR series: 2021=5.3 · 2022=5.5 · 2023=5 · 2024=4.4 · BLS 3.2

Where City of Bristol falls in its industry

1,010 City and town managers' office establishments

Safer than 48% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

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 18 City and town managers' office employers in Virginia.

City of Bristol (328 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.8 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate City of Bristol
City of Bristol (328 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.8

City of Bristol has more employees than the City and town managers' offices median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.8. 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 4.4 1.9 12 2 0
2023 5.0 2.0 12 5 0
2022 5.5 3.3 14 4 0
2021 5.3 2.5 17 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

921110 · VA · Bristol

1,010 City and town managers' offices employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 54 employers in Bristol, 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 Maplewood Public Works/Comm Devel/Parks & Rec Building 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR McFarland Mental Health Center 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR ADMIN SERVICES / CENTURY CENTER 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Town Administration 5.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Spotsylvania Solar SPower 18145011 328 FTE
STATE-SIZE VA006 Big Island Paper 328 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 1524 328 FTE
STATE-SIZE EGS Financial Care, Inc. - Virginia Beach 328 FTE
CITY-NEAR CITY OF BRISTOL VIRGINIA 340 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2089 338 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2089 337 FTE
CITY-NEAR VABRI - BRISTOL 332 FTE
NAT-TCR Vision Ace Hardware, Clewiston 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Public Works 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Education K - 12 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Lodge Manufacturing 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE 2370 - Orlando SW 328 FTE
NAT-SIZE Navigator International 328 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - DDT1 328 FTE
NAT-SIZE Friendship Village 328 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. 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.