Water treatment plants · Virginia

City of Chesapeake - Lake Gaston Water Treatment Plant

Chesapeake, VA · ~27 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
1.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

City of Chesapeake - Lake Gaston Water Treatment Plant runs at 249% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Water treatment plants workplace, earning a grade F.

City of Chesapeake - Lake Gaston Water Treatment Plant: 3.0 TCR = 249% of Water treatment plants BLS 1.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

City of Chesapeake - Lake Gaston Water Treatment Plant safety composite

City of Chesapeake - Lake Gaston Water Treatment Plant scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 83% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

C

67/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 63% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% 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%).

Rising injury rate

City of Chesapeake - Lake Gaston Water Treatment Plant: 0.0 → 4.6 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 4.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

City of Chesapeake - Lake Gaston Water Treatment Plant's TCR rose 4.6 from 0.0 in 2022 to 4.6 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 221310 · Chesapeake, VA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 3.0 · 249% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #13/27
  • PHOTO Utilities Inc., of L…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~27 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Utilities Inc., of Louisiana (0.0 TCR gap)

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City of Chesapeake - Lake Gaston Water Treatment Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows City of Chesapeake - Lake Gaston Water Treatment Plant averages 3.0 TCR (249% of the Water treatment plants BLS benchmark).

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

City of Chesapeake - Lake Gaston Water Treatment Plant TCR series: 2022=0 · 2023=4.3 · 2024=4.6 · BLS 1.2

Where City of Chesapeake - Lake Gaston Water Treatment Plant falls in its industry

727 Water treatment plants establishments

Safer than 63% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 27 Water treatment plants employers in Virginia.

City of Chesapeake - Lake Gaston Water Treatment Plant (27 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.2 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 City of Chesapeake - Lake Gaston Water Treatment Plant
City of Chesapeake - Lake Gaston Water Treatment Plant (27 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.2

City of Chesapeake - Lake Gaston Water Treatment Plant has fewer employees than the Water treatment plants median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.2. 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 4.6 0.0 1 0 0
2023 4.3 4.3 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

221310 · VA · Chesapeake

727 Water treatment plants employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 434 employers in Chesapeake, 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 Utilities Inc., of Louisiana 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Portland Water Bureau Resource Protection 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Aqua NJ 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Infrastrucutre Alternatives 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Temperanceville Hatchery 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Degesch America Weyers Cave 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Potomac Energy Center, LLC 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rocky Mount Ofc and Svc Ctr 27 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - ORF2 2,432 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chesapeake Regional Medical Center 2,059 FTE
CITY-NEAR QVC Chesapeake, Inc. 1,056 FTE
CITY-NEAR Crossways 931 FTE
NAT-TCR Vita Plus - Distribution Center 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Soli Organic Inc. - Arizona 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR West Dairy Inc 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE PA Operations 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE American Terrazzo Co. 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Progreso LMMM Houston #44, LLC 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Progreso LMMM San Antonio #9, LLC 27 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. 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.