Repair, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway · Virginia

City of Galax Public Works

Galax, VA · ~27 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.1
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

City of Galax Public Works runs at 290% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Repair, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway workplace, earning a grade F.

City of Galax Public Works: 8.1 TCR = 290% of Repair, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway BLS 2.8 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

City of Galax Public Works safety composite

City of Galax Public Works scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 3%), 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

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

DART rate
F 12.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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 Galax Public Works: 4.0 → 12.6 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 19.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.55× in 2021

City of Galax Public Works's TCR rose 8.6 from 4.0 in 2016 to 12.6 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2018 at 19.2 TCR. In 2021, DART was 1.55× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237310 · Galax, VA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.1 · 290% of ind

  • DART 12.6 DART
  • RANK #120/141
  • PHOTO D8 Jerseyville Yard
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~27 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: D8 Jerseyville Yard (0.0 TCR gap)

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City of Galax Public Works in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows City of Galax Public Works averages 8.1 TCR (290% of the Repair, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway BLS benchmark).

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

City of Galax Public Works TCR series: 2016=4 · 2017=4 · 2018=19.2 · 2019=5 · 2020=4 · 2021=12.6 · BLS 2.8

Where City of Galax Public Works falls in its industry

4,078 Repair, highway, road, street, establishments

Safer than 14% 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 #120 safest of 141 Repair, highway, road, street, employers in Virginia.

City of Galax Public Works (27 employees, TCR 8.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 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 01,0002,0003,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate City of Galax Public Works
City of Galax Public Works (27 employees, TCR 8.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0

City of Galax Public Works has fewer employees than the Repair, highway, road, street, bridge or 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
2021 12.6 12.6 0 3 0
2020 4.0 4.0 1 0 0
2019 5.0 0.0 1 0 0
2018 19.2 3.8 1 4 0
2017 4.0 0.0 1 0 0
2016 4.0 4.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237310 · VA · Galax

4,078 Repair, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 31 employers in Galax, 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 D8 Jerseyville Yard 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Oregon Mainline Paving, LLC 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bow, NH Office 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR SLATE HILL CONSTRUCTORS INC 8.2 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 DLP TWIN COUNTY REGIONAL HEALTHCARE LLC 462 FTE
CITY-NEAR Twin Co Regional Hospital 390 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1023 375 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1023 359 FTE
NAT-TCR SCI Galena, LLC 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Clark Rehabilitation & Skilled Nursing 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Jewell Care Center of Denver 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Super Stop & Shop 0594 8.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company - Houston 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE AH4R - Chicago 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Montana Dakota Utilities - Williston, ND(2) 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Montana Dakota Utilities - Sheridan, WY 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.