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

City of Harrisonburg Public Works

Harrisonburg, VA · ~82 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.0
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

City of Harrisonburg Public Works runs at 321% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Resurfacing, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway workplace, earning a grade F.

City of Harrisonburg Public Works: 9.0 TCR = 321% of Resurfacing, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

City of Harrisonburg Public Works safety composite

City of Harrisonburg Public Works scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 10%), 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

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% 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%).

TCR Δ

−4.5

2016→2017

City of Harrisonburg Public Works injury rate improved

City of Harrisonburg Public Works's TCR fell 4.5 from 11.2 in 2016 to 6.7 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 11.2 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0.75× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=11.2 · 2017=6.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 9.0 · 321% of ind

  • DART 6.7 DART
  • RANK #127/141
  • PHOTO AREA EQUIPMENT, INC.
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~82 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: AREA EQUIPMENT, INC. (0.0 TCR gap)

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City of Harrisonburg Public Works in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows City of Harrisonburg Public Works averages 9.0 TCR (321% of the Resurfacing, 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 Harrisonburg Public Works TCR series: 2016=11.2 · 2017=6.7 · BLS 2.8

Where City of Harrisonburg Public Works falls in its industry

4,078 Resurfacing, highway, road, st establishments

Safer than 11% 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 #127 safest of 141 Resurfacing, highway, road, st employers in Virginia.

City of Harrisonburg Public Works (82 employees, TCR 9.0) 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 Harrisonburg Public Works
City of Harrisonburg Public Works (82 employees, TCR 9.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0

City of Harrisonburg Public Works has more employees than the Resurfacing, highway, road, street, brid 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
2017 6.7 6.7 5 1 0
2016 11.2 10.1 9 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237310 · VA · Harrisonburg

4,078 Resurfacing, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 171 employers in Harrisonburg, 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 AREA EQUIPMENT, INC. 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR KNIFE RIVER - LINTN RM / METRO OFFICE 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Valley Paving Inc. 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Stephens City AHQ 9.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Reston Office (M&T) 82 FTE
STATE-SIZE FGG Herndon 82 FTE
STATE-SIZE Precon Marine Inc 82 FTE
STATE-SIZE Newington Services, Inc. 82 FTE
CITY-NEAR James Madison University 6,991 FTE
CITY-NEAR Harrisonburg Processing 4,130 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sentara Rockingham Memorial Hospital 2,232 FTE
CITY-NEAR Harrisonburg North Facility 953 FTE
NAT-TCR TPA - Airport United Airlines Offices 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Big Lots Store #1498 SUMMERVILLE, SC 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Pleasant Manor Health and Rehabilitation Center 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Plant 800 9.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE N and R of Warrenton Inc 82 FTE
NAT-SIZE Alan Kunsman Roofing & Siding, Inc. 82 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sinatra and Company Real Estate 82 FTE
NAT-SIZE Northgate Bilo Foods and Pharmacy 82 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: 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.