Painting lines on highways, streets and bridges · Virginia

City of Lynchburg Public Works Department Engineering/Traffic Signals and Signs Division

Lynchburg, VA · ~35 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.2
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

City of Lynchburg Public Works Department Engineering/Traffic Signals and Signs Division runs at 42% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Painting lines on highways, streets and bridges workplace, earning a grade A.

City of Lynchburg Public Works Department Engineering/Traffic Signals and Signs Division: 1.2 TCR = 42% of Painting lines on highways, streets and bridges BLS 2.8 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

City of Lynchburg Public Works Department Engineering/Traffic Signals and Signs Division safety composite

City of Lynchburg Public Works Department Engineering/Traffic Signals and Signs Division scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 81% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 53%), 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

74/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% 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%).

City of Lynchburg Public Works Department Engineering/Traffic Signals and Signs Division held a steady TCR band

City of Lynchburg Public Works Department Engineering/Traffic Signals and Signs Division's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 7.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.0 · 2017=0.0 · 2018=7.1 · 2019=0.0 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237310 · Lynchburg, VA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.2 · 42% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #19/141
  • PHOTO Granite Construction…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~35 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Granite Construction Company - Illinois Region (0.0 TCR gap)

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City of Lynchburg Public Works Department Engineering/Traffic Signals and Signs Division in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows City of Lynchburg Public Works Department Engineering/Traffic Signals and Signs Division averages 1.2 TCR (42% of the Painting lines on highways, streets and bridges BLS benchmark).

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

City of Lynchburg Public Works Department Engineering/Traffic Signals and Signs Division TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0 · 2018=7.1 · 2019=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.8

Where City of Lynchburg Public Works Department Engineering/Traffic Signals and Signs Division falls in its industry

4,078 Painting lines on highways, st establishments

Safer than 80% 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 #19 safest of 141 Painting lines on highways, st employers in Virginia.

City of Lynchburg Public Works Department Engineering/Traffic Signals and Signs Division (35 employees, TCR 1.2) 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 Lynchburg Public Works Department Engineering/Traffic Signals and Signs Division
City of Lynchburg Public Works Department Engineering/Traffic Signals and Signs Division (35 employees, TCR 1.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0

City of Lynchburg Public Works Department Engineering/Traffic Signals and Signs Division has fewer employees than the Painting lines on highways, streets and median and a lower 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 7.1 3.5 2 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237310 · VA · Lynchburg

4,078 Painting lines on highways, streets and bridges employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 360 employers in Lynchburg, 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 Granite Construction Company - Illinois Region 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tracts unlimited 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 104969 - I-15/Tropicana 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR North Fork Enterprises, LLC. 1.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE R S Coleman Lumber Company Inc 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Clinch River 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fieldale Office 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Shenandoah Division 35 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lynchburg General Hospital 2,596 FTE
CITY-NEAR BWXT NOG Lynchburg 2,200 FTE
CITY-NEAR BWXT Nuclear Operations Group, Inc. - Lynchburg 2,180 FTE
CITY-NEAR Centra Urgent Care Forest 1,283 FTE
NAT-TCR Justus Office Building 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR RLN Industries, Inc 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR GEO Specialty Chemicals - Deer Park 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Granite Construction Company - Illinois Region 1.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Brite Star Services Ltd 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE DFI 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dieterich 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE New Colony Sow Farm 6276 -Est 35 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, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.