Petroleum and petroleum products merchant wholesalers (except bulk stations, terminals) · Virginia

Cockerham Dispatch Office

Galax, VA · ~21 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.7
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cockerham Dispatch Office runs at 31% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Petroleum and petroleum products merchant wholesalers (except bulk stations, terminals) workplace, earning a grade A.

Cockerham Dispatch Office: 0.7 TCR = 31% of Petroleum and petroleum products merchant wholesalers (except bulk stations, terminals) BLS 2.2 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cockerham Dispatch Office safety composite

Cockerham Dispatch Office scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 89% 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).

B

75/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 0.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 89% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% 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%).

TCR Δ

−4.1

2017→2022

Cockerham Dispatch Office injury rate improved

Cockerham Dispatch Office's TCR fell 4.1 from 4.1 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2017 at 4.1 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=4.1 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424720 · Galax, VA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.7 · 31% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/9
  • PHOTO Industrial Welding S…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~21 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Industrial Welding Supply Co. of Harvey Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cockerham Dispatch Office in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cockerham Dispatch Office averages 0.7 TCR (31% of the Petroleum and petroleum products merchant wholesalers (except bulk stations, terminals) BLS benchmark).

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

Cockerham Dispatch Office TCR series: 2017=4.1 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · BLS 2.2

Where Cockerham Dispatch Office falls in its industry

218 Petroleum and petroleum produc establishments

Safer than 89% 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 #1 safest of 9 Petroleum and petroleum produc employers in Virginia.

Cockerham Dispatch Office (21 employees, TCR 0.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 41 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 0200400600800 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Cockerham Dispatch Office
Cockerham Dispatch Office (21 employees, TCR 0.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 41 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Cockerham Dispatch Office has fewer employees than the Petroleum and petroleum products merchan 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
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 4.1 4.1 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424720 · VA · Galax

218 Petroleum and petroleum products merchant wholesalers (except bulk stations, terminals) 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 Industrial Welding Supply Co. of Harvey Inc. 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Southern Gas and Supply Inc. 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mansfield Oil Company 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Delek, Tyler 0.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Broadway Hatchery 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Norton 580 Hawthorne Drive, Norton, VA 24273 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE EMISSIONS MONITORING SUPPORT CENTER 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mecklenburg Electric Gretna 21 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 Osha 300a 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Phillips Industrial Services Corporation 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Copper River Princess Wilderness Lodge 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Adtech, Inc 0.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Pat's Heating & A/C, Inc. 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lmmm Houston #65, Ltd 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Woodmore Dialysis Center 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE McCormick Sand Inc 21 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.