Electrical signs manufacturing · Virginia

Color-Ad, Inc.

Manassas, VA · ~55 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Color-Ad, Inc. runs at 187% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Electrical signs manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Color-Ad, Inc.: 6.2 TCR = 187% of Electrical signs manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Color-Ad, Inc. safety composite

Color-Ad, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 21%), 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

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

Color-Ad, Inc.: 3.8 → 5.7 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 11.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.62× in 2022

Color-Ad, Inc.'s TCR rose 2.0 from 3.8 in 2016 to 5.7 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2017 at 11.2 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.62× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 339950 · Manassas, VA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.2 · 187% of ind

  • DART 3.8 DART
  • RANK #4/7
  • PHOTO Dothan Production Ce…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 22 inj
  • SIZE ~55 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Dothan Production Center (0.0 TCR gap)

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Color-Ad, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Color-Ad, Inc. averages 6.2 TCR (187% of the Electrical signs manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Color-Ad, Inc. TCR series: 2016=3.8 · 2017=11.2 · 2018=5.2 · 2019=6.5 · 2020=3.4 · 2021=7.5 · 2022=5.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Color-Ad, Inc. falls in its industry

405 Electrical signs manufacturing establishments

Safer than 22% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 7 Electrical signs manufacturing employers in Virginia.

Color-Ad, Inc. (55 employees, TCR 6.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Color-Ad, Inc.
Color-Ad, Inc. (55 employees, TCR 6.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Color-Ad, Inc. has more employees than the Electrical signs manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 5.7 3.8 3 0 0
2021 7.5 3.8 3 1 0
2020 3.4 1.7 2 0 0
2019 6.5 4.8 4 0 0
2018 5.2 3.4 2 1 0
2017 11.2 11.2 6 0 0
2016 3.8 1.9 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

339950 · VA · Manassas

405 Electrical signs manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 278 employers in Manassas, 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 Dothan Production Center 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Newman Traffic Signs 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Czarnowski-New York 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Signworks, Inc. 6.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hendrix 55 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gregory Pallet & Lumber Roanoke 55 FTE
STATE-SIZE Trump Vineyard Estates LLC 55 FTE
STATE-SIZE SERVPRO of Chesapeake 55 FTE
CITY-NEAR Micron INC. Manassas, VA 1,617 FTE
CITY-NEAR Micron Technology Virginia 1,432 FTE
CITY-NEAR Manassas City Public Schools 1,342 FTE
CITY-NEAR Checks and Balances, Inc. 1,316 FTE
NAT-TCR Safco Products - Kennesaw, GA 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Stop & Shop 100007 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Food City Store #618 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 0247 6.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Teva Pharmaceuticals USA - Fairfield 55 FTE
NAT-SIZE Johnson Health Tech North America Manufacturing 55 FTE
NAT-SIZE AN3 Boston, LLC 55 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sierra Commercial Plumbing, Inc. 55 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, 2016. 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.