Lumber, softwood dimension, made from logs or bolts · Virginia

Conner Chester Plant

Chester, VA · ~38 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Conner Chester Plant runs at 275% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Lumber, softwood dimension, made from logs or bolts workplace, earning a grade F.

Conner Chester Plant: 9.1 TCR = 275% of Lumber, softwood dimension, made from logs or bolts BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Conner Chester Plant safety composite

Conner Chester Plant scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 25%), 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).

D

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% 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

Conner Chester Plant: 7.9 → 9.9 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 9.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2018

Conner Chester Plant's TCR rose 2.0 from 7.9 in 2016 to 9.9 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321113 · Chester, VA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.1 · 275% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #29/35
  • PHOTO Pulliam Lumber Compa…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~38 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Pulliam Lumber Company Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Conner Chester Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Conner Chester Plant averages 9.1 TCR (275% of the Lumber, softwood dimension, made from logs or bolts BLS benchmark).

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

Conner Chester Plant TCR series: 2016=7.9 · 2017=9.4 · 2018=9.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Conner Chester Plant falls in its industry

905 Lumber, softwood dimension, ma establishments

Safer than 25% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #29 safest of 35 Lumber, softwood dimension, ma employers in Virginia.

Conner Chester Plant (38 employees, TCR 9.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 5.2 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 050100150200250 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Conner Chester Plant
Conner Chester Plant (38 employees, TCR 9.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Conner Chester Plant has fewer employees than the Lumber, softwood dimension, made from lo median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.2. 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
2018 9.9 0.0 3 0 0
2017 9.4 0.0 3 0 0
2016 7.9 0.0 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321113 · VA · Chester

905 Lumber, softwood dimension, made from logs or bolts employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 119 employers in Chester, 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 Pulliam Lumber Company Inc 9.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Altenburg Hardwood Lumber Company 9.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lincoln Lumber Georgia, LLC 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Greene Lumber Company 9.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Glenwood Foods, LLC 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE Headquarters 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE 316-NiSource-Lynchburg VA-Serv Ctr 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE SHAH DEVELOPMENT LLC 38 FTE
CITY-NEAR North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : RIC2 3,011 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - RIC2 2,710 FTE
CITY-NEAR C.W. Wright Construction Company, LLC 697 FTE
CITY-NEAR CW Wright Construction 573 FTE
NAT-TCR Penske : 4406-00 Whirlpool FDC/Clyde,OH 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Benedict 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Big Lots Store #4551 Lake Elsinore, 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Mack StressCon 9.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE AMEREN SERVICES - Telecom Field Ops - AIC 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Atlanta East Sheet Plant 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE USC Nycon 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE AW ALF Ops CO, LLC D/B/A LakeWest Assisted Living 38 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: 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.