Air filters, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing · Virginia

Corning Incorporated - Blacksburg Plant

Christiansburg, VA · ~447 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.8
Avg TCR
5.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Corning Incorporated - Blacksburg Plant runs at 33% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Air filters, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Corning Incorporated - Blacksburg Plant: 1.8 TCR = 33% of Air filters, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing BLS 5.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Corning Incorporated - Blacksburg Plant safety composite

Corning Incorporated - Blacksburg Plant scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 75% 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).

C

61/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% 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

−0.5

2020→2022

Corning Incorporated - Blacksburg Plant injury rate improved

Corning Incorporated - Blacksburg Plant's TCR fell 0.5 from 2.0 in 2020 to 1.5 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2020 at 2.0 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.74× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=2.0 · 2022=1.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336390 · Christiansburg, VA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.8 · 33% of ind

  • DART 1.3 DART
  • RANK #4/7
  • PHOTO Creative Liquid Coat…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~447 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Creative Liquid Coatings, Inc. Kendallville (0.0 TCR gap)

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Corning Incorporated - Blacksburg Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Corning Incorporated - Blacksburg Plant averages 1.8 TCR (33% of the Air filters, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Corning Incorporated - Blacksburg Plant TCR series: 2020=2 · 2022=1.5 · BLS 5.4

Where Corning Incorporated - Blacksburg Plant falls in its industry

772 Air filters, automotive, truck establishments

Safer than 75% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

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 Air filters, automotive, truck employers in Virginia.

Corning Incorporated - Blacksburg Plant (447 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 154 employees and a TCR of 3.2 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Corning Incorporated - Blacksburg Plant
Corning Incorporated - Blacksburg Plant (447 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 154 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Corning Incorporated - Blacksburg Plant has more employees than the Air filters, automotive, truck, and bus, median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.2. 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
2022 1.5 1.3 7 0 0
2020 2.0 1.2 10 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336390 · VA · Christiansburg

772 Air filters, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 61 employers in Christiansburg, 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 Creative Liquid Coatings, Inc. Kendallville 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Technology Center 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hitachi Astemo 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Purem by Eberspaecher North America - Wixom 1.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE SODEXO AT GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY 448 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wegmans Potomac 055 445 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 1833 445 FTE
STATE-SIZE 3265 449 FTE
CITY-NEAR Carilion Clinic New River Valley Hospital Co. 03 1,131 FTE
CITY-NEAR Blacksburg 488 FTE
CITY-NEAR SHELOR MOTOR MILE INC 425 FTE
CITY-NEAR Community Housing Partners, Corp 389 FTE
NAT-TCR Radial Richwood #1 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Fulton Medical Clinic 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Shumaker Trucking and Excavating Contractors, Inc. 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Georgia Infirmary 1.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Corrpro Companies, Inc. 447 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2904-ASM-WA 447 FTE
NAT-SIZE Perrigo : Michigan-Holland (PMH) 447 FTE
NAT-SIZE 115605-Manasota Fl P&Dc 447 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, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.