Forensic (except medical) laboratories or services · Virginia

Eastern Lab

Norfolk, VA · ~59 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
2.1
Avg TCR
0.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Eastern Lab runs at 412% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Forensic (except medical) laboratories or services workplace, earning a grade F.

Eastern Lab: 2.1 TCR = 412% of Forensic (except medical) laboratories or services BLS 0.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Eastern Lab safety composite

Eastern Lab scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 71% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 28%), 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

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 2.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% 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%).

Eastern Lab held a steady TCR band

Eastern Lab's TCR held near 0.2 from 1.9 in 2017 to 2.2 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=1.9 · 2018=2.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 541380 · Norfolk, VA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 2.1 · 412% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #3/4
  • PHOTO Energy Laboratories …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~59 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Energy Laboratories Inc-Casper (0.0 TCR gap)

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Eastern Lab in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Eastern Lab averages 2.1 TCR (412% of the Forensic (except medical) laboratories or services BLS benchmark).

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

Eastern Lab TCR series: 2017=1.9 · 2018=2.2 · BLS 0.5

Where Eastern Lab falls in its industry

232 Forensic (except medical) labo establishments

Safer than 28% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 4 Forensic (except medical) labo employers in Virginia.

Eastern Lab (59 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 1.0 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Eastern Lab
Eastern Lab (59 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 1.0

Eastern Lab has fewer employees than the Forensic (except medical) laboratories o median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.0. 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
2018 2.2 0.0 0 1 0
2017 1.9 1.9 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

541380 · VA · Norfolk

232 Forensic (except medical) laboratories or services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 473 employers in Norfolk, 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 Energy Laboratories Inc-Casper 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Prestone Products Corporation 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Power Solutions Group LLC 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kema-Powertest, LLC 2.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bluefield VA Trs Svc Bldg 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE AUGUSTA FACILTY 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pulte Homes 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE K. Hovnanian Mid-Atlantic Division, LLC 59 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sentara Norfolk General Hospital 4,863 FTE
CITY-NEAR Childrens Hospital of The Kings Dau 3,707 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Atlantic Group dba DZ Atlantic 3,248 FTE
CITY-NEAR Norfolk State University 2,981 FTE
NAT-TCR Triplex 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Black Warrior Roofing 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR MB-Adel 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR MB-Memphis 2.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Viafield 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE Oscar Winski Company 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE KCP&L - Dodson Service Center 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE Allegheny Petroleum/Wilmerding 59 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. 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.