Chipper mills (except portable) · Virginia

Elkwood

Elkwood, VA · ~33 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
13.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Elkwood runs at 412% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Chipper mills (except portable) workplace, earning a grade F.

Elkwood: 13.6 TCR = 412% of Chipper mills (except portable) BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Elkwood safety composite

Elkwood scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 11%), 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

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 13.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% 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%).

TCR Δ

−21.8

2019→2024

Elkwood injury rate improved

Elkwood's TCR fell 21.8 from 27.1 in 2019 to 5.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 27.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=27.1 · 2020=14.4 · 2021=8.4 · 2022=17.3 · 2023=9.1 · 2024=5.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 13.6 · 412% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #33/35
  • PHOTO PRAIRIE WOOD PRODUCTS
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~33 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: PRAIRIE WOOD PRODUCTS (0.0 TCR gap)

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Elkwood in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Elkwood averages 13.6 TCR (412% of the Chipper mills (except portable) BLS benchmark).

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

Elkwood TCR series: 2019=27.1 · 2020=14.4 · 2021=8.4 · 2022=17.3 · 2023=9.1 · 2024=5.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Elkwood falls in its industry

905 Chipper mills (except portable establishments

Safer than 11% 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 #33 safest of 35 Chipper mills (except portable employers in Virginia.

Elkwood (33 employees, TCR 13.6) 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 Elkwood
Elkwood (33 employees, TCR 13.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Elkwood has fewer employees than the Chipper mills (except portable) 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
2024 5.3 0.0 2 0 0
2023 9.1 3.0 3 0 0
2022 17.3 13.0 4 0 0
2021 8.4 4.2 2 0 0
2020 14.4 0.0 4 0 0
2019 27.1 22.6 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321113 · VA · Elkwood

905 Chipper mills (except portable) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 13 employers in Elkwood, 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 PRAIRIE WOOD PRODUCTS 13.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR R Y TIMBER, INC / LIVINGSTON DIVISION 13.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lashway Lumber Inc Williamsburg and Goshen 13.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cardwell Lumber Novelty 13.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Commonwealth Gin 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE ALTAVISTA POWER STATION 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE NAES : Mecklenburg 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Orsted - Charlottesville 33 FTE
CITY-NEAR Moore, CCA Division 184 FTE
CITY-NEAR Euro-Composites Corporation 156 FTE
CITY-NEAR Culpeper VA Yard 107 FTE
CITY-NEAR Culpeper VA Truss 78 FTE
NAT-TCR Weston 13.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Appleton Location 13.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 1535 - Galveston 13.6 TCR
NAT-TCR D1 Naperville Yard 13.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Tireco Inc 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brown County Sheriff's Office - Police Protection 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rich Mountain Electric Cooperative, Inc. 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mosaic Waukon 33 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.