Packaging machinery manufacturing · Virginia

Ess Technologies

Blacksburg, VA · ~58 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ess Technologies runs at 140% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Packaging machinery manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Ess Technologies: 4.6 TCR = 140% of Packaging machinery manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ess Technologies safety composite

Ess Technologies scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 18%), 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 4.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% 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

−4.9

2023→2024

Ess Technologies injury rate improved

Ess Technologies's TCR fell 4.9 from 7.1 in 2023 to 2.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 7.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.47× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=7.1 · 2024=2.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333993 · Blacksburg, VA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.6 · 140% of ind

  • DART 2.2 DART
  • RANK #4/5
  • PHOTO Klippenstein Corpora…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~58 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Klippenstein Corporation (0.1 TCR gap)

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Ess Technologies in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ess Technologies averages 4.6 TCR (140% of the Packaging machinery manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Ess Technologies TCR series: 2023=7.1 · 2024=2.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Ess Technologies falls in its industry

269 Packaging machinery manufactur establishments

Safer than 18% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

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 5 Packaging machinery manufactur employers in Virginia.

Ess Technologies (58 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 66 employees and a TCR of 2.4 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 0200400600800 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Ess Technologies
Ess Technologies (58 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 66 employees and a TCR of 2.4

Ess Technologies has fewer employees than the Packaging machinery manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.4. 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 2.2 2.2 1 0 0
2023 7.1 1.8 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333993 · VA · Blacksburg

269 Packaging machinery manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 45 employers in Blacksburg, 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 Klippenstein Corporation 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Emhart Glass (Elmira, NY) 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Korber Pharma Inc - Horace 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Valley Tissue Packaging, Inc 4.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Lynchburg Service Center 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE 341-NiSource-Vint Hill VA 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE Golkin Corporation dba Paul Davis Restoration 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE Convert Solar 58 FTE
CITY-NEAR New River Valley Community Services 780 FTE
CITY-NEAR Moog, Inc - Blacksburg Central 691 FTE
CITY-NEAR LewisGale Hospital Mongomery 525 FTE
CITY-NEAR Federal Mogul Blacksburg 518 FTE
NAT-TCR Austin North 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR NLT Hollywood 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Baptist Health System Jacksonville Wolfson Children's Hospital 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR MAPEI - Wildwood 4.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE New Providence Women's Shelter 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Scotts Company - Chester 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bosch Rexroth Corporation - Logistics Center 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cherryvale 58 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. 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.