Food Service Contractors · Virginia

Ferrum College

Ferrum, VA · ~47 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.7
Avg TCR
3.0
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
Subscribe to safety-record updates (RSS)

The verdict

Ferrum College runs at 124% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Food Service Contractors workplace, earning a grade D.

Ferrum College: 3.7 TCR = 124% of Food Service Contractors BLS 3.0 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ferrum College safety composite

Ferrum College scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 12%), 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

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Ferrum College: 0.0 → 7.5 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 7.5 TCR · DART/TCR 2.03× in 2024

Ferrum College's TCR rose 7.5 from 0.0 in 2021 to 7.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2.03× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 722310 · Ferrum, VA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 3.7 · 124% of ind

  • DART 7.5 DART
  • RANK #124/212
  • PHOTO CHRIST'S HOME RETIRE…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~47 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: CHRIST'S HOME RETIREMENT COMMUNITY (0.0 TCR gap)

Read with this employer → · Industry book → · Virginia employers → · Look up another →

Ferrum College in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ferrum College averages 3.7 TCR (124% of the Food Service Contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Ferrum College TCR series: 2021=0 · 2022=3.7 · 2023=3.6 · 2024=7.5 · BLS 3.0

Where Ferrum College falls in its industry

6,952 Food Service Contractors establishments

Safer than 47% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #124 safest of 212 Food Service Contractors employers in Virginia.

Ferrum College (47 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Ferrum College
Ferrum College (47 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Ferrum College has more employees than the Food Service Contractors median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 7.5 7.5 1 0 0
2023 3.6 0.0 1 0 0
2022 3.7 0.0 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

722310 · VA · Ferrum

6,952 Food Service Contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 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 CHRIST'S HOME RETIREMENT COMMUNITY 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR SODEXO AT N ARIZONA UNIV DUB 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR SODEXO AT BENNETT COLLEGE Food 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR SODEXO AT HCA-GULF COAST HOSP - PANAMA C 3.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE BATH CO PW ST 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE RCL 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE Heritage Contracting LLC 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE TRINITY Group Construction 47 FTE
NAT-TCR NA-US-CA-Pomona-3880 Valley Blvd 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Peavler Corp 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR MicroPrecision LLC 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Amazon.com Services LLC - HPB2 3.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Minneapolis Kitchen 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE Norton Museum of Art 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE Forsyth Project 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bud Manufacturing Inc. 47 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. 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.