Petroleum and petroleum products merchant wholesalers (except bulk stations, terminals) · Virginia

Foster Fuels Inc.

Brookneal, VA · ~166 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.2
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Foster Fuels Inc. runs at 371% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Petroleum and petroleum products merchant wholesalers (except bulk stations, terminals) workplace, earning a grade F.

Foster Fuels Inc.: 8.2 TCR = 371% of Petroleum and petroleum products merchant wholesalers (except bulk stations, terminals) BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Foster Fuels Inc. safety composite

Foster Fuels Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 6%), 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

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% 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

−2.6

2017→2021

Foster Fuels Inc. injury rate improved

Foster Fuels Inc.'s TCR fell 2.6 from 10.6 in 2017 to 8.0 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2017 at 10.6 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.63× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=10.6 · 2019=6.0 · 2021=8.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424720 · Brookneal, VA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 8.2 · 371% of ind

  • DART 5.1 DART
  • RANK #9/9
  • PHOTO Central Texas
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 37 inj
  • SIZE ~166 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Central Texas (0.1 TCR gap)

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Foster Fuels Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Foster Fuels Inc. averages 8.2 TCR (371% of the Petroleum and petroleum products merchant wholesalers (except bulk stations, terminals) BLS benchmark).

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

Foster Fuels Inc. TCR series: 2017=10.6 · 2019=6 · 2021=8 · BLS 2.2

Where Foster Fuels Inc. falls in its industry

218 Petroleum and petroleum produc establishments

Safer than 6% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 9 Petroleum and petroleum produc employers in Virginia.

Foster Fuels Inc. (166 employees, TCR 8.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 41 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 0200400600800 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Foster Fuels Inc.
Foster Fuels Inc. (166 employees, TCR 8.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 41 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Foster Fuels Inc. has more employees than the Petroleum and petroleum products merchan median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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
2021 8.0 5.1 14 0 0
2019 6.0 3.3 11 0 0
2017 10.6 6.5 12 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424720 · VA · Brookneal

218 Petroleum and petroleum products merchant wholesalers (except bulk stations, terminals) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 6 employers in Brookneal, 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 Central Texas 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tropic Transportation Establishment 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR A & I Distributors of Billings 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hanover 7.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Natrium Demonstration 166 FTE
STATE-SIZE English Construction Company, Inc. 166 FTE
STATE-SIZE VA, MD, DC 166 FTE
STATE-SIZE Brown & Settle, Inc. 166 FTE
CITY-NEAR Brookneal 142 FTE
CITY-NEAR Heritage Hall Brookneal 69 FTE
CITY-NEAR 01236 - STORE # 1236 BROOKNEAL 66 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1236 55 FTE
NAT-TCR Renaissance Roofing, Inc. 8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 359551-Yon-Tuckahoe Br 8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 1480 8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR New Albany Care Center 8.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE EPC- Elkhart 166 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dellenbach Motors 166 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bluffton Main Building 166 FTE
NAT-SIZE Western Rehabilitation Care Center 166 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: 2021, 2019, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.