Applicators, wood, manufacturing · West Virginia

Grant County Mulch

Petersburg, WV · ~68 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Grant County Mulch runs at 179% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Applicators, wood, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Grant County Mulch: 5.9 TCR = 179% of Applicators, wood, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Grant County Mulch safety composite

Grant County Mulch scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 20%), 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

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Grant County Mulch: 3.2 → 8.6 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 8.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.88× in 2021

Grant County Mulch's TCR rose 5.4 from 3.2 in 2019 to 8.6 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 0.88× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321999 · Petersburg, WV ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.9 · 179% of ind

  • DART 5.2 DART
  • RANK #13/15
  • PHOTO Hartzell Hardwoods P…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~68 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hartzell Hardwoods Piqua (0.0 TCR gap)

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Grant County Mulch in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Grant County Mulch averages 5.9 TCR (179% of the Applicators, wood, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Grant County Mulch TCR series: 2019=3.2 · 2021=8.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Grant County Mulch falls in its industry

405 Applicators, wood, manufacturi establishments

Safer than 35% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to West Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 15 Applicators, wood, manufacturi employers in West Virginia.

Grant County Mulch (68 employees, TCR 5.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 050100150200250300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Grant County Mulch
Grant County Mulch (68 employees, TCR 5.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Grant County Mulch has more employees than the Applicators, wood, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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 8.6 5.2 5 0 0
2019 3.2 3.2 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321999 · WV · Petersburg

405 Applicators, wood, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 2,269 rated employers in West Virginia with headcount on file · 5 employers in Petersburg, WV · 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 Hartzell Hardwoods Piqua 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Baker McMillen - Stow 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Mulch & Soil Co. Cross City 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Willamette Valley Company - Site 12 5.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bluefield WV Svc Ctr 68 FTE
STATE-SIZE Harrisville Plant 68 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tri-State Machine 68 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mid Atlantic Fabrication LLC 68 FTE
CITY-NEAR GRANT REHABILITATION AND CARE CENTER 128 FTE
CITY-NEAR AWPI-Petersburg 100 FTE
CITY-NEAR Arthur 67 FTE
CITY-NEAR 22326 STORE 22326 24 FTE
NAT-TCR Life Care Center of Menifee 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Laurel Plant 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR FedEx Office DC Manufacturing Plant 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Lewiston Warehouse 5.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Roadrunner Transportation Services - Mira Loma 68 FTE
NAT-SIZE Vista Quality - Doniphan 68 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mayer Electric Supply Company, Inc. - Richmond 68 FTE
NAT-SIZE Community Center 68 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. 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.