Cutting, engraving, etching, painting or polishing purchased glass · Virginia

Guardian Fabrication LLC

Galax, VA · ~249 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Guardian Fabrication LLC runs at 66% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Cutting, engraving, etching, painting or polishing purchased glass workplace, earning a grade B.

Guardian Fabrication LLC: 2.2 TCR = 66% of Cutting, engraving, etching, painting or polishing purchased glass BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Guardian Fabrication LLC safety composite

Guardian Fabrication LLC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 67% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 40%), 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

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% 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

Guardian Fabrication LLC: 1.1 → 3.2 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 3.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.05× in 2024

Guardian Fabrication LLC's TCR rose 2.1 from 1.1 in 2019 to 3.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 3.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.05× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 327215 · Galax, VA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.2 · 66% of ind

  • DART 2.3 DART
  • RANK #3/11
  • PHOTO Cardinal IG - Greenf…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~249 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cardinal IG - Greenfield IG (0.0 TCR gap)

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Guardian Fabrication LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Guardian Fabrication LLC averages 2.2 TCR (66% of the Cutting, engraving, etching, painting or polishing purchased glass BLS benchmark).

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

Guardian Fabrication LLC TCR series: 2019=1.1 · 2021=3.5 · 2023=0.8 · 2024=3.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Guardian Fabrication LLC falls in its industry

441 Cutting, engraving, etching, p establishments

Safer than 67% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 11 Cutting, engraving, etching, p employers in Virginia.

Guardian Fabrication LLC (249 employees, TCR 2.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 94 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Guardian Fabrication LLC
Guardian Fabrication LLC (249 employees, TCR 2.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 94 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Guardian Fabrication LLC has more employees than the Cutting, engraving, etching, painting or median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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 3.2 2.3 5 2 0
2023 0.8 0.4 2 0 0
2021 3.5 2.4 7 2 0
2019 1.1 0.8 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

327215 · VA · Galax

441 Cutting, engraving, etching, painting or polishing purchased glass employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 31 employers in Galax, 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 Cardinal IG - Greenfield IG 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pilkington North America 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Oldcastle BuildingEnvelope 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Majestic Kitchen & Bath Creations 2.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Southland 249 FTE
STATE-SIZE Consolidated Glass and Mirror, LLC Plant2 249 FTE
STATE-SIZE Anord Mardix (USA), Inc. 249 FTE
STATE-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - DOR1 249 FTE
CITY-NEAR DLP TWIN COUNTY REGIONAL HEALTHCARE LLC 462 FTE
CITY-NEAR Twin Co Regional Hospital 390 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1023 375 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1023 359 FTE
NAT-TCR Stock Yards Phoenix 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Metro Express Inc 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Peoria 10289 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Columbia 10217 2.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE The de Moya Group 249 FTE
NAT-SIZE Calel - San Bernardino Gateway 249 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gadal - Dalton 249 FTE
NAT-SIZE Scsmv - Summerville Center 249 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, 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.