Cleaners, drycleaning and laundry service (except coin-operated) · Virginia

HandCraft Dry Cleaners

Richmond, VA · ~45 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.9
Avg TCR
2.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

HandCraft Dry Cleaners runs at 183% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Cleaners, drycleaning and laundry service (except coin-operated) workplace, earning a grade D.

HandCraft Dry Cleaners: 3.9 TCR = 183% of Cleaners, drycleaning and laundry service (except coin-operated) BLS 2.1 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

HandCraft Dry Cleaners safety composite

HandCraft Dry Cleaners scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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).

D

38/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% 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

HandCraft Dry Cleaners: 2.5 → 5.2 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 5.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.36× in 2018

HandCraft Dry Cleaners's TCR rose 2.8 from 2.5 in 2017 to 5.2 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 1.36× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 812320 · Richmond, VA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 3.9 · 183% of ind

  • DART 5.2 DART
  • RANK #3/7
  • PHOTO Gunderson Cleaners
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~45 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Gunderson Cleaners (0.1 TCR gap)

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HandCraft Dry Cleaners in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows HandCraft Dry Cleaners averages 3.9 TCR (183% of the Cleaners, drycleaning and laundry service (except coin-operated) BLS benchmark).

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

HandCraft Dry Cleaners TCR series: 2017=2.5 · 2018=5.2 · BLS 2.1

Where HandCraft Dry Cleaners falls in its industry

193 Cleaners, drycleaning and laun establishments

Safer than 47% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.6.

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 7 Cleaners, drycleaning and laun employers in Virginia.

HandCraft Dry Cleaners (45 employees, TCR 3.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 3.6 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate HandCraft Dry Cleaners
HandCraft Dry Cleaners (45 employees, TCR 3.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 3.6

HandCraft Dry Cleaners has fewer employees than the Cleaners, drycleaning and laundry servic median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.6. 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
2018 5.2 5.2 2 0 0
2017 2.5 2.5 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

812320 · VA · Richmond

193 Cleaners, drycleaning and laundry service (except coin-operated) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 939 employers in Richmond, 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 Gunderson Cleaners 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Office/Plant 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sudsies Inc 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Southeast Georgia Brunswick Campus - Laundry 3.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE VA09S-SEL-VIRGINIA SERVICE ROOM 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE GREENSVILLE COUNTY POWER STATION 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE City of Harrisonburg Public Utilities 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Farmville Public Works 45 FTE
CITY-NEAR VCU Health System 14,536 FTE
CITY-NEAR Virginia Commonwealth University 11,826 FTE
CITY-NEAR VCU 5,271 FTE
CITY-NEAR CJW Medical Center 3,259 FTE
NAT-TCR Iowa 80 Group 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Open Systems Healthcare - WPB 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Westwood Hills Nursing & Rehab 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Lehigh Lansdale - Hagerstown - DTI 3.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Center for Community - Anchorage 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Atlas Construction Group 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Emhart Glass Mfg. Inc. 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE CHR- New Life Center 45 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: 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.