Plastics Pipe and Pipe Fitting Manufacturing · Virginia

Harco Plant

Lynchburg, VA · ~101 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Harco Plant runs at 177% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Plastics Pipe and Pipe Fitting Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Harco Plant: 5.8 TCR = 177% of Plastics Pipe and Pipe Fitting Manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Harco Plant safety composite

Harco Plant scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 84% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 27%), 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

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% 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

−4.1

2016→2020

Harco Plant injury rate improved

Harco Plant's TCR fell 4.1 from 7.2 in 2016 to 3.1 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2017 at 9.4 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=7.2 · 2017=9.4 · 2019=3.6 · 2020=3.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326122 · Lynchburg, VA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.8 · 177% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #5/6
  • PHOTO CANTEX INC. Kingman
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 23 inj
  • SIZE ~101 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: CANTEX INC. Kingman (0.0 TCR gap)

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Harco Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Harco Plant averages 5.8 TCR (177% of the Plastics Pipe and Pipe Fitting Manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Harco Plant TCR series: 2016=7.2 · 2017=9.4 · 2019=3.6 · 2020=3.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Harco Plant falls in its industry

332 Plastics Pipe and Pipe Fitting establishments

Safer than 27% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 6 Plastics Pipe and Pipe Fitting employers in Virginia.

Harco Plant (101 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.7 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Harco Plant
Harco Plant (101 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Harco Plant has more employees than the Plastics Pipe and Pipe Fitting Manufactu median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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
2020 3.1 0.0 3 0 0
2019 3.6 1.8 3 1 0
2017 9.4 4.2 9 0 0
2016 7.2 0.0 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326122 · VA · Lynchburg

332 Plastics Pipe and Pipe Fitting Manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 360 employers in Lynchburg, 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 CANTEX INC. Kingman 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pinrsco, Inc.-Chatsworth 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Haviland Plastic Products 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR NOV Fiber Glass Systems - Wichita 5.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Julius Branscome Inc. 101 FTE
STATE-SIZE Trumbo Electric, Inc. 101 FTE
STATE-SIZE Petersburg Container 101 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tegra Suffolk 101 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lynchburg General Hospital 2,596 FTE
CITY-NEAR BWXT NOG Lynchburg 2,200 FTE
CITY-NEAR BWXT Nuclear Operations Group, Inc. - Lynchburg 2,180 FTE
CITY-NEAR Centra Urgent Care Forest 1,283 FTE
NAT-TCR CFG Systems Inc 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR St Cloud Mn Corps 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Crowther Roofing and Sheet Metal of Florida, Inc. 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Cri Feeders of Guymon, LLC 5.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Thrift Books Global, LLC (Baltimore, MD) 101 FTE
NAT-SIZE Airway- GR-Clydon 101 FTE
NAT-SIZE Discovery Village at the Forum-A.L. 101 FTE
NAT-SIZE Emerald Construction Corp 101 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: 2020, 2019, 2017, 2016. 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.