Chain link fence installation · Virginia

Hercules Fence Company Inc.

Norfolk, VA · ~90 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.6
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hercules Fence Company Inc. runs at 20% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Chain link fence installation workplace, earning a grade A.

Hercules Fence Company Inc.: 0.6 TCR = 20% of Chain link fence installation BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hercules Fence Company Inc. safety composite

Hercules Fence Company Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 38%), 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).

C

59/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 0.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% 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

Hercules Fence Company Inc.: 0.0 → 1.1 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 1.1 TCR · DART/TCR 2.02× in 2017

Hercules Fence Company Inc.'s TCR rose 1.1 from 0.0 in 2016 to 1.1 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 2.02× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238990 · Norfolk, VA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.6 · 20% of ind

  • DART 1.1 DART
  • RANK #5/38
  • PHOTO Big B Crane, LLC
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~90 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Big B Crane, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hercules Fence Company Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hercules Fence Company Inc. averages 0.6 TCR (20% of the Chain link fence installation BLS benchmark).

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

Hercules Fence Company Inc. TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=1.1 · BLS 2.8

Where Hercules Fence Company Inc. falls in its industry

1,634 Chain link fence installation establishments

Safer than 82% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

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 38 Chain link fence installation employers in Virginia.

Hercules Fence Company Inc. (90 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 1.9 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 05001,0001,500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Hercules Fence Company Inc.
Hercules Fence Company Inc. (90 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 1.9

Hercules Fence Company Inc. has more employees than the Chain link fence installation median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.9. 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
2017 1.1 1.1 1 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238990 · VA · Norfolk

1,634 Chain link fence installation employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 473 employers in Norfolk, 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 Big B Crane, LLC 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Louisiana Crane & Construction, LLC 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR BrandSafway Solutions, LLC - Charleston Branch 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Thompson Industrial Services, LLC, Division 31 0.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE City of Chesapeake 90 FTE
STATE-SIZE Timberlake Cabinetry - A Division of American Woodmark 90 FTE
STATE-SIZE B&B SIGNAL COMPANY LLC. 90 FTE
STATE-SIZE Professional Fire Protection 90 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sentara Norfolk General Hospital 4,863 FTE
CITY-NEAR Childrens Hospital of The Kings Dau 3,707 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Atlantic Group dba DZ Atlantic 3,248 FTE
CITY-NEAR Norfolk State University 2,981 FTE
NAT-TCR Lone StarPaving Company - San Antonio 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR JIS at ExxonMobil Billings 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR ANC Alaska Airlines Regional Building 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Battelle - Atlanta Operations - Roybal Campus 0.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE N and R of New Madrid LLC 90 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jade Equipment Corp. 90 FTE
NAT-SIZE Peapod S&S Framingham, Ma 90 FTE
NAT-SIZE United Mail Sorting, Inc. 90 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: 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.