Private warehousing and storage, refrigerated · Virginia

High Liner Foods (IWI)

Newport News, VA · ~43 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
5.4
Avg TCR
5.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

High Liner Foods (IWI) runs at 93% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Private warehousing and storage, refrigerated workplace, earning a grade C.

High Liner Foods (IWI): 5.4 TCR = 93% of Private warehousing and storage, refrigerated BLS 5.8 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

High Liner Foods (IWI) safety composite

High Liner Foods (IWI) scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% 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).

F

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% 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

High Liner Foods (IWI): 5.4 → 8.8 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 8.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.08× in 2021

High Liner Foods (IWI)'s TCR rose 3.4 from 5.4 in 2018 to 8.8 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 1.08× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 493120 · Newport News, VA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 5.4 · 93% of ind

  • DART 5.9 DART
  • RANK #18/27
  • PHOTO 6056
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~43 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 6056 (0.0 TCR gap)

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High Liner Foods (IWI) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows High Liner Foods (IWI) averages 5.4 TCR (93% of the Private warehousing and storage, refrigerated BLS benchmark).

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

High Liner Foods (IWI) TCR series: 2018=5.4 · 2019=1.9 · 2020=5.6 · 2021=8.8 · BLS 5.8

Where High Liner Foods (IWI) falls in its industry

1,039 Private warehousing and storag establishments

Safer than 32% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #18 safest of 27 Private warehousing and storag employers in Virginia.

High Liner Foods (IWI) (43 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 68 employees and a TCR of 3.9 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate High Liner Foods (IWI)
High Liner Foods (IWI) (43 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 68 employees and a TCR of 3.9

High Liner Foods (IWI) has fewer employees than the Private warehousing and storage, refrige median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.9. 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
2021 8.8 5.9 3 0 0
2020 5.6 2.8 2 0 0
2019 1.9 0.0 1 0 0
2018 5.4 5.4 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

493120 · VA · Newport News

1,039 Private warehousing and storage, refrigerated employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 330 employers in Newport News, 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 6056 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR OCS II 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cloverleaf Cold Storage-Plant 1 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 7016 5.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Tahoe Hydro 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Soli Organic Inc. - Elkwood 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Prospect Solar LLC 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Water and Sewer 43 FTE
CITY-NEAR Newport News Shipbuilding - Division of Huntington Ingalls Industries 24,543 FTE
CITY-NEAR Riverside Regional Medical Center 2,563 FTE
CITY-NEAR Riverside Regional Medical Center-113 1,680 FTE
CITY-NEAR 12490 Jefferson Ave 1,503 FTE
NAT-TCR Herbalife International - Carson 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR MHA 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR TRP 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Advanced Cutting Systems 5.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Brookdale Boise Parkcenter Assisted Living 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE J. Gill and Company 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ohio Precisiom Molding 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Conway 43 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, 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.