Refrigerated warehousing · Virginia

High Liner Foods - IWI

Newport News, VA · ~45 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
6.4
Avg TCR
5.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

High Liner Foods - IWI runs at 110% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Refrigerated warehousing workplace, earning a grade C.

High Liner Foods - IWI: 6.4 TCR = 110% of Refrigerated warehousing BLS 5.8 · 3y 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 total case rate (tcr) (safer than 24%), 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)
F 6.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% 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

−10.2

2016→2024

High Liner Foods - IWI injury rate improved

High Liner Foods - IWI's TCR fell 10.2 from 13.0 in 2016 to 2.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 13.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.44× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=13.0 · 2017=3.2 · 2024=2.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 493120 · Newport News, VA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 6.4 · 110% of ind

  • DART 2.8 DART
  • RANK #22/27
  • PHOTO Sioux City Freezer
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~45 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sioux City Freezer (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 6.4 TCR (110% of the Refrigerated warehousing 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: 2016=13 · 2017=3.2 · 2024=2.8 · BLS 5.8

Where High Liner Foods - IWI falls in its industry

1,039 Refrigerated warehousing establishments

Safer than 24% 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 #22 safest of 27 Refrigerated warehousing employers in Virginia.

High Liner Foods - IWI (45 employees, TCR 6.4) 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 (45 employees, TCR 6.4) 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 Refrigerated warehousing 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
2024 2.8 2.8 1 0 0
2017 3.2 3.2 2 0 0
2016 13.0 9.3 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

493120 · VA · Newport News

1,039 Refrigerated warehousing 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 Sioux City Freezer 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR ABW 2850 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Crowne Cold Storage, LLC 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Houston Gulf Coast 6.4 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 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 Pleasant Lake Nursing Home Inc 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Oklahoma City,OK - 402P 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Mayd LLC 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Linden 6.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Arbor Industries, Inc 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kemira Water Solutions Inc 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE SME Steel Utah Field 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dominion Florence, LLC 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: 2024, 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.