Carpet linings (except felt) weaving · Virginia

Hillsville

Hillsville, VA · ~147 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hillsville runs at 58% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Carpet linings (except felt) weaving workplace, earning a grade B.

Hillsville: 1.9 TCR = 58% of Carpet linings (except felt) weaving BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hillsville safety composite

Hillsville scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 63% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 29%), 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

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 63% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% 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

Hillsville: 0.7 → 3.2 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 3.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.33× in 2018

Hillsville's TCR rose 2.5 from 0.7 in 2016 to 3.2 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 1.33× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 313210 · Hillsville, VA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 1.9 · 58% of ind

  • DART 2.5 DART
  • RANK #3/4
  • PHOTO Trion Mill
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~147 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Trion Mill (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hillsville in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hillsville averages 1.9 TCR (58% of the Carpet linings (except felt) weaving BLS benchmark).

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

Hillsville TCR series: 2016=0.7 · 2017=1.9 · 2018=3.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Hillsville falls in its industry

141 Carpet linings (except felt) w establishments

Safer than 63% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.6.

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 4 Carpet linings (except felt) w employers in Virginia.

Hillsville (147 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 136 employees and a TCR of 2.6 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Hillsville
Hillsville (147 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 136 employees and a TCR of 2.6

Hillsville has more employees than the Carpet linings (except felt) weaving median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.6. 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 3.2 2.5 5 0 0
2017 1.9 1.2 3 0 0
2016 0.7 0.7 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

313210 · VA · Hillsville

141 Carpet linings (except felt) weaving employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 20 employers in Hillsville, 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 Trion Mill 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Safety Components 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Burlington Industries Richmond 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR LaFrance 2.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Superior Iron Works 147 FTE
STATE-SIZE VSL Electrical Signing Lighting 147 FTE
STATE-SIZE Comfort Systems of Virginia, Inc. 147 FTE
STATE-SIZE 11-VA 147 FTE
CITY-NEAR Plant 32 - 35 425 FTE
CITY-NEAR Parkdale Mills, Inc Plant 32-35 320 FTE
CITY-NEAR Galax/Twin County Center 192 FTE
CITY-NEAR USA Hillsville VA 157 FTE
NAT-TCR Saint Vincent Medical Group 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Wilcox Medical - 1150 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Giant Eagle #8991 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Womack Transportation LLC 1.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Potlatch Land & Lumber, LLC. 147 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cocoa Center (Flcoc) 147 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kannapolis (Nckan) 147 FTE
NAT-SIZE Janesville (Wijan) 147 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, 2016. 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.