Adhesives (except asphalt, dental, gypsum base) manufacturing · Virginia

ICP Choice Adhesives Buchanan

Lynchburg, VA · ~37 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

ICP Choice Adhesives Buchanan runs at 190% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Adhesives (except asphalt, dental, gypsum base) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

ICP Choice Adhesives Buchanan: 6.3 TCR = 190% of Adhesives (except asphalt, dental, gypsum base) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

ICP Choice Adhesives Buchanan safety composite

ICP Choice Adhesives Buchanan scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 14%), 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

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% 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%).

TCR Δ

−12.5

2023→2024

ICP Choice Adhesives Buchanan injury rate improved

ICP Choice Adhesives Buchanan's TCR fell 12.5 from 12.5 in 2023 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 12.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=12.5 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325520 · Lynchburg, VA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.3 · 190% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #4/4
  • PHOTO Roberts Capitol, Inc.
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~37 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Roberts Capitol, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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ICP Choice Adhesives Buchanan in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows ICP Choice Adhesives Buchanan averages 6.3 TCR (190% of the Adhesives (except asphalt, dental, gypsum base) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

ICP Choice Adhesives Buchanan TCR series: 2023=12.5 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where ICP Choice Adhesives Buchanan falls in its industry

287 Adhesives (except asphalt, den establishments

Safer than 14% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 4 Adhesives (except asphalt, den employers in Virginia.

ICP Choice Adhesives Buchanan (37 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 2.7 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 0100200300400 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate ICP Choice Adhesives Buchanan
ICP Choice Adhesives Buchanan (37 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 2.7

ICP Choice Adhesives Buchanan has fewer employees than the Adhesives (except asphalt, dental, gypsu median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.7. 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
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 12.5 12.5 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325520 · VA · Lynchburg

287 Adhesives (except asphalt, dental, gypsum base) 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 Roberts Capitol, Inc. 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Seal Bond Inc - NS1 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Silco, Inc. 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR IC100 6.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Silver Creek Orchards, Inc. 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Robert S. Coleman Lumber Co., Inc 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pulaski Svc Ctr 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Central District 37 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 Watson Metal Masters 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Hyatt Regency Chicago 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Giant Food Stores 6305 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Txama - Amarillo 6.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE MECS Inc. 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brookdale East Side 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brookdale Trail Ridge 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rock Island 10426 37 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, 2023. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.