Mining machinery and equipment repair and maintenance services · Virginia

Joy Global Underground LLC - Bluefield

Bluefield, VA · ~128 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.7
Avg TCR
2.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Joy Global Underground LLC - Bluefield runs at 178% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Mining machinery and equipment repair and maintenance services workplace, earning a grade D.

Joy Global Underground LLC - Bluefield: 3.7 TCR = 178% of Mining machinery and equipment repair and maintenance services BLS 2.1 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Joy Global Underground LLC - Bluefield safety composite

Joy Global Underground LLC - Bluefield scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 34%), 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

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% 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

−0.4

2016→2017

Joy Global Underground LLC - Bluefield injury rate improved

Joy Global Underground LLC - Bluefield's TCR fell 0.4 from 3.9 in 2016 to 3.6 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 3.9 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0.48× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=3.9 · 2017=3.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 811310 · Bluefield, VA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 3.7 · 178% of ind

  • DART 1.8 DART
  • RANK #37/59
  • PHOTO Traverse City
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~128 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Traverse City (0.0 TCR gap)

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Joy Global Underground LLC - Bluefield in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Joy Global Underground LLC - Bluefield averages 3.7 TCR (178% of the Mining machinery and equipment repair and maintenance services BLS benchmark).

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

Joy Global Underground LLC - Bluefield TCR series: 2016=3.9 · 2017=3.6 · BLS 2.1

Where Joy Global Underground LLC - Bluefield falls in its industry

2,560 Mining machinery and equipment establishments

Safer than 34% 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 #37 safest of 59 Mining machinery and equipment employers in Virginia.

Joy Global Underground LLC - Bluefield (128 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 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 0100200300400500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Joy Global Underground LLC - Bluefield
Joy Global Underground LLC - Bluefield (128 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 2.7

Joy Global Underground LLC - Bluefield has more employees than the Mining machinery and equipment repair an 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
2017 3.6 1.8 6 0 0
2016 3.9 3.9 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

811310 · VA · Bluefield

2,560 Mining machinery and equipment repair and maintenance services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 22 employers in Bluefield, 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 Traverse City 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dalton 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Crown Lift Trucks Columbia 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR OASIS Alignment Services LLC 3.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE HIGHWOODS ONE 128 FTE
STATE-SIZE SupplyOne Weyers Cave 128 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hutchinson Body Sealing North America 128 FTE
STATE-SIZE Water Quality : Sutron - Sterling 128 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1763 369 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1763 363 FTE
CITY-NEAR Komatsu - Bluefield 201 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6569 131 FTE
NAT-TCR Office/Plant 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Cloverleaf Cold Storage-Napoleon 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Clear Creek Nursing and Rehabilitation 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Shopko Store #130 (River Falls, WI) 3.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Headquarters 128 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cass County Medical Care Faciility 128 FTE
NAT-SIZE Accurate Molded Plastics 128 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brookdale Green Mountain 128 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.