Water distribution (except irrigation) · West Virginia

Kanawha Valley Ops Center

Charleston, WV · ~132 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
1.4
Avg TCR
1.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kanawha Valley Ops Center runs at 119% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Water distribution (except irrigation) workplace, earning a grade C.

Kanawha Valley Ops Center: 1.4 TCR = 119% of Water distribution (except irrigation) BLS 1.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kanawha Valley Ops Center safety composite

Kanawha Valley Ops Center scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 85% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

B

76/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% 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

−2.1

2022→2024

Kanawha Valley Ops Center injury rate improved

Kanawha Valley Ops Center's TCR fell 2.1 from 2.1 in 2022 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 2.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=2.1 · 2023=2.2 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 221310 · Charleston, WV ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 1.4 · 119% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #2/5
  • PHOTO Artesian Water Compa…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~132 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Artesian Water Company, Inc.- Newark Establishment (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kanawha Valley Ops Center in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kanawha Valley Ops Center averages 1.4 TCR (119% of the Water distribution (except irrigation) BLS benchmark).

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

Kanawha Valley Ops Center TCR series: 2022=2.1 · 2023=2.2 · 2024=0 · BLS 1.2

Where Kanawha Valley Ops Center falls in its industry

727 Water distribution (except irr establishments

Safer than 85% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to West Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 5 Water distribution (except irr employers in West Virginia.

Kanawha Valley Ops Center (132 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.2 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 0100200300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Kanawha Valley Ops Center
Kanawha Valley Ops Center (132 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.2

Kanawha Valley Ops Center has more employees than the Water distribution (except irrigation) median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.2. 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 2.2 1.4 3 0 0
2022 2.1 0.7 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

221310 · WV · Charleston

727 Water distribution (except irrigation) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 2,269 rated employers in West Virginia with headcount on file · 158 employers in Charleston, WV · 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 Artesian Water Company, Inc.- Newark Establishment 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Joint Municipal Water and Sewer Commission 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Warren County Water District 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR New Jersey American Water - Short Hills 1.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE WM 8189 132 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rustoleum Martinsburg WV Distribution Center 132 FTE
STATE-SIZE Administration Building 132 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mon County EMS 132 FTE
CITY-NEAR CAMC Memorial Hospital 3,442 FTE
CITY-NEAR CAMC Memorial Division 3,374 FTE
CITY-NEAR Memorial Hospital 3,232 FTE
CITY-NEAR Charleston Area Medical Center General Division 1,990 FTE
NAT-TCR Hochstetler Wood 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Burton location 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Southwest 2 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Amcor Rigid Packaging 1.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Insulation Northwest 132 FTE
NAT-SIZE Package Pavement Company, Inc. 132 FTE
NAT-SIZE Grove Hill Memorial Hospital 132 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4over LLC - Sperry 132 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, 2022. 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.