Poles, round wood, cutting and treating · Virginia

Koppers Newsoms

Newsoms, VA · ~56 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Koppers Newsoms runs at 55% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Poles, round wood, cutting and treating workplace, earning a grade B.

Koppers Newsoms: 1.8 TCR = 55% of Poles, round wood, cutting and treating BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Koppers Newsoms safety composite

Koppers Newsoms scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 88% 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).

C

67/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 88% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Koppers Newsoms: 0.0 → 3.0 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 4.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.83× in 2024

Koppers Newsoms's TCR rose 3.0 from 0.0 in 2021 to 3.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 4.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.83× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321114 · Newsoms, VA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.8 · 55% of ind

  • DART 1.5 DART
  • RANK #3/8
  • PHOTO Hoover Treated Wood …
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~56 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hoover Treated Wood Products - Pine Bluff (0.0 TCR gap)

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Koppers Newsoms in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Koppers Newsoms averages 1.8 TCR (55% of the Poles, round wood, cutting and treating BLS benchmark).

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

Koppers Newsoms TCR series: 2021=0 · 2022=4.3 · 2023=0 · 2024=3 · BLS 3.3

Where Koppers Newsoms falls in its industry

183 Poles, round wood, cutting and establishments

Safer than 88% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

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 8 Poles, round wood, cutting and employers in Virginia.

Koppers Newsoms (56 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 4.3 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 050100150 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Koppers Newsoms
Koppers Newsoms (56 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 4.3

Koppers Newsoms has more employees than the Poles, round wood, cutting and treating median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.3. 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 3.0 1.5 2 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 4.3 1.4 2 1 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321114 · VA · Newsoms

183 Poles, round wood, cutting and treating employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 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 Hoover Treated Wood Products - Pine Bluff 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR GSWP-Corp Maintenance 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR CM Tucker Lumber of Pageland 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Louisiana-Pacific Watkins 1.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE PACKING HOUSE 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE PORTSMOUTH DIST 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE 206-NiSource-Fredericksburg VA-Commerce 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE Atlantic Contruction Utilities INC. 56 FTE
CITY-NEAR Atlantic Pole-Virginia, LLC 39 FTE
NAT-TCR Cal-Maine Mendenhall Hatchery 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Brewers Supply Group - Atlanta GA 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Hayner Hoyt Corp 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Ambient Comfort LLC 1.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Koppers Eutawville 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE Prairie Farms Dairy - Mindoro 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE Delano CA 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE Delta Sand & Gravel Co. 56 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, 2021. 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.