Ship repair done in a shipyard · Virginia

Metro Machine Company DBA General Dynamics NASSCO-Norfolk

Norfolk, VA · ~780 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Metro Machine Company DBA General Dynamics NASSCO-Norfolk runs at 82% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Ship repair done in a shipyard workplace, earning a grade C.

Metro Machine Company DBA General Dynamics NASSCO-Norfolk: 2.7 TCR = 82% of Ship repair done in a shipyard BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Metro Machine Company DBA General Dynamics NASSCO-Norfolk safety composite

Metro Machine Company DBA General Dynamics NASSCO-Norfolk scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 66% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 48%), 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

56/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 66% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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%).

Metro Machine Company DBA General Dynamics NASSCO-Norfolk held a steady TCR band

Metro Machine Company DBA General Dynamics NASSCO-Norfolk's TCR held near 0.1 from 2.6 in 2017 to 2.8 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.83× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=2.6 · 2018=2.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336611 · Norfolk, VA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.7 · 82% of ind

  • DART 2.2 DART
  • RANK #31/73
  • PHOTO RMK Merrill Stevens
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 39 inj
  • SIZE ~780 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: RMK Merrill Stevens (0.0 TCR gap)

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Metro Machine Company DBA General Dynamics NASSCO-Norfolk in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Metro Machine Company DBA General Dynamics NASSCO-Norfolk averages 2.7 TCR (82% of the Ship repair done in a shipyard BLS benchmark).

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

Metro Machine Company DBA General Dynamics NASSCO-Norfolk TCR series: 2017=2.6 · 2018=2.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Metro Machine Company DBA General Dynamics NASSCO-Norfolk falls in its industry

454 Ship repair done in a shipyard establishments

Safer than 66% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #31 safest of 73 Ship repair done in a shipyard employers in Virginia.

Metro Machine Company DBA General Dynamics NASSCO-Norfolk (780 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 100 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Metro Machine Company DBA General Dynamics NASSCO-Norfolk
Metro Machine Company DBA General Dynamics NASSCO-Norfolk (780 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 100 employees and a TCR of 4.2

Metro Machine Company DBA General Dynamics NASSCO-Norfolk has more employees than the Ship repair done in a shipyard 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
2018 2.8 2.2 20 0 0
2017 2.6 1.7 19 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336611 · VA · Norfolk

454 Ship repair done in a shipyard employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 473 employers in Norfolk, 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 RMK Merrill Stevens 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Electric Boat, Groton, CT. 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Conrad Orange 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Walashek Industrial & Marine, Inc. - Norfolk 2.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE New River Valley Community Services 780 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southern Air, Inc. 778 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 7045 782 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mary Immaculate 783 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sentara Norfolk General Hospital 4,863 FTE
CITY-NEAR Childrens Hospital of The Kings Dau 3,707 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Atlantic Group dba DZ Atlantic 3,248 FTE
CITY-NEAR Norfolk State University 2,981 FTE
NAT-TCR Nelson Tree Service LLC 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR University Health Shreveport 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Shopko Store #81 (Yakima, WA) 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Baker Petrolite - Sand Springs 2.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Broadridge Financial Solutions - Edgewood Two 780 FTE
NAT-SIZE Batavia Ofc/Whse 780 FTE
NAT-SIZE Steel Dynamics Flat Roll Group - Butler 780 FTE
NAT-SIZE Arrowhead Products 780 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.