Shipyard (i.e., facility capable of building ships) · Virginia

Newport News Shipbuilding - Division of Huntington Ingalls Industries

Newport News, VA · ~24,543 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
2
Fatalities
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The verdict

Newport News Shipbuilding - Division of Huntington Ingalls Industries runs at 146% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Shipyard (i.e., facility capable of building ships) workplace, earning a grade D.

Newport News Shipbuilding - Division of Huntington Ingalls Industries: 4.8 TCR = 146% of Shipyard (i.e., facility capable of building ships) BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Newport News Shipbuilding - Division of Huntington Ingalls Industries safety composite

Newport News Shipbuilding - Division of Huntington Ingalls Industries scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 43% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 0%), 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).

F

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 2

Safer than 0% 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%).

Newport News Shipbuilding - Division of Huntington Ingalls Industries held a steady TCR band

Newport News Shipbuilding - Division of Huntington Ingalls Industries's TCR held near 0.1 from 4.7 in 2016 to 4.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 5.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.78× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=4.7 · 2017=4.4 · 2018=4.3 · 2019=4.6 · 2020=4.8 · 2022=5.7 · 2023=5.3 · 2024=4.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336611 · Newport News, VA ABOVE-IND · LARGE

Grade D · TCR 4.8 · 146% of ind

  • DART 3.8 DART
  • RANK #48/73
  • PHOTO TSCA
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 7,097 inj
  • SIZE ~24,543 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: TSCA (0.0 TCR gap)

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Newport News Shipbuilding - Division of Huntington Ingalls Industries in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Newport News Shipbuilding - Division of Huntington Ingalls Industries averages 4.8 TCR (146% of the Shipyard (i.e., facility capable of building ships) BLS benchmark).

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

Newport News Shipbuilding - Division of Huntington Ingalls Industries TCR series: 2016=4.7 · 2017=4.4 · 2018=4.3 · 2019=4.6 · 2020=4.8 · 2022=5.7 · 2023=5.3 · 2024=4.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Newport News Shipbuilding - Division of Huntington Ingalls Industries falls in its industry

454 Shipyard (i.e., facility capab establishments

Safer than 43% 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 #48 safest of 73 Shipyard (i.e., facility capab employers in Virginia.

Newport News Shipbuilding - Division of Huntington Ingalls Industries (24,543 employees, TCR 4.8) 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 010,00020,00030,000 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Newport News Shipbuilding - Division of Huntington Ingalls Industries
Newport News Shipbuilding - Division of Huntington Ingalls Industries (24,543 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 100 employees and a TCR of 4.2

Newport News Shipbuilding - Division of Huntington Ingalls Industries has more employees than the Shipyard (i.e., facility capable of buil median and a higher 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 4.8 3.8 931 376 0
2023 5.3 4.2 1,059 353 0
2022 5.7 4.9 1,132 337 0
2020 4.8 3.5 880 384 0
2019 4.6 3.0 857 348 1
2018 4.3 3.5 775 271 1
2017 4.4 3.5 622 291 0
2016 4.7 4.0 841 105 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336611 · VA · Newport News

454 Shipyard (i.e., facility capable of building ships) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 330 employers in Newport News, 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 TSCA 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cascade General - Portland 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Burger Boat Company 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Swiftships LLC 4.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE HQ-Tysons Corner 23,344 FTE
STATE-SIZE VCU Health System 14,536 FTE
STATE-SIZE University of Virginia 11,898 FTE
STATE-SIZE Virginia Commonwealth University 11,826 FTE
CITY-NEAR Riverside Regional Medical Center 2,563 FTE
CITY-NEAR Riverside Regional Medical Center-113 1,680 FTE
CITY-NEAR 12490 Jefferson Ave 1,503 FTE
CITY-NEAR Riverside Medical Group-743 1,321 FTE
NAT-TCR AdventHealth North Pinellas 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Empire Truck Sales - Slidell 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Avilla Fabrication 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Munson Home Services 4.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE UC Davis 24,317 FTE
NAT-SIZE Michigan State University 24,146 FTE
NAT-SIZE The United States of America 25,000 FTE
NAT-SIZE Duke University 23,871 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.