Public utility (except transportation) commissions, nonoperating · Virginia

Newport News Waterworks

Newport News, VA · ~306 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.6
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Newport News Waterworks runs at 174% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Public utility (except transportation) commissions, nonoperating workplace, earning a grade D.

Newport News Waterworks: 5.6 TCR = 174% of Public utility (except transportation) commissions, nonoperating BLS 3.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Newport News Waterworks safety composite

Newport News Waterworks scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 35% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 2%), 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

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 2% 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 Waterworks held a steady TCR band

Newport News Waterworks's TCR held near 0.0 from 6.0 in 2020 to 6.0 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2020 at 6.0 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.94× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=6.0 · 2021=4.8 · 2022=6.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 926130 · Newport News, VA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.6 · 174% of ind

  • DART 5.3 DART
  • RANK #4/6
  • PHOTO Utilities
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 50 inj
  • SIZE ~306 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Utilities (0.2 TCR gap)

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Newport News Waterworks in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Newport News Waterworks averages 5.6 TCR (174% of the Public utility (except transportation) commissions, nonoperating BLS benchmark).

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

Newport News Waterworks TCR series: 2020=6 · 2021=4.8 · 2022=6 · BLS 3.2

Where Newport News Waterworks falls in its industry

43 Public utility (except transpo establishments

Safer than 35% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 6 Public utility (except transpo employers in Virginia.

Newport News Waterworks (306 employees, TCR 5.6) among 23 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 4.6 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 24 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 02,0004,0006,0008,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Newport News Waterworks
Newport News Waterworks (306 employees, TCR 5.6) among 23 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 4.6

Newport News Waterworks has more employees than the Public utility (except transportation) c median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.6. 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
2022 6.0 5.3 16 1 0
2021 4.8 4.5 15 0 1
2020 6.0 3.9 19 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

926130 · VA · Newport News

43 Public utility (except transportation) commissions, nonoperating 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 Utilities 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 40210301--DEVON ENERGY CENTER 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Municipal Building 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Community Action Commission of Santa Barbara County 5.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Tech Data Hernden 306 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corporate Toano 306 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 1309 306 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2520 306 FTE
CITY-NEAR Newport News Shipbuilding - Division of Huntington Ingalls Industries 24,543 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
NAT-TCR Tip Top Poultry Inc 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR PSSI - 0807 Case Farms - Morganton 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Columbia Industries 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Lunds & Byerlys, White Bear Lake 5.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Windy City Motorcycle Company All Locations 306 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bush Industries.com 306 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wright County- Sheriff Department 306 FTE
NAT-SIZE PLI Cards Asheville 306 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: 2022, 2021, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.