Metal pipe merchant wholesalers · Virginia

NIBCO Buena Vista DC

Buena Vista, VA · ~33 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
1.9
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

NIBCO Buena Vista DC runs at 85% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Metal pipe merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade C.

NIBCO Buena Vista DC: 1.9 TCR = 85% of Metal pipe merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

NIBCO Buena Vista DC safety composite

NIBCO Buena Vista DC scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 81% 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

73/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% 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

−2.6

2019→2023

NIBCO Buena Vista DC injury rate improved

NIBCO Buena Vista DC's TCR fell 2.6 from 2.6 in 2019 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 3.5 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=2.6 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=3.3 · 2022=3.5 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423510 · Buena Vista, VA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 1.9 · 85% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #7/17
  • PHOTO Allied Crawford (Jac…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~33 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Allied Crawford (Jackson), Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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NIBCO Buena Vista DC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows NIBCO Buena Vista DC averages 1.9 TCR (85% of the Metal pipe merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

NIBCO Buena Vista DC TCR series: 2019=2.6 · 2020=0 · 2021=3.3 · 2022=3.5 · 2023=0 · BLS 2.2

Where NIBCO Buena Vista DC falls in its industry

1,299 Metal pipe merchant wholesaler establishments

Safer than 79% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 17 Metal pipe merchant wholesaler employers in Virginia.

NIBCO Buena Vista DC (33 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 3.7 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 050100150200250 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate NIBCO Buena Vista DC
NIBCO Buena Vista DC (33 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 3.7

NIBCO Buena Vista DC has fewer employees than the Metal pipe merchant wholesalers median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 3.5 3.5 1 0 0
2021 3.3 3.3 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 2.6 2.6 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423510 · VA · Buena Vista

1,299 Metal pipe merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 19 employers in Buena Vista, 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 Allied Crawford (Jackson), Inc. 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Liebovich Steel and Aluminum 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wieland Metal Services Foils, LLC 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR All Steel Products Inc. 1.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Commonwealth Gin 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE ALTAVISTA POWER STATION 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE NAES : Mecklenburg 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Orsted - Charlottesville 33 FTE
CITY-NEAR Modine Manufacturing Company - Buena Vista 217 FTE
CITY-NEAR Munters Corporation, Buena Vista, VA 211 FTE
CITY-NEAR Everbrite, LLC 113 FTE
CITY-NEAR Everbrite LLC - Buena Vista 110 FTE
NAT-TCR Freudenberg-NOK Sealing Technologies 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Hartung Glass Industries - Phoenix 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Heights Home Health 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Schmidtlein Excavating, Inc 1.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Isaac heating and air conditioning Twin Tiers 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Valley Dairy Restaurant #14 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Valley Dairy Restaurant #16 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hanson Trucking Inc 33 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.