Other Grocery and Related Products Merchant Wholesalers · West Virginia

Nitro Wv (Charlestown)

Nitro, WV · ~93 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
15.9
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Nitro Wv (Charlestown) runs at 722% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Other Grocery and Related Products Merchant Wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Nitro Wv (Charlestown): 15.9 TCR = 722% of Other Grocery and Related Products Merchant Wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Nitro Wv (Charlestown) safety composite

Nitro Wv (Charlestown) scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 4%), 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

16/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 15.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

DART rate
F 14.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% 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

Nitro Wv (Charlestown): 14.4 → 17.4 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 17.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.91× in 2017

Nitro Wv (Charlestown)'s TCR rose 2.9 from 14.4 in 2016 to 17.4 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 0.91× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424490 · Nitro, WV ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 15.9 · 722% of ind

  • DART 14.5 DART
  • RANK #22/23
  • PHOTO FRANKFORT NY
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 33 inj
  • SIZE ~93 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: FRANKFORT NY (0.1 TCR gap)

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Nitro Wv (Charlestown) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Nitro Wv (Charlestown) averages 15.9 TCR (722% of the Other Grocery and Related Products Merchant Wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Nitro Wv (Charlestown) TCR series: 2016=14.4 · 2017=17.4 · BLS 2.2

Where Nitro Wv (Charlestown) falls in its industry

1,278 Other Grocery and Related Prod establishments

Safer than 4% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to West Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #22 safest of 23 Other Grocery and Related Prod employers in West Virginia.

Nitro Wv (Charlestown) (93 employees, TCR 15.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 6.0 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Nitro Wv (Charlestown)
Nitro Wv (Charlestown) (93 employees, TCR 15.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 6.0

Nitro Wv (Charlestown) has more employees than the Other Grocery and Related Products Merch median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.0. 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
2017 17.4 14.5 18 0 0
2016 14.4 14.4 15 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424490 · WV · Nitro

1,278 Other Grocery and Related Products Merchant Wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 2,269 rated employers in West Virginia with headcount on file · 31 employers in Nitro, WV · 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 FRANKFORT NY 15.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jack Hilliard Distributing Co., Inc Katy 15.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR HUNTINGTON WV 15.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR NICKLES-FAIRMONT 15.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Zim's Bagging 93 FTE
STATE-SIZE Brentwood Industries Inc. Martinsburg 93 FTE
STATE-SIZE W. A. Wilson & Sons, Inc. 93 FTE
STATE-SIZE 00820 - STORE # 820 ROMNEY 93 FTE
CITY-NEAR Charleston 1,686 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nitro Construction Services 396 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nitro Electric 001 315 FTE
CITY-NEAR Apex Pipeline Services, Inc. 298 FTE
NAT-TCR B & D Pallet Company 15.9 TCR
NAT-TCR MBK - Hillcrest 15.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Brookwood Skilled Nursing and Therapy 15.9 TCR
NAT-TCR ERC-Loveland 15.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE N and R of Greene Haven LLC 93 FTE
NAT-SIZE Forsyth Manor Inc 93 FTE
NAT-SIZE Giant 242 93 FTE
NAT-SIZE Homestead Center 93 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: 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.