Trucking, general freight, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) · Virginia

Norfolk Nfk

Portsmouth, VA · ~52 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Norfolk Nfk runs at 123% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Trucking, general freight, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) workplace, earning a grade D.

Norfolk Nfk: 5.5 TCR = 123% of Trucking, general freight, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Norfolk Nfk safety composite

Norfolk Nfk scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 12%), 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).

D

38/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Norfolk Nfk: 2.0 → 11.3 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 11.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.63× in 2024

Norfolk Nfk's TCR rose 9.3 from 2.0 in 2019 to 11.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.63× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484122 · Portsmouth, VA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.5 · 123% of ind

  • DART 9.1 DART
  • RANK #36/68
  • PHOTO XPN
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~52 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: XPN (0.0 TCR gap)

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Norfolk Nfk in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Norfolk Nfk averages 5.5 TCR (123% of the Trucking, general freight, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) BLS benchmark).

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

Norfolk Nfk TCR series: 2019=2 · 2020=6.9 · 2021=2.2 · 2022=5 · 2023=5.9 · 2024=11.3 · BLS 4.5

Where Norfolk Nfk falls in its industry

3,020 Trucking, general freight, lon establishments

Safer than 51% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #36 safest of 68 Trucking, general freight, lon employers in Virginia.

Norfolk Nfk (52 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 5.6 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Norfolk Nfk
Norfolk Nfk (52 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 5.6

Norfolk Nfk has fewer employees than the Trucking, general freight, long-distance median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.6. 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
2024 11.3 9.1 5 0 0
2023 5.9 5.9 3 0 0
2022 5.0 1.7 3 0 0
2021 2.2 2.2 1 0 0
2020 6.9 6.9 3 0 0
2019 2.0 2.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484122 · VA · Portsmouth

3,020 Trucking, general freight, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 137 employers in Portsmouth, 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 XPN 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Des Moines 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Longview TX FXFE-LVW 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Newark NJ FXFE-NEW 5.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Virginia Warehouse 52 FTE
STATE-SIZE CHARLOTTESVILLE-GAS 52 FTE
STATE-SIZE Environmental Systems Service, Ltd. (Culpeper, VA) 52 FTE
STATE-SIZE 300-DREES-WASHINGTON DC 52 FTE
CITY-NEAR Maryview Medical Center 1,724 FTE
CITY-NEAR Virginia International Gateway 926 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ceres Hampton Roads 797 FTE
CITY-NEAR Virginia International Gateway by Virginia Interna 545 FTE
NAT-TCR Fairview Mills, Fairview 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Penn Foam Corp. 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Plant 05 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Hogan Glass, LLC 5.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Shasta Beverages, inc Lenexa 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE Northern California 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE MEJA Construction, Inc. 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE Customer Service Group Harrisburg Repair Center 52 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, 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.