Community colleges · Virginia

Northern Virginia Community College - MEC

Fairfax, VA · ~299 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
0.8
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Northern Virginia Community College - MEC runs at 60% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Community colleges workplace, earning a grade B.

Northern Virginia Community College - MEC: 0.8 TCR = 60% of Community colleges BLS 1.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Northern Virginia Community College - MEC safety composite

Northern Virginia Community College - MEC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 76% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 40%), 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

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 0.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% 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

Northern Virginia Community College - MEC: 0.5 → 1.0 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 1.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.62× in 2024

Northern Virginia Community College - MEC's TCR rose 0.5 from 0.5 in 2022 to 1.0 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.62× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 611210 · Fairfax, VA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 0.8 · 60% of ind

  • DART 0.5 DART
  • RANK #5/9
  • PHOTO MORAINE VALLEY COMMU…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~299 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: MORAINE VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE #524 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Northern Virginia Community College - MEC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Northern Virginia Community College - MEC averages 0.8 TCR (60% of the Community colleges BLS benchmark).

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

Northern Virginia Community College - MEC TCR series: 2022=0.5 · 2023=1 · 2024=1 · BLS 1.4

Where Northern Virginia Community College - MEC falls in its industry

127 Community colleges establishments

Safer than 76% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 9 Community colleges employers in Virginia.

Northern Virginia Community College - MEC (299 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 400 employees and a TCR of 1.4 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 01,0002,0003,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Northern Virginia Community College - MEC
Northern Virginia Community College - MEC (299 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 400 employees and a TCR of 1.4

Northern Virginia Community College - MEC has fewer employees than the Community colleges median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.4. 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 1.0 0.5 2 0 0
2023 1.0 0.0 2 0 0
2022 0.5 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611210 · VA · Fairfax

127 Community colleges employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 226 employers in Fairfax, 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 MORAINE VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE #524 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Anoka-Ramsey Community College - Coon Rapids 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chattanooga State Community College 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Northern Virginia Community College - Loudoun 0.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE PerLectric 299 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 5922 299 FTE
STATE-SIZE BRISTOL (VABRI) 299 FTE
STATE-SIZE Virginia Veterans Care Center 299 FTE
CITY-NEAR Inova Health System 2,608 FTE
CITY-NEAR Inova Physician Group 2,539 FTE
CITY-NEAR Inova Fair Oaks Hospital 1,153 FTE
CITY-NEAR Northern Virginia Community College - Annandale 870 FTE
NAT-TCR Mhhs-Cypress Hosp 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR McGehee Producers Gin 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Gracie's Kitchens Inc. 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR W. L. Butler 0.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Clinton's Ditch Cooperative 299 FTE
NAT-SIZE Shoprite of Avenue I 299 FTE
NAT-SIZE Grand Hyatt Washington 299 FTE
NAT-SIZE Corporate 299 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. 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.