Casings, sausage, nonrigid plastics, manufacturing · Virginia

Porex Porous Technologies Richmond

Name: Porex Porous Technologies Richmond Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Colonial Heights, VA · ~134 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

B
Good Safety Record: 2.0
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Porex Porous Technologies Richmond runs at 60% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Casings, sausage, nonrigid plastics, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Porex Porous Technologies Richmond: 2.0 TCR = 60% of Casings, sausage, nonrigid plastics, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Porex Porous Technologies Richmond safety composite

Porex Porous Technologies Richmond scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 74% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 43%), 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).

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 1.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% of industry peers
DART rate: D 2.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% of industry peers
Fatalities: D 0

Safer than 50% 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

−0.8

2018→2020

Porex Porous Technologies Richmond injury rate improved

Porex Porous Technologies Richmond's TCR fell 0.8 from 3.0 in 2018 to 2.2 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2018 at 3.0 TCR. In 2020, DART was 1.12× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=3.0 · 2019=0.7 · 2020=2.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326121 · Colonial Heights, VA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.0 · 60% of ind

DART 2.2 DART
RANK #2/6
PHOTO Parkway Products Cob…
BOOK 3y book
INJ 8 inj
SIZE ~134 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Parkway Products Cobb Georgia (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cleanroom Film

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Athol

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Appleton South

1.9

What this shows Porex Porous Technologies Richmond averages 2.0 TCR (60% of the Casings, sausage, nonrigid plastics, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Porex Porous Technologies Richmond TCR series: 2018=3 · 2019=0.7 · 2020=2.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Porex Porous Technologies Richmond falls in its industry

202 Casings, sausage, nonrigid pla establishments

Safer than 74% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

Grade B

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 6 Casings, sausage, nonrigid pla employers in Virginia.

Porex Porous Technologies Richmond (134 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 71 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Porex Porous Technologies Richmond has more employees than the Casings, sausage, nonrigid plastics, man 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
2020	2.2	2.2	3
2019	0.7	0.7	1
2018	3.0	2.3	4

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326121 · VA · Colonial Heights

202 Casings, sausage, nonrigid plastics, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 71 employers in Colonial Heights, VA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Parkway Products Cobb Georgia	MARIETTA, GA	2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Cleanroom Film & Bags, Inc	ORANGE, CA	2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Appleton South	ELKTON, MD	1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Athol	ATHOL, MA	2.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Soli Organic Inc. - Harrisonburg Pack	HARRISONBURG	134 FTE
STATE-SIZE	US Offices (Non-GBU)	RESTON	134 FTE
STATE-SIZE	McAirlaid's, Inc.	ROCKY MOUNT	134 FTE
STATE-SIZE	AMCOR Tobacco packaging Richmond	CHESTER	134 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Hillphoenix Plant 1	Colonial Heights	767 FTE
CITY-NEAR	1424	Colonial Heights	434 FTE
CITY-NEAR	WM 1424	Colonial Heights	402 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Colonial Heights Public Schools	Colonial Heights	366 FTE
NAT-TCR	D&M Plastics, LLC	Burlington, IL	2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR	Pw2 - Public Works Administration	Tucson, AZ	2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR	Freudenberg Medical Carpinteria	Carpinteria, CA	2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR	Dynacraft - Louisville	Louisville, KY	2.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Honeywell Houston Technology Center	Houston, TX	134 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Capitol House Nursing Home	Baton Rouge, LA	134 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Milliken & Company - Alma Plant	Nicholls, GA	134 FTE
NAT-SIZE	LHB Duluth	Duluth, MN	134 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: 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.