Solid Waste Combustors And Incinerators · Virginia

Portsmouth

Portsmouth, VA · ~69 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.8
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Portsmouth runs at 70% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Solid Waste Combustors And Incinerators workplace, earning a grade B.

Portsmouth: 1.8 TCR = 70% of Solid Waste Combustors And Incinerators BLS 2.6 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Portsmouth safety composite

Portsmouth scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 75% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

59/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 1.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Portsmouth: 0.0 → 1.4 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 5.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Portsmouth's TCR rose 1.4 from 0.0 in 2016 to 1.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 5.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562213 · Portsmouth, VA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.8 · 70% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #3/6
  • PHOTO Covanta York Renewab…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 26 inj
  • SIZE ~69 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Covanta York Renewable Energy LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Portsmouth in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Portsmouth averages 1.8 TCR (70% of the Solid Waste Combustors And Incinerators BLS benchmark).

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

Portsmouth TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0 · 2018=3.8 · 2019=0 · 2020=5.4 · 2021=0 · 2022=5.7 · 2023=0 · 2024=1.4 · BLS 2.6

Where Portsmouth falls in its industry

74 Solid Waste Combustors And Inc establishments

Safer than 51% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 6 Solid Waste Combustors And Inc employers in Virginia.

Portsmouth (69 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 1.9 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 Portsmouth
Portsmouth (69 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 1.9

Portsmouth has more employees than the Solid Waste Combustors And Incinerators median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.9. 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 1.4 0.0 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 5.7 2.9 2 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 5.4 2.2 22 2 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 3.8 3.8 1 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562213 · VA · Portsmouth

74 Solid Waste Combustors And Incinerators 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 Covanta York Renewable Energy LLC 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Saugus WtE 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wheelabrator Dutchess County L.L.C. 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Covanta Montgomery, Inc. 1.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE CHESAPEAKE DIST 69 FTE
STATE-SIZE W.C. Spratt, Inc. 69 FTE
STATE-SIZE WG Construction Co., Inc. 69 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Canada company,LLC 69 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 QSI Kinston 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Crown Lift Trucks Evansville 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR PPi Technologies group 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Giant Eagle #6539 1.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Linn County Rural Electric Cooperative 69 FTE
NAT-SIZE R&D 69 FTE
NAT-SIZE Verst 300/Corporate 69 FTE
NAT-SIZE CHG 69 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, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.