Automotive, truck and bus steering assemblies and parts manufacturing · Virginia

R. H. Sheppard Co., Inc

Wytheville, VA · ~51 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.7
Avg TCR
5.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

R. H. Sheppard Co., Inc runs at 31% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Automotive, truck and bus steering assemblies and parts manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

R. H. Sheppard Co., Inc: 1.7 TCR = 31% of Automotive, truck and bus steering assemblies and parts manufacturing BLS 5.4 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

R. H. Sheppard Co., Inc safety composite

R. H. Sheppard Co., Inc scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 87% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

70/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 66% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% 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%).

R. H. Sheppard Co., Inc held a steady TCR band

R. H. Sheppard Co., Inc's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2020 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 4.3 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=0.0 · 2021=2.4 · 2022=4.3 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336330 · Wytheville, VA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.7 · 31% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK P66
  • PHOTO Mitchell
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~51 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Mitchell (0.0 TCR gap)

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R. H. Sheppard Co., Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows R. H. Sheppard Co., Inc averages 1.7 TCR (31% of the Automotive, truck and bus steering assemblies and parts manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

R. H. Sheppard Co., Inc TCR series: 2020=0 · 2021=2.4 · 2022=4.3 · 2023=0 · BLS 5.4

Where R. H. Sheppard Co., Inc falls in its industry

134 Automotive, truck and bus stee establishments

Safer than 66% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
R. H. Sheppard Co., Inc (51 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 192 employees and a TCR of 2.7 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 05001,0001,500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate R. H. Sheppard Co., Inc
R. H. Sheppard Co., Inc (51 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 192 employees and a TCR of 2.7

R. H. Sheppard Co., Inc has fewer employees than the Automotive, truck and bus steering assem median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.7. 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 Illnesses Fatalities
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 4.3 2.1 2 0 0
2021 2.4 0.0 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336330 · VA · Wytheville

134 Automotive, truck and bus steering assemblies and parts manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 56 employers in Wytheville, 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 Mitchell 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR NSK Steering Systems America 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 3150 Dove St. 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nexteer Automotive Saginaw Site 1.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Glade Spring Svc Ctr 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE Charlottesville - Gas 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lionberger Construction 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE purcell construction inc. Virginia 51 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mount Rogers Community Services 700 FTE
CITY-NEAR WYTHEVILLE VA 378 FTE
CITY-NEAR Somic America 376 FTE
CITY-NEAR BLUE RIDGE VA GATORADE 374 FTE
NAT-TCR Hotard Coaches - Port Arthur 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Mill Tech, LLC 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Tube Service 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Solvay Chemicals, Inc. 1.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Cardinal Healthcare 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Manufacturing Plant 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE I C Reed and Sons Inc 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dee Zee T&D 51 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020. 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.