Prisons · Virginia

Red Onion State Prison

Pound, VA · ~514 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.9
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Red Onion State Prison runs at 121% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Prisons workplace, earning a grade D.

Red Onion State Prison: 3.9 TCR = 121% of Prisons BLS 3.2 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Red Onion State Prison safety composite

Red Onion State Prison scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 67% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 32%), 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

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 54% 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

Red Onion State Prison: 2.8 → 7.0 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 7.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.37× in 2024

Red Onion State Prison's TCR rose 4.3 from 2.8 in 2016 to 7.0 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.37× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922140 · Pound, VA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 3.9 · 121% of ind

  • DART 5.3 DART
  • RANK #32/51
  • PHOTO ASPC-Douglas
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 103 inj
  • SIZE ~514 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ASPC-Douglas (0.0 TCR gap)

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Red Onion State Prison in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Red Onion State Prison averages 3.9 TCR (121% of the Prisons BLS benchmark).

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

Red Onion State Prison TCR series: 2016=2.8 · 2018=2.4 · 2019=1.9 · 2020=2.8 · 2021=3.4 · 2022=4 · 2023=6.6 · 2024=7 · BLS 3.2

Where Red Onion State Prison falls in its industry

482 Prisons establishments

Safer than 67% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #32 safest of 51 Prisons employers in Virginia.

Red Onion State Prison (514 employees, TCR 3.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 240 employees and a TCR of 5.8 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 010203040 Average employees Total Case Rate Red Onion State Prison
Red Onion State Prison (514 employees, TCR 3.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 240 employees and a TCR of 5.8

Red Onion State Prison has more employees than the Prisons median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.8. 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 7.0 5.3 28 4 0
2023 6.6 3.0 21 12 0
2022 4.0 2.0 9 11 0
2021 3.4 1.7 8 8 0
2020 2.8 2.4 11 2 0
2019 1.9 1.7 8 1 0
2018 2.4 1.1 5 6 0
2016 2.8 2.8 13 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922140 · VA · Pound

482 Prisons employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 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 ASPC-Douglas 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Boyle County Detention Center 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR FCI BECKLEY 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Buckingham Correctional Center 3.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Timberville Processing plant 515 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wegmans Alexandria 49 513 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wegmans Alexandria 049 513 FTE
STATE-SIZE Center for Research & Technology 513 FTE
CITY-NEAR double kwik Pound 673 FTE
NAT-TCR Tampa Fl - Grady Ave 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR St Joe Express 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR TPI Aibonito 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR TPI Bayamon 3.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE S&F Concrete Contractors Corporation 514 FTE
NAT-SIZE Scottsville, DC 514 FTE
NAT-SIZE Clinton Power Station 514 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Lincoln Electric Company - Mentor 514 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, 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.