Chewing tobacco manufacturing · Virginia

Richmond MC - USSTC

Richmond, VA · ~114 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Richmond MC - USSTC runs at 71% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Chewing tobacco manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Richmond MC - USSTC: 2.3 TCR = 71% of Chewing tobacco manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Richmond MC - USSTC safety composite

Richmond MC - USSTC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 24%), 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

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

Richmond MC - USSTC: 0.0 → 4.3 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 4.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.23× in 2024

Richmond MC - USSTC's TCR rose 4.3 from 0.0 in 2019 to 4.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.23× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 312230 · Richmond, VA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.3 · 71% of ind

  • DART 2.9 DART
  • RANK #1/5
  • PHOTO US Flue-Cured Tobacc…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 19 inj
  • SIZE ~114 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: US Flue-Cured Tobacco Growers Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Richmond MC - USSTC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Richmond MC - USSTC averages 2.3 TCR (71% of the Chewing tobacco manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Richmond MC - USSTC TCR series: 2019=0 · 2020=1.8 · 2021=1 · 2022=3.3 · 2023=3.7 · 2024=4.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Richmond MC - USSTC falls in its industry

53 Chewing tobacco manufacturing establishments

Safer than 40% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 5 Chewing tobacco manufacturing employers in Virginia.

Richmond MC - USSTC (114 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 153 employees and a TCR of 2.1 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 05001,0001,5002,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Richmond MC - USSTC
Richmond MC - USSTC (114 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 153 employees and a TCR of 2.1

Richmond MC - USSTC has fewer employees than the Chewing tobacco manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.1. 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 4.3 2.9 6 3 0
2023 3.7 2.6 6 1 0
2022 3.3 3.3 5 0 0
2021 1.0 0.0 1 0 0
2020 1.8 1.8 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

312230 · VA · Richmond

53 Chewing tobacco manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 939 employers in Richmond, 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 US Flue-Cured Tobacco Growers Inc. 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ohserase Manufacturing 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Swisher International 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR J.C. Newman Cigar Company 2.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE WVWA Field Operations 114 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cleco Corporation 114 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mid-Atlantic Steel Erectors, Inc. 114 FTE
STATE-SIZE ACTA, LLC D/B/A Russell's 114 FTE
CITY-NEAR VCU Health System 14,536 FTE
CITY-NEAR Virginia Commonwealth University 11,826 FTE
CITY-NEAR VCU 5,271 FTE
CITY-NEAR CJW Medical Center 3,259 FTE
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Cmmc Fm 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 693 - Whittier 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Skyland Grain, LLC- Ulysses 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Innovex Downhole Solutions Midland OH 2.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE AFL IG Kent, WA 114 FTE
NAT-SIZE SJS Mechanical Services 114 FTE
NAT-SIZE 04 - Montgomery-Dc 114 FTE
NAT-SIZE 31 - Madison Heights 114 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. 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.