Courier Services Except by Air · Virginia

Richmond (Varmd)

Richmond, VA · ~2,148 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
3.7
Avg TCR
6.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Richmond (Varmd) runs at 57% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Courier Services Except by Air workplace, earning a grade B.

Richmond (Varmd): 3.7 TCR = 57% of Courier Services Except by Air BLS 6.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Richmond (Varmd) safety composite

Richmond (Varmd) scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 86% 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

74/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 3.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% of industry peers

DART rate
B 2.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Richmond (Varmd): 3.8 → 4.8 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 4.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.8× in 2018

Richmond (Varmd)'s TCR rose 1.0 from 3.8 in 2016 to 4.8 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.8× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 492110 · Richmond, VA AT/BELOW-IND · LARGE

Grade B · TCR 3.7 · 57% of ind

  • DART 3.0 DART
  • RANK #26/165
  • PHOTO Concord
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 150 inj
  • SIZE ~2,148 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Concord (0.0 TCR gap)

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Richmond (Varmd) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Richmond (Varmd) averages 3.7 TCR (57% of the Courier Services Except by Air BLS benchmark).

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

Richmond (Varmd) TCR series: 2016=3.8 · 2017=2.5 · 2018=4.8 · BLS 6.5

Where Richmond (Varmd) falls in its industry

6,679 Courier Services Except by Air establishments

Safer than 86% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 8.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #26 safest of 165 Courier Services Except by Air employers in Virginia.

Richmond (Varmd) (2,148 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 8.0 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 01,0002,0003,0004,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Richmond (Varmd)
Richmond (Varmd) (2,148 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 8.0

Richmond (Varmd) has more employees than the Courier Services Except by Air median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 8.0. 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
2018 4.8 3.0 67 3 0
2017 2.5 1.9 31 4 0
2016 3.8 2.6 52 4 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

492110 · VA · Richmond

6,679 Courier Services Except by Air 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 Concord 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR INI16 - 16TH STREET 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bio Test Medical, Inc. 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Amazon.com Services LLC - HPB2 3.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Eastern Virginia Medical School 2,120 FTE
STATE-SIZE BWXT Nuclear Operations Group, Inc. - Lynchburg 2,180 FTE
STATE-SIZE BWXT NOG Lynchburg 2,200 FTE
STATE-SIZE VARMD - RICHMOND 2,201 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 Miami Gateway (Flimi) 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR The Whittier Pavilion 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Chase Brass and Copper Company, LLC. 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Hampton Inn Carol Stream 3.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Phoenix Hub (Azpho) 2,151 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stryker 2,151 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2904-ASM-TX 2,151 FTE
NAT-SIZE Northwestern Medicine Regional Medical Group 2,151 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: 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.