Knitting machinery manufacturing · Virginia

Ruffin Mill

Colonial Heights, VA · ~25 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ruffin Mill runs at 175% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Knitting machinery manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Ruffin Mill: 5.8 TCR = 175% of Knitting machinery manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ruffin Mill safety composite

Ruffin Mill scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 6%), 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).

F

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% 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

Ruffin Mill: 4.7 → 5.4 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 8.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.93× in 2022

Ruffin Mill's TCR rose 0.7 from 4.7 in 2017 to 5.4 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2018 at 8.4 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.93× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333249 · Colonial Heights, VA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.8 · 175% of ind

  • DART 5.4 DART
  • RANK #7/8
  • PHOTO Pearl Technologies I…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~25 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Pearl Technologies Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ruffin Mill in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ruffin Mill averages 5.8 TCR (175% of the Knitting machinery manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Ruffin Mill TCR series: 2017=4.7 · 2018=8.4 · 2019=4.1 · 2020=6.3 · 2022=5.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Ruffin Mill falls in its industry

448 Knitting machinery manufacturi establishments

Safer than 21% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 8 Knitting machinery manufacturi employers in Virginia.

Ruffin Mill (25 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 0200400600800 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Ruffin Mill
Ruffin Mill (25 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Ruffin Mill has fewer employees than the Knitting machinery manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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
2022 5.4 5.4 1 0 0
2020 6.3 0.0 2 0 0
2019 4.1 0.0 0 1 0
2018 8.4 0.0 2 0 0
2017 4.7 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333249 · VA · Colonial Heights

448 Knitting machinery manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 71 employers in Colonial Heights, 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 Pearl Technologies Inc. 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bristol 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Magnum Plastics Inc 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR HF rubber machinery 5.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bowman Orchards, LLc 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Circle W Farms II, LLC 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Manufacturing Plant 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bowman Fruit Sales LLC 25 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hillphoenix Plant 1 767 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1424 434 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1424 402 FTE
CITY-NEAR Colonial Heights Public Schools 366 FTE
NAT-TCR 4765-AUSCX0UPS 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Vidant Chowan Hospital 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Sharp Coronado Hospital - Food 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Lubbock Isd-Maintenance 5.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Madison Wi (Bartillon Dr) Depot 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bloomington Ca Depot 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Daniels Wv Depot 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Oshkosh Wi Depot 25 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: 2022, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.