Belt conveyor systems manufacturing · Virginia

Sentry Equipment & Erectors Inc.

Forest, VA · ~218 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sentry Equipment & Erectors Inc. runs at 92% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Belt conveyor systems manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Sentry Equipment & Erectors Inc.: 3.0 TCR = 92% of Belt conveyor systems manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sentry Equipment & Erectors Inc. safety composite

Sentry Equipment & Erectors Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 59% 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

56/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.8

2016→2022

Sentry Equipment & Erectors Inc. injury rate improved

Sentry Equipment & Erectors Inc.'s TCR fell 2.8 from 2.8 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2018 at 4.8 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=2.8 · 2017=4.3 · 2018=4.8 · 2019=2.8 · 2020=1.7 · 2021=4.7 · 2022=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333922 · Forest, VA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.0 · 92% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #4/7
  • PHOTO BWCS - Romeoville
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 60 inj
  • SIZE ~218 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: BWCS - Romeoville (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sentry Equipment & Erectors Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sentry Equipment & Erectors Inc. averages 3.0 TCR (92% of the Belt conveyor systems manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Sentry Equipment & Erectors Inc. TCR series: 2016=2.8 · 2017=4.3 · 2018=4.8 · 2019=2.8 · 2020=1.7 · 2021=4.7 · 2022=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Sentry Equipment & Erectors Inc. falls in its industry

361 Belt conveyor systems manufact establishments

Safer than 57% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 7 Belt conveyor systems manufact employers in Virginia.

Sentry Equipment & Erectors Inc. (218 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 024681012 Average employees Total Case Rate Sentry Equipment & Erectors Inc.
Sentry Equipment & Erectors Inc. (218 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Sentry Equipment & Erectors Inc. has more employees than the Belt conveyor systems manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 0.0 0.0 9 0 0
2021 4.7 1.4 13 0 0
2020 1.7 1.3 4 0 0
2019 2.8 1.6 7 0 0
2018 4.8 3.2 12 0 0
2017 4.3 1.7 10 0 0
2016 2.8 0.9 5 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333922 · VA · Forest

361 Belt conveyor systems manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 37 employers in Forest, 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 BWCS - Romeoville 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR OPEX Corp. Site 3 Plano 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Midwest Automation, Inc. 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Yukon Mfg. Corp. - a div. of Nor-Tech Industrial Corp. 3.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Thompson Construction Group, Inc. - Phillip Morris 218 FTE
STATE-SIZE Damuth Services, Inc. 218 FTE
STATE-SIZE JRC Mechanical 218 FTE
STATE-SIZE Current Lighting 218 FTE
CITY-NEAR Newell Home Fragrance WoodWick 254 FTE
CITY-NEAR WoodWick Manufacturing 245 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sentry 232 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hanwha Azdel Inc. 192 FTE
NAT-TCR Bergey's Buick GMC 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Acadia 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Plant 5- Lake Air 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR CHOICES 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Condotte America LLC. 218 FTE
NAT-SIZE Flowers Baking Company Of Birmingham 218 FTE
NAT-SIZE Old Sturbridge, Inc 218 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wolfenson Houston 218 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.