Potato chips manufacturing · Virginia

Shearer's Foods - BVA

Bristol, VA · ~270 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
2.0
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Shearer's Foods - BVA runs at 48% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Potato chips manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Shearer's Foods - BVA: 2.0 TCR = 48% of Potato chips manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Shearer's Foods - BVA safety composite

Shearer's Foods - BVA scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 78% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

69/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.5

2020→2024

Shearer's Foods - BVA injury rate improved

Shearer's Foods - BVA's TCR fell 0.5 from 2.2 in 2020 to 1.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 2.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.43× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=2.2 · 2024=1.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311919 · Bristol, VA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 2.0 · 48% of ind

  • DART 0.8 DART
  • RANK #3/4
  • PHOTO Shearer's Foods - SDC
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~270 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Shearer's Foods - SDC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Shearer's Foods - BVA in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Shearer's Foods - BVA averages 2.0 TCR (48% of the Potato chips manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Shearer's Foods - BVA TCR series: 2020=2.2 · 2024=1.7 · BLS 4.1

Where Shearer's Foods - BVA falls in its industry

253 Potato chips manufacturing establishments

Safer than 78% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 4 Potato chips manufacturing employers in Virginia.

Shearer's Foods - BVA (270 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 160 employees and a TCR of 3.4 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Shearer's Foods - BVA
Shearer's Foods - BVA (270 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 160 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Shearer's Foods - BVA has more employees than the Potato chips manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.4. 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 1.7 0.8 4 0 0
2020 2.2 1.1 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311919 · VA · Bristol

253 Potato chips manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 54 employers in Bristol, 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 Shearer's Foods - SDC 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Snyder's Lance Inc. 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR PERRY PLANT 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR PULASKI PLANT 2.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Masco Cabinetry 270 FTE
STATE-SIZE IMS Gear VA 270 FTE
STATE-SIZE 0227 - NEWINGTON VA WHSE 270 FTE
STATE-SIZE NPL East LLC - Virginia 269 FTE
CITY-NEAR CITY OF BRISTOL VIRGINIA 340 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2089 338 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2089 337 FTE
CITY-NEAR VABRI - BRISTOL 332 FTE
NAT-TCR Kyodo America Industries Co., LTD 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 21 Great Hollow 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Sandersville IGA #656 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Marion General Hospital 2.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Getty Images NY 270 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sinn Farms, Inc 270 FTE
NAT-SIZE R & R Framing, Inc. 270 FTE
NAT-SIZE 10547 New Dublin 270 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, 2020. 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.