Sheriffs' offices (except court functions only) · Virginia

Sheriff's Office

Colonial Heights, VA · ~22 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.8
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sheriff's Office runs at 213% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Sheriffs' offices (except court functions only) workplace, earning a grade F.

Sheriff's Office: 6.8 TCR = 213% of Sheriffs' offices (except court functions only) BLS 3.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sheriff's Office safety composite

Sheriff's Office scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 66% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 38%), 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

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 6.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 66% of industry peers

DART rate
D 5.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

−2.7

2018→2019

Sheriff's Office injury rate improved

Sheriff's Office's TCR fell 2.7 from 8.2 in 2018 to 5.5 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 8.2 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.8× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=8.2 · 2019=5.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922120 · Colonial Heights, VA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.8 · 213% of ind

  • DART 5.5 DART
  • RANK #15/39
  • PHOTO Law Enforcement Center
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~22 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Law Enforcement Center (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sheriff's Office in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sheriff's Office averages 6.8 TCR (213% of the Sheriffs' offices (except court functions only) BLS benchmark).

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

Sheriff's Office TCR series: 2018=8.2 · 2019=5.5 · BLS 3.2

Where Sheriff's Office falls in its industry

716 Sheriffs' offices (except cour establishments

Safer than 66% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #15 safest of 39 Sheriffs' offices (except cour employers in Virginia.

Sheriff's Office (22 employees, TCR 6.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 9.5 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 0200400600 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Sheriff's Office
Sheriff's Office (22 employees, TCR 6.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 9.5

Sheriff's Office has fewer employees than the Sheriffs' offices (except court function median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 9.5. 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
2019 5.5 5.5 1 0 0
2018 8.2 8.2 0 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922120 · VA · Colonial Heights

716 Sheriffs' offices (except court functions only) 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 Law Enforcement Center 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sheriffs Office 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sheriff 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Police - Community Services 6.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Eastville Farm 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE BIRDSONG PEANUTS SOUTHAMPTON 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE L&D Well Service Inc 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Colonial Energy, Inc. 22 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 Owens & Minor Austin 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Des Moines Goodwill 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 6400-Swy 0027 0502 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 6400-Swy 0027 3317 6.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Plant 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE MODA Tower YMCA Child Development Center 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Southeast YMCA Child Development Center 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Art Van Kildeer 22 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: 2019, 2018. 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.