Sheriffs' offices (except court functions only) · Virginia

Sheriff's Office

Suffolk, VA · ~39 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.7
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sheriff's Office runs at 116% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Sheriffs' offices (except court functions only) workplace, earning a grade C.

Sheriff's Office: 3.7 TCR = 116% 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 89% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 45%), 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

65/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 3.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 89% of industry peers

DART rate
D 4.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Sheriff's Office: 2.6 → 4.8 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 4.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.3× in 2023

Sheriff's Office's TCR rose 2.2 from 2.6 in 2018 to 4.8 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.3× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922120 · Suffolk, VA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.7 · 116% of ind

  • DART 4.8 DART
  • RANK #6/39
  • PHOTO Police Department
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~39 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Police Department (0.1 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 3.7 TCR (116% 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=2.6 · 2023=4.8 · BLS 3.2

Where Sheriff's Office falls in its industry

716 Sheriffs' offices (except cour establishments

Safer than 89% 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 #6 safest of 39 Sheriffs' offices (except cour employers in Virginia.

Sheriff's Office (39 employees, TCR 3.7) 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 (39 employees, TCR 3.7) 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
2023 4.8 4.8 2 0 0
2018 2.6 2.6 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922120 · VA · Suffolk

716 Sheriffs' offices (except court functions only) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 161 employers in Suffolk, 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 Police Department 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Schererville Police Department 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR District 2 (Police) 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cedar County Sheriff's Office 3.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Select Genetics VA Hatch 60 61 62 64 65 66, 950-VA 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Utilities - Sewerage Systems 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE D.D. Kerns Construction Company, Inc. 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE DWATTS Construction LLC 39 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - ORF3 3,196 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3841 - UDC-Suffolk 1,700 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3841 - Suffolk UDC 1,478 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sentara Obici Hospital 1,384 FTE
NAT-TCR RK-066-Coschocton ( RK-066 ) 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR USM Store #928 (ALBERTSONS MARKET) 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR FineLine Technologies, Inc. 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Bodines Casino 3.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE The Lubrizol Corporation 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Infinity Specialty Tapes 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Skyworks LLC -- Toledo branch 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Horizon Mechanical Solutions 39 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: 2023, 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.