Farm supply stores · West Virginia

Southern States Charles Town Service

Ranson, WV · ~20 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.7
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Southern States Charles Town Service runs at 51% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Farm supply stores workplace, earning a grade B.

Southern States Charles Town Service: 1.7 TCR = 51% of Farm supply stores BLS 3.4 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Southern States Charles Town Service safety composite

Southern States Charles Town Service scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 93% 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).

B

78/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 93% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% 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

Southern States Charles Town Service: 0.0 → 7.0 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 7.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2022

Southern States Charles Town Service's TCR rose 7.0 from 0.0 in 2017 to 7.0 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444220 · Ranson, WV AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.7 · 51% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/7
  • PHOTO World Outdoor Empori…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~20 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: World Outdoor Emporium STC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Southern States Charles Town Service in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Southern States Charles Town Service averages 1.7 TCR (51% of the Farm supply stores BLS benchmark).

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

Southern States Charles Town Service TCR series: 2017=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2022=7 · BLS 3.4

Where Southern States Charles Town Service falls in its industry

642 Farm supply stores establishments

Safer than 93% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to West Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 7 Farm supply stores employers in West Virginia.

Southern States Charles Town Service (20 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 5.9 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 050100150200 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Southern States Charles Town Service
Southern States Charles Town Service (20 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 5.9

Southern States Charles Town Service has fewer employees than the Farm supply stores median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.9. 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 7.0 0.0 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444220 · WV · Ranson

642 Farm supply stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 2,269 rated employers in West Virginia with headcount on file · 17 employers in Ranson, WV · 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 World Outdoor Emporium STC 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nelson Water Gardens & Nursery, Inc 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR FFH Services, Inc - Corporate 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Mill of Blackhorse 1.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE ELKINS SERVICE CENTER 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE CW STICKLEY INC 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE METRO MASONRY, INC. 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE BMEC, INC. 20 FTE
CITY-NEAR PNGI Charles Town Gaming, LLC dba Hollywood Casino at Charles Town Races 1,157 FTE
CITY-NEAR Jefferson Medical Center 334 FTE
CITY-NEAR UFP Ranson, LLC 134 FTE
CITY-NEAR 183 110 FTE
NAT-TCR Processing plant 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Windsor Mold Saline 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Multi Mechanical, Inc 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 1281 - Lincoln South 1.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Southern States Creedmoor Service 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Friends Helping Friends 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE R & R Pipeline INC 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Orem Construction 20 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, 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.