Mixing purchased fertilizer materials · Virginia

Southern States Chesapeake Warehouse

Chesapeake, VA · ~18 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Southern States Chesapeake Warehouse runs at 240% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Mixing purchased fertilizer materials workplace, earning a grade F.

Southern States Chesapeake Warehouse: 7.9 TCR = 240% of Mixing purchased fertilizer materials BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Southern States Chesapeake Warehouse safety composite

Southern States Chesapeake Warehouse scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 12%), 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

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Southern States Chesapeake Warehouse: 0.0 → 23.8 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 23.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2020

Southern States Chesapeake Warehouse's TCR rose 23.8 from 0.0 in 2017 to 23.8 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325314 · Chesapeake, VA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.9 · 240% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #5/5
  • PHOTO Perdue AgriRecycle LLC
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~18 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Perdue AgriRecycle LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Southern States Chesapeake Warehouse in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Southern States Chesapeake Warehouse averages 7.9 TCR (240% of the Mixing purchased fertilizer materials BLS benchmark).

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

Southern States Chesapeake Warehouse TCR series: 2017=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=23.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Southern States Chesapeake Warehouse falls in its industry

163 Mixing purchased fertilizer ma establishments

Safer than 12% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 5 Mixing purchased fertilizer ma employers in Virginia.

Southern States Chesapeake Warehouse (18 employees, TCR 7.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Southern States Chesapeake Warehouse
Southern States Chesapeake Warehouse (18 employees, TCR 7.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Southern States Chesapeake Warehouse has fewer employees than the Mixing purchased fertilizer materials median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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
2020 23.8 0.0 1 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

325314 · VA · Chesapeake

163 Mixing purchased fertilizer materials employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 434 employers in Chesapeake, VA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Perdue AgriRecycle LLC 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ohio Mulch Supply 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Keith Day Company Inc 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Valley Fertilizer & Chemical Co., Inc. 7.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE WVWA Carvins Cove Water Treatment Facility 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kidd's Restoration & Cleaning Services, Inc. 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2018123 - Compass True North Datacenter 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Monterey AHQ 18 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - ORF2 2,432 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chesapeake Regional Medical Center 2,059 FTE
CITY-NEAR QVC Chesapeake, Inc. 1,056 FTE
CITY-NEAR Crossways 931 FTE
NAT-TCR Courtyard Marriott-Sedona 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Amfoam Inc 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Scott Stone - Mebane 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Ashley Furniture - Leesport 7.9 TCR

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: 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.