Spot removers (except laundry presoaks) manufacturing · Virginia

Spectrum Brands - Blacksburg, VA

Blacksburg, VA · ~296 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Spectrum Brands - Blacksburg, VA runs at 97% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Spot removers (except laundry presoaks) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Spectrum Brands - Blacksburg, VA: 3.2 TCR = 97% of Spot removers (except laundry presoaks) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Spectrum Brands - Blacksburg, VA safety composite

Spectrum Brands - Blacksburg, VA scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 47%), 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

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% 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

−1.8

2022→2023

Spectrum Brands - Blacksburg, VA injury rate improved

Spectrum Brands - Blacksburg, VA's TCR fell 1.8 from 4.1 in 2022 to 2.3 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 4.1 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.36× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=4.1 · 2023=2.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325612 · Blacksburg, VA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.2 · 97% of ind

  • DART 1.1 DART
  • RANK #4/4
  • PHOTO KIK VA LLC
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~296 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: KIK VA LLC (0.1 TCR gap)

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Spectrum Brands - Blacksburg, VA in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Spectrum Brands - Blacksburg, VA averages 3.2 TCR (97% of the Spot removers (except laundry presoaks) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Spectrum Brands - Blacksburg, VA TCR series: 2022=4.1 · 2023=2.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Spectrum Brands - Blacksburg, VA falls in its industry

143 Spot removers (except laundry establishments

Safer than 47% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 4 Spot removers (except laundry employers in Virginia.

Spectrum Brands - Blacksburg, VA (296 employees, TCR 3.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 2.9 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 05001,0001,5002,0002,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Spectrum Brands - Blacksburg, VA
Spectrum Brands - Blacksburg, VA (296 employees, TCR 3.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 2.9

Spectrum Brands - Blacksburg, VA has more employees than the Spot removers (except laundry presoaks) median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.9. 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
2023 2.3 1.1 6 0 0
2022 4.1 3.7 11 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325612 · VA · Blacksburg

143 Spot removers (except laundry presoaks) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 45 employers in Blacksburg, 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 KIK VA LLC 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR State Cleaning 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR KIK (Virginia)LLC 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wesmar Company Inc. 3.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE W. M. Jordan Company 296 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 2761 296 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 2337 296 FTE
STATE-SIZE YFT-Bristow (HQ) 296 FTE
CITY-NEAR New River Valley Community Services 780 FTE
CITY-NEAR Moog, Inc - Blacksburg Central 691 FTE
CITY-NEAR LewisGale Hospital Mongomery 525 FTE
CITY-NEAR Federal Mogul Blacksburg 518 FTE
NAT-TCR Smith Masonry Inc 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Indian River Transport 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Clausen Electric Inc 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Daysh Developments Inc. 3.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ajax Turner Company, Incorporated 296 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hastings College - Hastings, NE 296 FTE
NAT-SIZE West Liberty Foods 296 FTE
NAT-SIZE Granger Construction 296 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, 2022. 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.