Awnings, rigid plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing · Virginia

Strongwell-Highlands Division

Abingdon, VA · ~33 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Strongwell-Highlands Division runs at 107% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Awnings, rigid plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Strongwell-Highlands Division: 3.5 TCR = 107% of Awnings, rigid plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Strongwell-Highlands Division safety composite

Strongwell-Highlands Division scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 34%), 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

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% 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

Strongwell-Highlands Division: 0.0 → 2.9 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 11.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.81× in 2024

Strongwell-Highlands Division's TCR rose 2.9 from 0.0 in 2021 to 2.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 11.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.81× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326199 · Abingdon, VA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.5 · 107% of ind

  • DART 2.9 DART
  • RANK #19/34
  • PHOTO Nordon Inc.
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~33 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Nordon Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Strongwell-Highlands Division in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Strongwell-Highlands Division averages 3.5 TCR (107% of the Awnings, rigid plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Strongwell-Highlands Division TCR series: 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=11.3 · 2024=2.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Strongwell-Highlands Division falls in its industry

2,838 Awnings, rigid plastics or fib establishments

Safer than 50% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #19 safest of 34 Awnings, rigid plastics or fib employers in Virginia.

Strongwell-Highlands Division (33 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Strongwell-Highlands Division
Strongwell-Highlands Division (33 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Strongwell-Highlands Division has fewer employees than the Awnings, rigid plastics or fiberglass, m median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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
2024 2.9 2.9 1 0 0
2023 11.3 2.8 3 1 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326199 · VA · Abingdon

2,838 Awnings, rigid plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 46 employers in Abingdon, 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 Nordon Inc. 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Clearwater 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Commercial Plastics Kenosha LLC 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kincaid Plastics Inc. 3.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Commonwealth Gin 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE ALTAVISTA POWER STATION 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE NAES : Mecklenburg 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Orsted - Charlottesville 33 FTE
CITY-NEAR Food City Distribution Center 845 FTE
CITY-NEAR JOHNSTON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL 658 FTE
CITY-NEAR Food City Support Center 387 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 154 335 FTE
NAT-TCR Waterberry Lodging Company 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Leonardo DRS - Sidman Facility 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Mid-Atlantic Utilities, Inc. 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR United Mechanical, LLC 3.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE 5099 - GA Rockdale County 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Catalina Foothills 12745 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hilton Garden Inn Arcadia/Pasadena 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Trenchtech Inc 33 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.