Drives, high-speed industrial (except hydrostatic), manufacturing · Virginia

Sumitomo Machinery Corp of America Chesapeake

Chesapeake, VA · ~355 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sumitomo Machinery Corp of America Chesapeake runs at 72% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Drives, high-speed industrial (except hydrostatic), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Sumitomo Machinery Corp of America Chesapeake: 2.4 TCR = 72% of Drives, high-speed industrial (except hydrostatic), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sumitomo Machinery Corp of America Chesapeake safety composite

Sumitomo Machinery Corp of America Chesapeake scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 60% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 41%), 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

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% 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

−0.5

2022→2024

Sumitomo Machinery Corp of America Chesapeake injury rate improved

Sumitomo Machinery Corp of America Chesapeake's TCR fell 0.5 from 2.4 in 2022 to 2.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 2.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.71× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=2.4 · 2023=2.7 · 2024=2.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333612 · Chesapeake, VA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.4 · 72% of ind

  • DART 1.7 DART
  • RANK #4/4
  • PHOTO Brad Foote Gearing P…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~355 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Brad Foote Gearing Pittsburgh (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sumitomo Machinery Corp of America Chesapeake in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sumitomo Machinery Corp of America Chesapeake averages 2.4 TCR (72% of the Drives, high-speed industrial (except hydrostatic), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Sumitomo Machinery Corp of America Chesapeake TCR series: 2022=2.4 · 2023=2.7 · 2024=2 · BLS 3.3

Where Sumitomo Machinery Corp of America Chesapeake falls in its industry

106 Drives, high-speed industrial establishments

Safer than 60% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

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 Drives, high-speed industrial employers in Virginia.

Sumitomo Machinery Corp of America Chesapeake (355 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 3.1 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Sumitomo Machinery Corp of America Chesapeake
Sumitomo Machinery Corp of America Chesapeake (355 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 3.1

Sumitomo Machinery Corp of America Chesapeake has more employees than the Drives, high-speed industrial (except hy median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.1. 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 2.0 1.7 6 1 0
2023 2.7 1.5 7 2 0
2022 2.4 2.4 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333612 · VA · Chesapeake

106 Drives, high-speed industrial (except hydrostatic), manufacturing 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 · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Brad Foote Gearing Pittsburgh 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Formsprag LLC 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sumitomo Machinery Corp of America Verona 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lenze Americas, Inc. 2.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Branscome Operating LLC 355 FTE
STATE-SIZE Suffolk MZB-USA 355 FTE
STATE-SIZE 517717-ROANOKE VA P&DC 355 FTE
STATE-SIZE L3Harris Herndon 355 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 Aberdeen Store 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Lp De 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR OmniSource, LLC. - Johnson City Main 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Dart Container Leola Bead 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Houston Distribution Center 355 FTE
NAT-SIZE TCW inc 355 FTE
NAT-SIZE Progressive Residential Services of Michigan 355 FTE
NAT-SIZE Telephonics 815 Farmingdale 355 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.