Printing inks manufacturing · Virginia

Sun Chemical Colonial Heights

Colonial Heights, VA · ~27 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sun Chemical Colonial Heights runs at 121% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Printing inks manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Sun Chemical Colonial Heights: 4.0 TCR = 121% of Printing inks manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sun Chemical Colonial Heights safety composite

Sun Chemical Colonial Heights scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 78% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 24%), 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

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% 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

−7.3

2016→2024

Sun Chemical Colonial Heights injury rate improved

Sun Chemical Colonial Heights's TCR fell 7.3 from 7.3 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 13.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=7.3 · 2017=0.0 · 2018=7.4 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=4.1 · 2022=13.1 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325910 · Colonial Heights, VA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.0 · 121% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK P24
  • PHOTO INX International In…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~27 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: INX International Ink Co. (6800) (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sun Chemical Colonial Heights in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sun Chemical Colonial Heights averages 4.0 TCR (121% of the Printing inks manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Sun Chemical Colonial Heights TCR series: 2016=7.3 · 2017=0 · 2018=7.4 · 2019=0 · 2020=4.1 · 2022=13.1 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Sun Chemical Colonial Heights falls in its industry

111 Printing inks manufacturing establishments

Safer than 24% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Sun Chemical Colonial Heights (27 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 05001,0001,5002,000 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Sun Chemical Colonial Heights
Sun Chemical Colonial Heights (27 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Sun Chemical Colonial Heights has fewer employees than the Printing inks manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 13.1 13.1 3 0 0
2020 4.1 4.1 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 7.4 3.7 2 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 7.3 3.7 1 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325910 · VA · Colonial Heights

111 Printing inks manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 71 employers in Colonial Heights, 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 INX International Ink Co. (6800) 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR FLINT GROUP 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Armor 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR EFI, Inc. 3.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Temperanceville Hatchery 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Degesch America Weyers Cave 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Potomac Energy Center, LLC 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rocky Mount Ofc and Svc Ctr 27 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hillphoenix Plant 1 767 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1424 434 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1424 402 FTE
CITY-NEAR Colonial Heights Public Schools 366 FTE
NAT-TCR Kwik Trip Store Engineering 797 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Teddan Produce 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Green Plains Central City LLC 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Carson & Gray, Inc. 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE SECO Energy - Groveland 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE PME Cincinnati 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sawmill 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cohen Steel Supply, Inc. 27 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.