Pet food, dog and cat, manufacturing · Virginia

Sunshine Mills Halifax, VA

Halifax, VA · ~183 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.4
Avg TCR
3.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sunshine Mills Halifax, VA runs at 88% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Pet food, dog and cat, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Sunshine Mills Halifax, VA: 3.4 TCR = 88% of Pet food, dog and cat, manufacturing BLS 3.9 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sunshine Mills Halifax, VA safety composite

Sunshine Mills Halifax, VA scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 58% 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

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% 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%).

Sunshine Mills Halifax, VA held a steady TCR band

Sunshine Mills Halifax, VA's TCR held near 0.3 from 2.7 in 2016 to 2.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 7.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.35× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=2.7 · 2017=3.8 · 2018=7.6 · 2019=4.7 · 2020=2.4 · 2021=1.7 · 2022=4.4 · 2023=1.3 · 2024=2.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311111 · Halifax, VA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.4 · 88% of ind

  • DART 1.2 DART
  • RANK P47
  • PHOTO RFT
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 54 inj
  • SIZE ~183 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: RFT (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sunshine Mills Halifax, VA in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sunshine Mills Halifax, VA averages 3.4 TCR (88% of the Pet food, dog and cat, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Sunshine Mills Halifax, VA TCR series: 2016=2.7 · 2017=3.8 · 2018=7.6 · 2019=4.7 · 2020=2.4 · 2021=1.7 · 2022=4.4 · 2023=1.3 · 2024=2.4 · BLS 3.9

Where Sunshine Mills Halifax, VA falls in its industry

302 Pet food, dog and cat, manufac establishments

Safer than 47% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Sunshine Mills Halifax, VA (183 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 103 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 0200400600 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Sunshine Mills Halifax, VA
Sunshine Mills Halifax, VA (183 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 103 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Sunshine Mills Halifax, VA has more employees than the Pet food, dog and cat, manufacturing 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
2024 2.4 1.2 6 0 0
2023 1.3 1.3 3 0 0
2022 4.4 3.5 9 1 0
2021 1.7 1.3 2 2 0
2020 2.4 2.4 3 2 0
2019 4.7 4.1 8 1 0
2018 7.6 5.4 12 2 0
2017 3.8 2.2 7 0 0
2016 2.7 2.7 4 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311111 · VA · Halifax

302 Pet food, dog and cat, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 6 employers in Halifax, 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 RFT 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR WIT 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR G&H Pets, LLC 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Garmon Corp. 3.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Richardson-Wayland Electrical Company LLC 183 FTE
STATE-SIZE Diverse Masonry Corporation 183 FTE
STATE-SIZE BERRYWAVA 183 FTE
STATE-SIZE Low Moor Converting 183 FTE
CITY-NEAR Huber Engineered Woods, LLC, Crystal Hill 159 FTE
CITY-NEAR Halifax County Adult Detention Center 47 FTE
CITY-NEAR SODEXO AT HALIFAX COUNTY SCHOOLS VA 46 FTE
CITY-NEAR SODEXO AT HALIFAX COUNTY SCHOOLS 20 FTE
NAT-TCR Perko, Inc. 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR North Point 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Luse Environmental Services 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Worldwide Technologies 3.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Harris Rochester, Inc. 183 FTE
NAT-SIZE Talbert Manufacturing, Inc. 183 FTE
NAT-SIZE Heggem-Lundquist 183 FTE
NAT-SIZE North East 183 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, 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.