Pipe tobacco, prepared, manufacturing · Virginia

Sutliff Tobacco Company

Richmond, VA · ~37 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sutliff Tobacco Company runs at 202% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Pipe tobacco, prepared, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Sutliff Tobacco Company: 6.7 TCR = 202% of Pipe tobacco, prepared, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sutliff Tobacco Company safety composite

Sutliff Tobacco Company scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 16%), 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).

F

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

−6.2

2022→2023

Sutliff Tobacco Company injury rate improved

Sutliff Tobacco Company's TCR fell 6.2 from 9.7 in 2022 to 3.6 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 9.7 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.54× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=9.7 · 2023=3.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 312230 · Richmond, VA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.7 · 202% of ind

  • DART 3.6 DART
  • RANK #5/5
  • PHOTO Lake Erie Tobacco Co…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~37 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Lake Erie Tobacco Company (0.1 TCR gap)

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Sutliff Tobacco Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sutliff Tobacco Company averages 6.7 TCR (202% of the Pipe tobacco, prepared, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Sutliff Tobacco Company TCR series: 2022=9.7 · 2023=3.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Sutliff Tobacco Company falls in its industry

53 Pipe tobacco, prepared, manufa establishments

Safer than 19% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 5 Pipe tobacco, prepared, manufa employers in Virginia.

Sutliff Tobacco Company (37 employees, TCR 6.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 153 employees and a TCR of 2.1 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 05001,0001,5002,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Sutliff Tobacco Company
Sutliff Tobacco Company (37 employees, TCR 6.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 153 employees and a TCR of 2.1

Sutliff Tobacco Company has fewer employees than the Pipe tobacco, prepared, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.1. 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
2023 3.6 3.6 1 0 0
2022 9.7 4.9 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

312230 · VA · Richmond

53 Pipe tobacco, prepared, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 939 employers in Richmond, 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 Lake Erie Tobacco Company 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Altadis USA Inc. 8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fumari Inc 9.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Park 500 3.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Silver Creek Orchards, Inc. 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Robert S. Coleman Lumber Co., Inc 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pulaski Svc Ctr 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Central District 37 FTE
CITY-NEAR VCU Health System 14,536 FTE
CITY-NEAR Virginia Commonwealth University 11,826 FTE
CITY-NEAR VCU 5,271 FTE
CITY-NEAR CJW Medical Center 3,259 FTE
NAT-TCR Corona Building 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Square Cow Moovers--Central 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Palisades Ranch 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Orange Research Inc 6.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Prairie City 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - HLO1 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Burgener Contract Carriers, Ltd 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE United Wire Company Inc 37 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.