Industrial building (except warehouses) construction, general contractors · West Virginia

Swope Construction Co.

Bluefield, WV · ~63 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.6
Avg TCR
2.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Swope Construction Co. runs at 124% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Industrial building (except warehouses) construction, general contractors workplace, earning a grade D.

Swope Construction Co.: 3.6 TCR = 124% of Industrial building (except warehouses) construction, general contractors BLS 2.9 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Swope Construction Co. safety composite

Swope Construction Co. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 22%), 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

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% 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%).

TCR Δ

−9.0

2016→2023

Swope Construction Co. injury rate improved

Swope Construction Co.'s TCR fell 9.0 from 11.7 in 2016 to 2.7 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2016 at 11.7 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.76× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=11.7 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=2.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 236210 · Bluefield, WV ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 3.6 · 124% of ind

  • DART 2.7 DART
  • RANK P27
  • PHOTO True World Foods Det…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~63 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: True World Foods Detroit LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Swope Construction Co. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Swope Construction Co. averages 3.6 TCR (124% of the Industrial building (except warehouses) construction, general contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Swope Construction Co. TCR series: 2016=11.7 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=2.7 · BLS 2.9

Where Swope Construction Co. falls in its industry

924 Industrial building (except wa establishments

Safer than 27% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Swope Construction Co. (63 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 71 employees and a TCR of 1.6 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Swope Construction Co.
Swope Construction Co. (63 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 71 employees and a TCR of 1.6

Swope Construction Co. has fewer employees than the Industrial building (except warehouses) median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.6. 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 2.7 2.7 2 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 11.7 7.8 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

236210 · WV · Bluefield

924 Industrial building (except warehouses) construction, general contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 2,269 rated employers in West Virginia with headcount on file · 30 employers in Bluefield, WV · 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 True World Foods Detroit LLC 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR PCC Johnson City 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Core Concepts Inc. 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Salvajor Company 3.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Clearwater 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE Robey Excavating LLC 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE Infinity Electric & Service LLC 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE NIT 63 FTE
CITY-NEAR CSC Bluefield 396 FTE
CITY-NEAR PCH Behavioral Health Pavilion 111 FTE
CITY-NEAR PCH Bluefield Campus 101 FTE
CITY-NEAR Maxxim Rebuild Co., LLC dba Maxxim Manufacturing 100 FTE
NAT-TCR Reliable Construction Services 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Grandeur Fasteners, Inc. 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Wilson Farmers Cooperative 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Boss Laser, LLC 3.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Live Operations 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kozeny-Wagner, Inc. 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE Central Trucking, Inc IN 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE CityFlatsHotel Grand Rapids, LLC 63 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, 2021, 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.