Industrial supplies, disposable plastics, paper, merchant wholesalers · Virginia

Unique Industries - Blairs

Name: Unique Industries - Blairs Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Blairs, VA · ~495 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

C
Average Safety Record: 2.1
Avg TCR: 2.2
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Unique Industries - Blairs runs at 97% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Industrial supplies, disposable plastics, paper, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade C.

Unique Industries - Blairs: 2.1 TCR = 97% of Industrial supplies, disposable plastics, paper, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Unique Industries - Blairs safety composite

Unique Industries - Blairs scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 67% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 46%), 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).

56/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 2.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% of industry peers
DART rate: D 2.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Unique Industries - Blairs: 1.9 → 2.6 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 3.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.98× in 2023

Unique Industries - Blairs's TCR rose 0.6 from 1.9 in 2016 to 2.6 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 3.5 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.98× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424130 · Blairs, VA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.1 · 97% of ind

DART 2.1 DART
RANK #2/4
PHOTO Bunzl Processor Dist…
BOOK 7y book
INJ 69 inj
SIZE ~495 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bunzl Processor Distribution, LLC (DBA BPD Omaha) (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Unique Industries - Blairs averages 2.1 TCR (97% of the Industrial supplies, disposable plastics, paper, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

Unique Industries - Blairs TCR series: 2016=1.9 · 2017=1 · 2018=1.6 · 2019=2.3 · 2020=1.9 · 2022=3.5 · 2023=2.6 · BLS 2.2

Where Unique Industries - Blairs falls in its industry

290 Industrial supplies, disposabl establishments

Safer than 67% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.9.

Grade C

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 4 Industrial supplies, disposabl employers in Virginia.

Unique Industries - Blairs (495 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 2.9

Unique Industries - Blairs has more employees than the Industrial supplies, disposable plastics median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.9. 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
2023	2.6	2.1	11
2022	3.5	2.9	16
2020	1.9	1.6	8
2019	2.3	1.9	11
2018	1.6	1.4	8
2017	1.0	0.6	5
2016	1.9	1.8	10

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424130 · VA · Blairs

290 Industrial supplies, disposable plastics, paper, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Bunzl Processor Distribution, LLC (DBA BPD Omaha)	OMAHA, NE	2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR	5841 San Antonio TX	SAN ANTONIO, TX	2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR	GENERAL PAPER GOODS CO/GENFLEX LABELING SOLUTIONS	ATLANTA, GA	2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Converpack Inc	MEDLY, FL	2.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Virginia Manufacturing Site	WINCHESTER	495 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Lake Manassas	GAINESVILLE	495 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Bridgewater Complex	BRIDGEWATER	496 FTE
STATE-SIZE	1545 Crossways Blvd	CHESAPEAKE	496 FTE
CITY-NEAR	WoodWick Distribution	Blairs	140 FTE
NAT-TCR	New Image Dental Laboratory Inc.	Morrow, GA	2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR	Supplyone Albuquerque	Albuquerque, NM	2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR	ECS- Americus Ga.	Americus, GA	2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR	New Harquahala Generating Company	Tonopah, AZ	2.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Nihon Kohden America llc	Irvine, CA	495 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Deepwell Energy Services LLC.	Columbia, MS	495 FTE
NAT-SIZE	One Liberty Plaza	New York, NY	495 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Wheeler Clinic	Plainville, CT	495 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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