Ductile iron foundries · Virginia

U.S. Pipe and Foundry

Lynchburg, VA · ~258 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore Editorial, Employer Workplace Safety Editorial Team

B
Good Safety Record: 2.6
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

The verdict

U.S. Pipe and Foundry runs at 79% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Ductile iron foundries workplace, earning a grade B.

B
Good Safety Record: 2.6
avg TCR · per 100 workers: 3.3
industry benchmark (BLS): 15
recordable injuries tracked

Grade compares U.S. Pipe and Foundry's OSHA Total Case Rate to the BLS industry benchmark across 2 years of Form 300A filings (2016–2024). This reflects reported recordable injuries, not an independent safety inspection -- underreporting is a known limitation of employer self-recordkeeping.

Injury rate over time

U.S. Pipe and Foundry's yearly Total Case Rate, against the 3.3 industry benchmark.

Total Case Rate (recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers), OSHA ITA Form 300A. Industry benchmark: BLS IIF, NAICS 331511.

Where U.S. Pipe and Foundry falls in its industry

281 Ductile iron foundries establishments

Safer than 85% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 7.2.

Grade B

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 5 Ductile iron foundries employers in Virginia.

U.S. Pipe and Foundry has an average TCR of 2.6, which is 79% of the industry average (3.3) for Ductile iron foundries. This is better than average.

The letter grade is a transparent derived index PlainSafetyScore computes from public OSHA ITA and BLS benchmark data, not an official OSHA rating or safety certification. Full formula and thresholds: Methodology.

Trend analysis for U.S. Pipe and Foundry

Between 2018 and 2019, U.S. Pipe and Foundry's Total Case Rate worsened from 1.8 to 3.4 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers, a 92% increase across 1 year of OSHA reporting.

The safest year on record was 2018, at a TCR of 1.8, while 2019 saw the highest rate, at 3.4, a spread of 1.6 points between the best and worst reporting years. That's a wide swing relative to the establishment's overall rate, worth checking the year-by-year table below for whether a single severe year is driving the average, rather than a sustained trend.

Summed across those 2 reporting years, U.S. Pipe and Foundry recorded 15 total injuries and illnesses, with no fatalities reported in any of those years. Readers comparing establishments should weigh the 2-year trend above alongside establishment size, since a larger workforce naturally accumulates more raw incidents even at a lower per-100-worker rate.

Verify This Employer with OSHA

All injury, illness, and fatality figures on this page are sourced from U.S. Pipe and Foundry's own mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source, name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.

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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 331511 - Ductile iron foundries.

DART Rate, Transparent Calculation (2019)

DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.

7 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 581,616 hours worked = 2.41 DART

Methodology: 29 CFR 1904, OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping

Cross-Validating Context, Establishment vs Industry vs State

Benchmark	TCR	Source
U.S. Pipe and Foundry (this establishment)	2.62	OSHA ITA Form 300A, 2-year avg
Gray iron foundries industry avg	3.30	BLS IIF, NAICS 331511
Virginia state avg (all industries)	4.16	OSHA ITA, state-level rollup

Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program

Reportable Incident Timeline

Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by U.S. Pipe and Foundry to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.

2019: 10 reportable incidents · 9 injuries, 1 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
2018: 6 reportable incidents · 6 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)

Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) - inspection case-number records

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year	TCR	DART	Injuries	Illnesses	Fatalities
2019	3.4	2.4	9	1	0
2018	1.8	0.3	6	0	0

What this grade means for you

Use this grade as a relative read on U.S. Pipe and Foundry's reported OSHA injury record, strong versus its Ductile iron foundries peers, but not a guarantee about any single site today.

At 79% of the Ductile iron foundries benchmark, U.S. Pipe and Foundry reports fewer injuries than typical peers, still worth asking how safety is managed day to day. Know your rights
Judge this record against the wider Ductile iron foundries sector, where injury rates vary widely, before comparing it in isolation. See the industry
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Safety grades reflect employers' self-reported OSHA Form 300A filings from 2016 to 2024 and can lag current conditions. A grade is not a guarantee that any specific workplace is safe or unsafe today. See our methodology and disclaimer.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is U.S. Pipe and Foundry's safety grade?

U.S. Pipe and Foundry has a safety grade of B (Good Safety Record). This grade is based on their average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 2.6 compared to the BLS industry benchmark of 3.3 for Ductile iron foundries.

How many injuries has U.S. Pipe and Foundry reported?

U.S. Pipe and Foundry has reported 15 total injuries and 0 fatalities across 2 years of OSHA data (2019, 2018). This data comes from mandatory OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA) reports.

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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: 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.