Ductile iron foundries · Virginia

U.S. Pipe and Foundry

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

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

U.S. Pipe and Foundry: 2.6 TCR = 79% of Ductile iron foundries BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

U.S. Pipe and Foundry safety composite

U.S. Pipe and Foundry scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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).

C

68/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% 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%).

Rising injury rate

U.S. Pipe and Foundry: 1.8 → 3.4 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 3.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.92× in 2019

U.S. Pipe and Foundry's TCR rose 1.6 from 1.8 in 2018 to 3.4 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0.92× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331511 · Lynchburg, VA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.6 · 79% of ind

  • DART 2.4 DART
  • RANK #1/5
  • PHOTO St. CLoud Casting
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~258 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: St. CLoud Casting (0.1 TCR gap)

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U.S. Pipe and Foundry in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows U.S. Pipe and Foundry averages 2.6 TCR (79% of the Ductile iron foundries BLS benchmark).

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

U.S. Pipe and Foundry TCR series: 2018=1.8 · 2019=3.4 · BLS 3.3

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

272 Ductile iron foundries establishments

Safer than 86% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 7.2.

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 (258 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 112 employees and a TCR of 7.2 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate U.S. Pipe and Foundry
U.S. Pipe and Foundry (258 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 112 employees and a TCR of 7.2

U.S. Pipe and Foundry has more employees than the Ductile iron foundries median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 7.2. 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
2019 3.4 2.4 9 1 0
2018 1.8 0.3 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331511 · VA · Lynchburg

272 Ductile iron foundries employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 360 employers in Lynchburg, 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 St. CLoud Casting 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kohler Wisconsin Cast Iron 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Anvil International, Columbia Plant 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Grede II LLC 2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Southern Finishing - Plant 12 258 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hill Phoenix 258 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 2647 258 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 5731 258 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lynchburg General Hospital 2,596 FTE
CITY-NEAR BWXT NOG Lynchburg 2,200 FTE
CITY-NEAR BWXT Nuclear Operations Group, Inc. - Lynchburg 2,180 FTE
CITY-NEAR Centra Urgent Care Forest 1,283 FTE
NAT-TCR Michels Foundations- New Berlin 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 502 ~ Waukesha Pearce Industries CMD San Antonio, Tx 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Palmer-Donavin Delphos 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 42932 - Cranberry Fac 2.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Parks and Recreation 258 FTE
NAT-SIZE 646 - San Francisco 258 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brewery 258 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mesa Springs Behavioral Health Hospital 258 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: 2019, 2018. 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.