Trusses, wood roof or floor, manufacturing · Virginia

Van Metre Building and Strategic Engineering, L.L.C.

Fairfax, VA · ~99 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Van Metre Building and Strategic Engineering, L.L.C. runs at 188% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Trusses, wood roof or floor, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Van Metre Building and Strategic Engineering, L.L.C.: 6.2 TCR = 188% of Trusses, wood roof or floor, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Van Metre Building and Strategic Engineering, L.L.C. safety composite

Van Metre Building and Strategic Engineering, L.L.C. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 56% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 13%), 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).

D

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 6.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

Van Metre Building and Strategic Engineering, L.L.C.: 2.8 → 9.6 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 9.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.55× in 2017

Van Metre Building and Strategic Engineering, L.L.C.'s TCR rose 6.9 from 2.8 in 2016 to 9.6 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 1.55× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321214 · Fairfax, VA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.2 · 188% of ind

  • DART 9.6 DART
  • RANK #7/11
  • PHOTO Madera Component Sys…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~99 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Madera Component Systems, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Van Metre Building and Strategic Engineering, L.L.C. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Van Metre Building and Strategic Engineering, L.L.C. averages 6.2 TCR (188% of the Trusses, wood roof or floor, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Van Metre Building and Strategic Engineering, L.L.C. TCR series: 2016=2.8 · 2017=9.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Van Metre Building and Strategic Engineering, L.L.C. falls in its industry

421 Trusses, wood roof or floor, m establishments

Safer than 56% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 7.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 11 Trusses, wood roof or floor, m employers in Virginia.

Van Metre Building and Strategic Engineering, L.L.C. (99 employees, TCR 6.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 7.0 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 02004006008001,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Van Metre Building and Strategic Engineering, L.L.C.
Van Metre Building and Strategic Engineering, L.L.C. (99 employees, TCR 6.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 7.0

Van Metre Building and Strategic Engineering, L.L.C. has more employees than the Trusses, wood roof or floor, manufacturi median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 7.0. 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
2017 9.6 9.6 12 0 0
2016 2.8 1.4 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321214 · VA · Fairfax

421 Trusses, wood roof or floor, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 226 employers in Fairfax, 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 Madera Component Systems, Inc. 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR ufp Folkston LLC 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4302 - Holiday City Truss Plant 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ridgway Roof Truss Co Inc 6.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE LEO Construction Co. 99 FTE
STATE-SIZE Maddox Air & Electrical 99 FTE
STATE-SIZE Minton and Roberson Inc. 99 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mainland 99 FTE
CITY-NEAR Inova Health System 2,608 FTE
CITY-NEAR Inova Physician Group 2,539 FTE
CITY-NEAR Inova Fair Oaks Hospital 1,153 FTE
CITY-NEAR Northern Virginia Community College - Annandale 870 FTE
NAT-TCR Mykawa (Txmyk) 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Pennsylvania Truck Centers, Inc. 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR East Walpole Mill 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Cranberry Twp PA 6.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE N and R of Troy LLC 99 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kraemer Farms LLC 99 FTE
NAT-SIZE Columbia Distributing Bend 99 FTE
NAT-SIZE Times Supermarket - Kamehameha 99 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: 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.