Sheriffs' offices (except court functions only) · Virginia

Virginia Beach Sheriff's Office

Virginia Beach, VA · ~530 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.0
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Virginia Beach Sheriff's Office runs at 219% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Sheriffs' offices (except court functions only) workplace, earning a grade F.

Virginia Beach Sheriff's Office: 7.0 TCR = 219% of Sheriffs' offices (except court functions only) BLS 3.2 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Virginia Beach Sheriff's Office safety composite

Virginia Beach Sheriff's Office scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 65% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 4%), 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

38/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 7.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 4% 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

−3.6

2018→2023

Virginia Beach Sheriff's Office injury rate improved

Virginia Beach Sheriff's Office's TCR fell 3.6 from 10.0 in 2018 to 6.4 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2018 at 10.0 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.91× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=10.0 · 2019=5.6 · 2020=5.9 · 2021=7.0 · 2022=7.4 · 2023=6.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922120 · Virginia Beach, VA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 7.0 · 219% of ind

  • DART 6.4 DART
  • RANK #16/39
  • PHOTO Police Dept.
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 215 inj
  • SIZE ~530 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Police Dept. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Virginia Beach Sheriff's Office in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Virginia Beach Sheriff's Office averages 7.0 TCR (219% of the Sheriffs' offices (except court functions only) BLS benchmark).

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

Virginia Beach Sheriff's Office TCR series: 2018=10 · 2019=5.6 · 2020=5.9 · 2021=7 · 2022=7.4 · 2023=6.4 · BLS 3.2

Where Virginia Beach Sheriff's Office falls in its industry

716 Sheriffs' offices (except cour establishments

Safer than 65% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #16 safest of 39 Sheriffs' offices (except cour employers in Virginia.

Virginia Beach Sheriff's Office (530 employees, TCR 7.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 9.5 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 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Virginia Beach Sheriff's Office
Virginia Beach Sheriff's Office (530 employees, TCR 7.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 9.5

Virginia Beach Sheriff's Office has more employees than the Sheriffs' offices (except court function median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 9.5. 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 6.4 6.4 33 3 0
2022 7.4 7.4 32 9 0
2021 7.0 6.8 46 4 1
2020 5.9 5.4 31 5 0
2019 5.6 5.6 28 5 0
2018 10.0 9.5 45 15 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922120 · VA · Virginia Beach

716 Sheriffs' offices (except court functions only) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 486 employers in Virginia Beach, 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 Police Dept. 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sheriff's Department 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Benton County Sheriff's Office 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Township of Franklin Police 7.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Fire Protection 530 FTE
STATE-SIZE Friendship - North Campus 531 FTE
STATE-SIZE Williamsburg Brewery 527 FTE
STATE-SIZE James River Clubhouse 527 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Virginia Beach 8,144 FTE
CITY-NEAR Main Office - 01 7,774 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hii - Technical Solutions Division 4,475 FTE
CITY-NEAR STIHL Inc. 2,399 FTE
NAT-TCR The Village Healthcare Center 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Sarasota- CF 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR MRIE - McKees Rocks 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR ShopRite of Slingerlands 7.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lakeview Farms 530 FTE
NAT-SIZE Arhaus Furniture - Corporate Office, OH 530 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jose M. Espindola 530 FTE
NAT-SIZE West Valley Plant 530 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, 2020, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.