Marine Cargo Terminal · Virginia

Virginia International Gateway

Portsmouth, VA · ~926 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Virginia International Gateway runs at 62% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Marine Cargo Terminal workplace, earning a grade B.

Virginia International Gateway: 2.8 TCR = 62% of Marine Cargo Terminal BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Virginia International Gateway safety composite

Virginia International Gateway scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 45%), 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

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

Virginia International Gateway: 2.1 → 3.5 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 3.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.14× in 2024

Virginia International Gateway's TCR rose 1.5 from 2.1 in 2023 to 3.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.14× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 488320 · Portsmouth, VA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.8 · 62% of ind

  • DART 3.2 DART
  • RANK #4/13
  • PHOTO United Bulk Terminals
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 45 inj
  • SIZE ~926 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: United Bulk Terminals (0.0 TCR gap)

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Virginia International Gateway in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Virginia International Gateway averages 2.8 TCR (62% of the Marine Cargo Terminal BLS benchmark).

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

Virginia International Gateway TCR series: 2023=2.1 · 2024=3.5 · BLS 4.5

Where Virginia International Gateway falls in its industry

391 Marine Cargo Terminal establishments

Safer than 70% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 13 Marine Cargo Terminal employers in Virginia.

Virginia International Gateway (926 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 4.8 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Virginia International Gateway
Virginia International Gateway (926 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 4.8

Virginia International Gateway has more employees than the Marine Cargo Terminal median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.8. 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
2024 3.5 3.2 30 0 0
2023 2.1 1.8 15 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

488320 · VA · Portsmouth

391 Marine Cargo Terminal employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 137 employers in Portsmouth, 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 United Bulk Terminals 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cedar Port Terminal 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Searsport Terminal 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Darrow Stevedoring 2.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Roanoke 926 FTE
STATE-SIZE Riverside Hospital Services-143 928 FTE
STATE-SIZE Police Department 923 FTE
STATE-SIZE George's Edinburg Processing Plant 931 FTE
CITY-NEAR Maryview Medical Center 1,724 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ceres Hampton Roads 797 FTE
CITY-NEAR Virginia International Gateway by Virginia Interna 545 FTE
CITY-NEAR 300 - Police 325 FTE
NAT-TCR Park Maint Area 2 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Fort Worth - 1006 Railhead DriveFort Worth 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Flexseals, Newnan, GA 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Elliott Tool Technologies 2.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Tapia S & a Service Inc. 926 FTE
NAT-SIZE Q3 Contracting 926 FTE
NAT-SIZE Murray Calloway County Public Hospital 926 FTE
NAT-SIZE Palm 926 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: 2024, 2023. 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.