Gas, natural, pipeline operation · Virginia

Virginia - South

Chatham, VA · ~37 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.6
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Virginia - South runs at 59% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Gas, natural, pipeline operation workplace, earning a grade B.

Virginia - South: 2.6 TCR = 59% of Gas, natural, pipeline operation BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Virginia - South safety composite

Virginia - South scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% 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).

F

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 2.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.59 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%).

Virginia - South held a steady TCR band

Virginia - South's TCR held near 0.1 from 2.7 in 2023 to 2.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 2.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.98× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=2.7 · 2024=2.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 486210 · Chatham, VA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.6 · 59% of ind

  • DART 2.6 DART
  • RANK P16
  • PHOTO Belle River Service …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~37 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Belle River Service Center (0.1 TCR gap)

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Virginia - South in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Virginia - South averages 2.6 TCR (59% of the Gas, natural, pipeline operation BLS benchmark).

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

Virginia - South TCR series: 2023=2.7 · 2024=2.6 · BLS 4.5

Where Virginia - South falls in its industry

56 Gas, natural, pipeline operati establishments

Safer than 16% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Virginia - South (37 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 1.5 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 05001,0001,500 012345 Average employees Total Case Rate Virginia - South
Virginia - South (37 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 1.5

Virginia - South has fewer employees than the Gas, natural, pipeline operation median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.5. 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
2024 2.6 2.6 1 0 0
2023 2.7 0.0 0 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

486210 · VA · Chatham

56 Gas, natural, pipeline operation employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 19 employers in Chatham, 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 Belle River Service Center 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Texas - Southeast 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Okarche C&M Office 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR North Carolina - North 2.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Silver Creek Orchards, Inc. 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Robert S. Coleman Lumber Co., Inc 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pulaski Svc Ctr 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Central District 37 FTE
CITY-NEAR Green Rock Correctional Center 276 FTE
CITY-NEAR Davenport Energy, Inc. 167 FTE
CITY-NEAR Columbia Forest Products - Chatham Mill 161 FTE
CITY-NEAR 00464 - STORE # 464 CHATHAM 87 FTE
NAT-TCR 101 Florissant 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 726 Jefferson City 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Nckan - Kannapolis 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR The Center for Human Services 2.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Tarpstop Gary 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Macawber Engineering, Inc. 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pallet Source 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Darling Ingredients 37 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.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.