Plumbing, Heating & AC · Virginia

Virginia Tech

Blacksburg, VA · ~15 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.2
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Virginia Tech runs at 328% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Plumbing, Heating & AC workplace, earning a grade F.

Virginia Tech: 9.2 TCR = 328% of Plumbing, Heating & AC BLS 2.8 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Virginia Tech safety composite

Virginia Tech scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 0%), 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

18/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

DART rate
F 23.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 0% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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 Tech: 0.0 → 23.1 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 23.1 TCR · DART/TCR 2.51× in 2021

Virginia Tech's TCR rose 23.1 from 0.0 in 2016 to 23.1 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 2.51× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238220 · Blacksburg, VA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.2 · 328% of ind

  • DART 23.1 DART
  • RANK #142/152
  • PHOTO Ken Parker Service, …
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~15 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ken Parker Service, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Virginia Tech in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Virginia Tech averages 9.2 TCR (328% of the Plumbing, Heating & AC BLS benchmark).

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

Virginia Tech TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0 · 2020=13.7 · 2021=23.1 · BLS 2.8

Where Virginia Tech falls in its industry

5,793 Plumbing, Heating & AC establishments

Safer than 13% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #142 safest of 152 Plumbing, Heating & AC employers in Virginia.

Virginia Tech (15 employees, TCR 9.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 050100150200250 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Virginia Tech
Virginia Tech (15 employees, TCR 9.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Virginia Tech has fewer employees than the Plumbing, Heating & AC median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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
2021 23.1 23.1 2 0 0
2020 13.7 0.0 2 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238220 · VA · Blacksburg

5,793 Plumbing, Heating & AC employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 45 employers in Blacksburg, VA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Ken Parker Service, Inc. 9.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Anthony Plumbing, Heating, Cooling & Electric 9.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR JNB Mechanical Inc. 9.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Doucet Plumbing Inc. 9.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE 2019133 - Kaiser Springfield MOB 15 FTE
STATE-SIZE 105063 - Cavalier 525kV Substation and Gentie 15 FTE
STATE-SIZE Skyfall Exteriors, LLC 15 FTE
STATE-SIZE MartinRoofing 15 FTE
CITY-NEAR New River Valley Community Services 780 FTE
CITY-NEAR Moog, Inc - Blacksburg Central 691 FTE
CITY-NEAR LewisGale Hospital Mongomery 525 FTE
CITY-NEAR Federal Mogul Blacksburg 518 FTE
NAT-TCR Bath 9.2 TCR
NAT-TCR LLC 9.2 TCR
NAT-TCR willow manor 9.2 TCR
NAT-TCR City of Seneca 9.2 TCR

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: 2021, 2020, 2017, 2016. 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.