Small animal veterinary services · Virginia

Virginia Veterinary Specialists

Charlottesville, VA · ~69 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.4
Avg TCR
0.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Virginia Veterinary Specialists runs at 1288% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Small animal veterinary services workplace, earning a grade F.

Virginia Veterinary Specialists: 6.4 TCR = 1288% of Small animal veterinary services BLS 0.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Virginia Veterinary Specialists safety composite

Virginia Veterinary Specialists scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 74% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 29%), 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

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 6.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% 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

Virginia Veterinary Specialists: 4.4 → 6.9 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 8.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.43× in 2023

Virginia Veterinary Specialists's TCR rose 2.4 from 4.4 in 2021 to 6.9 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 8.0 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.43× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 541940 · Charlottesville, VA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.4 · 1288% of ind

  • DART 2.8 DART
  • RANK #1/4
  • PHOTO Lakefield Veterinary…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~69 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Lakefield Veterinary Group - 175 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Virginia Veterinary Specialists in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Virginia Veterinary Specialists averages 6.4 TCR (1288% of the Small animal veterinary services BLS benchmark).

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

Virginia Veterinary Specialists TCR series: 2021=4.4 · 2022=8 · 2023=6.9 · BLS 0.5

Where Virginia Veterinary Specialists falls in its industry

261 Small animal veterinary servic establishments

Safer than 74% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 12.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 4 Small animal veterinary servic employers in Virginia.

Virginia Veterinary Specialists (69 employees, TCR 6.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 42 employees and a TCR of 12.0 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 0100200300400 010203040 Average employees Total Case Rate Virginia Veterinary Specialists
Virginia Veterinary Specialists (69 employees, TCR 6.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 42 employees and a TCR of 12.0

Virginia Veterinary Specialists has more employees than the Small animal veterinary services median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 12.0. 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
2023 6.9 2.8 4 1 0
2022 8.0 1.6 5 0 0
2021 4.4 4.4 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

541940 · VA · Charlottesville

261 Small animal veterinary services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 269 employers in Charlottesville, 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 Lakefield Veterinary Group - 175 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lakefield Veterinary Group 189 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR MedVet Mobile 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ocean State Veterinary Specialists 6.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE CHESAPEAKE DIST 69 FTE
STATE-SIZE W.C. Spratt, Inc. 69 FTE
STATE-SIZE WG Construction Co., Inc. 69 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Canada company,LLC 69 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Virginia 11,898 FTE
CITY-NEAR University Of Virginia (209) Health System 10,653 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Virginia Medical Center 8,738 FTE
CITY-NEAR UVA Medical Center 7,268 FTE
NAT-TCR Des Moines Orthopaedic Surgeons PC - DSM 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Modern Building Systems 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Wood Tech Industries, LLC 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR City of Eveleth 6.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Camden 69 FTE
NAT-SIZE Robinson Waste Services 69 FTE
NAT-SIZE Custom Laser Inc 69 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ag Commissioner 69 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.