Utility line (i.e., communication, electric power), construction · Virginia

W. A. Chester

Lanham, VA · ~153 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.8
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

W. A. Chester runs at 30% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Utility line (i.e., communication, electric power), construction workplace, earning a grade A.

W. A. Chester: 0.8 TCR = 30% of Utility line (i.e., communication, electric power), construction BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

W. A. Chester safety composite

W. A. Chester scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 79% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 47%), 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

61/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 0.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

W. A. Chester: 0.5 → 1.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 1.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.68× in 2024

W. A. Chester's TCR rose 0.6 from 0.5 in 2023 to 1.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.68× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237130 · Lanham, VA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.8 · 30% of ind

  • DART 0.6 DART
  • RANK #12/45
  • PHOTO Main Office
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~153 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Main Office (0.0 TCR gap)

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W. A. Chester in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows W. A. Chester averages 0.8 TCR (30% of the Utility line (i.e., communication, electric power), construction BLS benchmark).

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

W. A. Chester TCR series: 2023=0.5 · 2024=1.2 · BLS 2.8

Where W. A. Chester falls in its industry

1,605 Utility line (i.e., communicat establishments

Safer than 79% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 45 Utility line (i.e., communicat employers in Virginia.

W. A. Chester (153 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 2.0 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate W. A. Chester
W. A. Chester (153 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 2.0

W. A. Chester has more employees than the Utility line (i.e., communication, elect median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.0. 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
2024 1.2 0.6 2 0 0
2023 0.5 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237130 · VA · Lanham

1,605 Utility line (i.e., communication, electric power), construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 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 Main Office 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR TESSCO Carlsbad 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR MPE- Power 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tower Pros LLC - Chicago 0.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Harrisonburg Pack 153 FTE
STATE-SIZE ALEXAND-ARLINGT 153 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sparkle Painting Co., Inc. 153 FTE
STATE-SIZE Moog Christiansburg 153 FTE
NAT-TCR Tailor Welded Blanks Monroe 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR FMG Express Facility Management Group LLC 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Mitternight Boiler Works 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR FIAT Products 0.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Alpha Zulu Logistics 153 FTE
NAT-SIZE La Vista Embassy Suites 153 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hallmark Manor 153 FTE
NAT-SIZE ABS Sanford Door 153 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.