Highway construction · Virginia

W. C. English, Incorporated

Lynchburg, VA · ~122 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.8
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

W. C. English, Incorporated runs at 100% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Highway construction workplace, earning a grade C.

W. C. English, Incorporated: 2.8 TCR = 100% of Highway construction BLS 2.8 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

W. C. English, Incorporated safety composite

W. C. English, Incorporated scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 32%), 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

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% 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%).

W. C. English, Incorporated held a steady TCR band

W. C. English, Incorporated's TCR held near 0.2 from 2.8 in 2019 to 2.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 5.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.92× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=2.8 · 2021=5.0 · 2022=2.8 · 2023=0.8 · 2024=2.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237310 · Lynchburg, VA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.8 · 100% of ind

  • DART 2.6 DART
  • RANK #67/141
  • PHOTO Construction Company
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~122 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Construction Company (0.0 TCR gap)

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W. C. English, Incorporated in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows W. C. English, Incorporated averages 2.8 TCR (100% of the Highway construction BLS benchmark).

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

W. C. English, Incorporated TCR series: 2019=2.8 · 2021=5 · 2022=2.8 · 2023=0.8 · 2024=2.6 · BLS 2.8

Where W. C. English, Incorporated falls in its industry

4,078 Highway construction establishments

Safer than 53% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #67 safest of 141 Highway construction employers in Virginia.

W. C. English, Incorporated (122 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 01,0002,0003,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate W. C. English, Incorporated
W. C. English, Incorporated (122 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0

W. C. English, Incorporated has more employees than the Highway construction median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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 2.6 2.6 2 1 0
2023 0.8 0.8 1 0 0
2022 2.8 1.9 3 0 0
2021 5.0 4.3 7 0 0
2019 2.8 1.7 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237310 · VA · Lynchburg

4,078 Highway construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 360 employers in Lynchburg, 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 Construction Company 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Martin General Engineering, Inc. 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR BU 213 NORTH EAST PAVING 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR WEST TENN PAVING & GRADING 2.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Greenbrier Yard 122 FTE
STATE-SIZE Capital Interior Contractors 122 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kingspan Insulation - Winchester 122 FTE
STATE-SIZE Timberlake Cabinetry: A Division of American Woodmark 122 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lynchburg General Hospital 2,596 FTE
CITY-NEAR BWXT NOG Lynchburg 2,200 FTE
CITY-NEAR BWXT Nuclear Operations Group, Inc. - Lynchburg 2,180 FTE
CITY-NEAR Centra Urgent Care Forest 1,283 FTE
NAT-TCR NCK 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Calexico CA FXFE-CLX 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Tru-Line Manufacturing, Inc. 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Sunset 2.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Bothell Health Care 122 FTE
NAT-SIZE FandS transportation, Inc. 122 FTE
NAT-SIZE Foodservice Northland Cheese - 1036 122 FTE
NAT-SIZE Steelmart Inc 122 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, 2022, 2021, 2019. 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.