Baby foods, canned, merchant wholesalers · Virginia

Wardell

Cedar Bluff, VA · ~26 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.2
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Wardell runs at 192% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Baby foods, canned, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Wardell: 4.2 TCR = 192% of Baby foods, canned, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Wardell safety composite

Wardell scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 72% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

63/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 72% of industry peers

DART rate
C 3.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 61% 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

Wardell: 3.4 → 10.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 10.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.82× in 2024

Wardell's TCR rose 7.0 from 3.4 in 2016 to 10.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.82× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424490 · Cedar Bluff, VA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.2 · 192% of ind

  • DART 3.5 DART
  • RANK #8/33
  • PHOTO Carolina Canners Inc…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~26 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Carolina Canners Incorporated (0.0 TCR gap)

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Wardell in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Wardell averages 4.2 TCR (192% of the Baby foods, canned, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Wardell TCR series: 2016=3.4 · 2017=1.5 · 2018=0 · 2019=3.5 · 2020=7.5 · 2021=0 · 2023=7.6 · 2024=10.4 · BLS 2.2

Where Wardell falls in its industry

1,278 Baby foods, canned, merchant w establishments

Safer than 72% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 33 Baby foods, canned, merchant w employers in Virginia.

Wardell (26 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 6.0 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Wardell
Wardell (26 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 6.0

Wardell has fewer employees than the Baby foods, canned, merchant wholesalers median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.0. 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 10.4 3.5 3 0 0
2023 7.6 7.6 2 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 7.5 3.7 2 0 0
2019 3.5 3.5 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 1.5 0.0 1 0 0
2016 3.4 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424490 · VA · Cedar Bluff

1,278 Baby foods, canned, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 14 employers in Cedar Bluff, 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 Carolina Canners Incorporated 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Community Coffee - Northshore Sales 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chicago Sales 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 7198-00803240 4.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Halifax County Biomass 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Woodlawn Svc Ctr 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Craig-Botetourt Electric Co-op 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Washington Gas Energy Systems - HQ 26 FTE
CITY-NEAR Food City Store #827 104 FTE
CITY-NEAR Consolidated Steel, Inc. 97 FTE
CITY-NEAR Jennmar Corporation of Virginia, Inc. 85 FTE
CITY-NEAR VARIC - RICHLANDS 51 FTE
NAT-TCR Blaise Alexander Chevrolet Buick of Philipsburg 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Mall of Georgia 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Holland Health Center 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Daily Reporter and Printers 4.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE CLARO / PRT - CAC Plaza Rio Hondo 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE SiteOne Landscape Supply #193 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE SiteOne Landscape Supply #196 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE UP 26 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 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.