Plumbing, Heating & AC · Virginia

WestRock-Waco Shop

Covington, VA · ~106 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.4
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

WestRock-Waco Shop runs at 227% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Plumbing, Heating & AC workplace, earning a grade F.

WestRock-Waco Shop: 6.4 TCR = 227% of Plumbing, Heating & AC BLS 2.8 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

WestRock-Waco Shop safety composite

WestRock-Waco Shop scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 13%), 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

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% 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

WestRock-Waco Shop: 5.1 → 9.5 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 9.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.9× in 2020

WestRock-Waco Shop's TCR rose 4.4 from 5.1 in 2016 to 9.5 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2017 at 9.6 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.9× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238220 · Covington, VA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 6.4 · 227% of ind

  • DART 5.7 DART
  • RANK #127/152
  • PHOTO Sunrise Mechanical LLC
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~106 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sunrise Mechanical LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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WestRock-Waco Shop in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows WestRock-Waco Shop averages 6.4 TCR (227% of the Plumbing, Heating & AC BLS benchmark).

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

WestRock-Waco Shop TCR series: 2016=5.1 · 2017=9.6 · 2018=5 · 2019=2.6 · 2020=9.5 · BLS 2.8

Where WestRock-Waco Shop falls in its industry

5,793 Plumbing, Heating & AC establishments

Safer than 25% 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 #127 safest of 152 Plumbing, Heating & AC employers in Virginia.

WestRock-Waco Shop (106 employees, TCR 6.4) 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 WestRock-Waco Shop
WestRock-Waco Shop (106 employees, TCR 6.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.3

WestRock-Waco Shop has more 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
2020 9.5 5.7 5 0 0
2019 2.6 0.9 3 0 0
2018 5.0 0.0 4 0 0
2017 9.6 4.8 6 0 0
2016 5.1 5.1 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238220 · VA · Covington

5,793 Plumbing, Heating & AC employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 23 employers in Covington, 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 Sunrise Mechanical LLC 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Automatic Fire Systems, Inc 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR RCOA, LLC D/B/A Carolina Cool 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Detmer and Sons Fairborn 6.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE VNG Newport News 106 FTE
STATE-SIZE New Dominion Construction, LLC 106 FTE
STATE-SIZE Manassas Catalent 106 FTE
STATE-SIZE Heyco Werk USA Inc. 106 FTE
CITY-NEAR Covington Mill 1,070 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3701 Covington Mill 1,021 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2662 218 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2662 215 FTE
NAT-TCR 1855-MIDET456 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Flowers Baking Company of Thomasville LLC 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Public Health 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Big Tex Trailer Manufacturing, LLC. - Wills Point 6.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Delavan 106 FTE
NAT-SIZE Metal Powder Products 106 FTE
NAT-SIZE RRSC SeaTac Market 106 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1051 Clifton, Nj 106 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: 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.