Barrels, wood, coopered, manufacturing · West Virginia

WVGBC Cooperage

Caldwell, WV · ~110 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

WVGBC Cooperage runs at 283% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Barrels, wood, coopered, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

WVGBC Cooperage: 9.3 TCR = 283% of Barrels, wood, coopered, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

WVGBC Cooperage safety composite

WVGBC Cooperage scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 27%), 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

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% 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

WVGBC Cooperage: 8.3 → 10.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 10.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.68× in 2024

WVGBC Cooperage's TCR rose 2.0 from 8.3 in 2023 to 10.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.68× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321920 · Caldwell, WV ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 9.3 · 283% of ind

  • DART 6.4 DART
  • RANK #5/5
  • PHOTO Propak - Siloam Spri…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 22 inj
  • SIZE ~110 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Propak - Siloam Springs RLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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WVGBC Cooperage in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows WVGBC Cooperage averages 9.3 TCR (283% of the Barrels, wood, coopered, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

WVGBC Cooperage TCR series: 2023=8.3 · 2024=10.4 · BLS 3.3

Where WVGBC Cooperage falls in its industry

952 Barrels, wood, coopered, manuf establishments

Safer than 30% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to West Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 5 Barrels, wood, coopered, manuf employers in West Virginia.

WVGBC Cooperage (110 employees, TCR 9.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 6.3 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 0100200300400500 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate WVGBC Cooperage
WVGBC Cooperage (110 employees, TCR 9.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 6.3

WVGBC Cooperage has more employees than the Barrels, wood, coopered, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.3. 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
2024 10.4 6.4 12 1 0
2023 8.3 5.0 10 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321920 · WV · Caldwell

952 Barrels, wood, coopered, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 2,269 rated employers in West Virginia with headcount on file · 5 employers in Caldwell, WV · 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 Propak - Siloam Springs RLC 9.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lakeland Pallets Inc 9.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Denver,CO - 434 9.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Salem. OR - 563 9.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Wolfes Excavating 110 FTE
STATE-SIZE Flying W Plastics, Inc. 110 FTE
STATE-SIZE CertainTeed Gypsum West Virginia 110 FTE
STATE-SIZE 183 110 FTE
CITY-NEAR WVLEW - LEWISBURG 80 FTE
CITY-NEAR LEWISBURG (WVLEW) 64 FTE
CITY-NEAR R B S Inc. 33 FTE
CITY-NEAR RBS Inc., Caldwell 26 FTE
NAT-TCR Royal Metal Powders 9.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Olson Precast of Arizona 9.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Bridgton Hospital 9.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Petro Long Island - East 9.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE KO Management LLC 110 FTE
NAT-SIZE Buffalo Air Handling 110 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mala Strana Rehabilitation Center 110 FTE
NAT-SIZE Niacet 110 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.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.