State profile · OSHA ITA
Virginia workplace safety
How 12,673 OSHA-reporting employers across Virginia compare on workplace injuries, 2016–2024.
- 12,673
- Employers
- 4.8
- Avg TCR
- 231,519
- Injuries
- 166
- Fatalities
The state picture
Virginia's reporting employers average 4.8 recordable injuries per 100 workers, 1.8 times the ~2.7 all-industry private-sector norm.
- 4.8
- avg TCR · per 100 workers
- 12,673
- employers reporting
- 231,519
- recordable injuries
- 166
- worker fatalities
State average reflects each state's industry mix. Sort the table below by each employer's own grade against its industry benchmark.
19% of Virginia's reporting establishments earn an F and 17% an A, each measured against its own industry benchmark, not the state line. These grades are a transparent derived index, not an official OSHA rating; see the Methodology for the exact formula.
Where Virginia ranks among states
54 states & territories by avg TCRVirginia's average TCR of 4.8 is lower than 74% of states, a state average reflects industry mix as much as workplace safety.
A second cut tells a different story: ranked by injury rate alone, Virginia is #15 of 54. Ranked instead by fatalities per employer establishment, it's #31 of 54, a 16-place swing. A state can run a moderate everyday injury rate while its rarer, most severe incidents cluster differently; the two metrics measure different things and shouldn't be read as interchangeable.
How Virginia Workplaces Compare
Virginia hosts 12,673 employer establishments currently reporting to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. These are not small shops: federal rules require ITA submission from workplaces with 250+ employees in any industry, plus workplaces with 20+ employees in the roughly 60 NAICS codes classified as high-hazard (construction, manufacturing, healthcare, warehousing, agriculture, and others). Across this Virginia cohort, workers have logged 231,519 recordable injuries, producing a state average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 4.8 injuries per 100 full-time workers per year during 2016–2024.
The state has recorded 166 workplace fatalities in the reporting window, which is tracked separately from non-fatal injury counts because fatal events have their own investigation trail under 29 CFR 1904.39. Reading state-level TCR requires context: the headline figure is driven by a state's industry mix. A state with a heavy construction, logging, or meatpacking footprint will mechanically post higher TCR than a state dominated by finance or professional services, even when individual employers are equally well-managed. That is why the employer table below sorts each establishment by its own TCR and letter grade, against the BLS benchmark for its specific industry, not against the state average.
For jobseekers, relocators, investors, and local safety professionals, state-level pages function as an entry point: use the grade-sorted list to spot the safest and highest-risk employers in Virginia, then click through to an individual establishment for its year-by-year injury, illness, DART, and fatality trajectory. Compare multiple years before drawing conclusions, a single outlier year can reflect a specific event, whereas a sustained pattern across reporting cycles is a more reliable risk signal. All data comes directly from employer-submitted OSHA Form 300A summaries. State OSHA plans in 22 states operate their own enforcement programs in parallel, but the injury data above is harmonized through the federal ITA system.
Employers in Virginia, by injury rate
Page 121 of 254| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sayre Enterprises | Buena Vista | Millinery cut and sewn from | C | 3.3 |
| Store 1694 | Midlothian | Supermarkets and other groce | C | 3.3 |
| S04241 - Salem Hauling | Salem | - | D | 3.3 |
| Stone Hill Construction Inc | Bridgewater | Addition, alteration and ren | C | 3.3 |
| VA - Falls Church | Falls Church | 423310 Lumber, Plywood, Mill | D | 3.3 |
| SCM Trucking | Prince George | General freight trucking, lo | B | 3.3 |
| Giant 251 | Charlottesville | Grocery Stores | C | 3.3 |
| Warwick Forest | Newport News | - | B | 3.3 |
| Nai-0035-0035-01538 Fac-01538-Culpeper-Va | Culpeper | Supermarkets and Other Groce | C | 3.3 |
| 2828 Lowe S of Ruckersville Va | Ruckersville | Homecenter | C | 3.3 |
| Store 7326 - Lee Hwy&Virginia | Gainesville | Automotive Parts | C | 3.3 |
| Sysco Northeast Redistribution Center | Front Royal | Cold storage warehousing | B | 3.3 |
| Shady Grove Family YMCA | Glen Allen | Membership associations, civ | D | 3.3 |
| Big Lots Store #5404 Danville, VA | Danville | Retail Other | C | 3.3 |
| CHEP Suffolk Service Center (USI7) | Suffolk | Skids and pallets, wood or w | C | 3.3 |
| 655 | Richmond | Convenience Stores | C | 3.3 |
| 2807-1723 | Gloucester | Homecenter | C | 3.3 |
| Williamsburg Plantation | Williamsburg | Agencies, real estate | F | 3.3 |
| HG205 | Kingstowne | Homefurnishings stores | C | 3.3 |
| Kelvic Construction Co., Inc. | Stafford | Utility line (i.e., sewer, w | C | 3.3 |
| Farmers Cooperative Inc. | Farmville | - | D | 3.3 |
| 992 | Lynchburg | Supermrkts & other grocery s | C | 3.3 |
| Rolls-Royce Crosspointe | Prince George | Jet propulsion and internal | C | 3.3 |
| VA 838 Park Avenue | Norton | - | F | 3.3 |
| Hilton Garden Inn Blacksburg | Blacksburg | Hotel management services | C | 3.3 |
| NOVA District Shop | Fairfax | Auto Repair | D | 3.3 |
| 687 | Yorktown | Convenience Stores | C | 3.3 |
| 7816 | Gordonsville | General Freight Trucking, Lo | B | 3.3 |
| VA01-SMA-CHESAPEAKE | Chesapeake | SPEED CHANGER, INDUSTRIAL HI | C | 3.3 |
| Chippenham Hospital PT | Richmond | - | B | 3.3 |
| Htc45-Bfspr-Tysons Corner | Mclean | HOSPITALITY | C | 3.3 |
| Martin'S Food Markets 6489 | Ashland | Supermarkets | C | 3.3 |
| J.D. Miles & Sons Inc. | Chesapeake | Roofing contractors | C | 3.2 |
| Distribution - Mt. CrawfoVArd | Mt. Crawford | Refrigerated warehousing | B | 3.2 |
| Medical Facilities Of America Xi Limited Partnership | Arlington | Nursing homes | A | 3.2 |
| Excel Truck Group Glen Allen | Glen Allen | Aircraft dealers | C | 3.2 |
| 307 | Stafford | Supermarket, Retail | C | 3.2 |
| Ball Aerocan 751 Verona | Verona | 332431 Aluminum cans, light | C | 3.2 |
| Henley Middle School | Crozet | Elementary and Secondary Sch | F | 3.2 |
| 02237 - Store # 2237 Hampton | Hampton | Grocery Store | C | 3.2 |
| 0334 - Chantilly Va Whse | Chantilly | Warehouse clubs (i.e., food | C | 3.2 |
| 55870 Richmond | Richmond | Paratransit transportation s | B | 3.2 |
| Pheasant Ridge Senior Living | Roanoke | Assisted-living facilities w | C | 3.2 |
| 1173 | Suffolk | Supermrkts & other grocery s | C | 3.2 |
| Ingevity-Waco Shop | Covington | Plumbing, Heating & AC | C | 3.2 |
| Ross store 1299 | Dulles | Retail Store | C | 3.2 |
| Fishersville | Fishersville | Construction machinery and e | D | 3.2 |
| Blue Ridge Fiberboard Inc. | Danville | Fiberboard manufacturing | C | 3.2 |
| Culpeper VA Panel | Elkwood | Engineered Wood Member Manuf | C | 3.2 |
| Lawson Companies | Norfolk | Residential property managin | F | 3.2 |
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
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What Virginia's safety record means for you
Virginia averages a TCR of 4.8 - about 1.8× the ~2.7 national private-sector norm. A state average hides wide employer-by-employer variation.
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State averages use the credible-subset mean across reporting establishments; they are statistical summaries, not regulatory assessments.
Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.