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 165 of 254| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sodexo at Mary Washington Univ Catering | Fredericksburg | Food Service Contractors | B | 1.9 |
| Hopewell/Chester | Chester | - | F | 1.9 |
| Stonecroft Transportation Center | Chantilly | Bus operation, school and em | A | 1.9 |
| Thompson Trucking | Concord | Trucking, general freight, l | A | 1.9 |
| Midwest STIHL | Virginia Beach | Private warehousing and stor | A | 1.9 |
| Office of Executive Management | Prince William | Executive Offices | B | 1.9 |
| Nai-0035-0035-01570 Fac-01570-Reston-Va | Reston | Supermarkets and Other Groce | B | 1.9 |
| 0437 Lowe S of Lynchburg Va. | Lynchburg | Homecenter | B | 1.9 |
| Main Office | Rustburg | Grading construction sites | B | 1.9 |
| MCRT2 Hampton 1 Tenant LLC | Hampton | Hotels (except casino hotels | B | 1.9 |
| 101781 - Dulles MetroRail (Kiewit Only) | Dulles | Light rail system constructi | B | 1.9 |
| RACO, Inc. | Gretna | Power and Communication Line | B | 1.9 |
| Midlothian Crossing (#24) | Midlothian | Thrift shops, used merchandi | B | 1.9 |
| Tysons Corner #601 | Mclean | Housewares stores | B | 1.9 |
| Big Lots Store #5281 Alexandria, VA | Alexandria | Retail Other | B | 1.9 |
| Bed Bath and Beyond Vienna | Vienna | retailing new home furnishin | B | 1.9 |
| Va, Md, Dc | Alexandria | Drywall contractors | B | 1.9 |
| Wayland Nursing and Rehabilitation | Keysville | Nursing homes | A | 1.9 |
| Hillsville | Hillsville | Carpet linings (except felt) | B | 1.9 |
| Unit # 2290 | Colonial Heights | Retail | B | 1.9 |
| Goodwill Industries of the Valleys, Works Radford Job Campus 02 | Radford | Used merchandise stores | B | 1.9 |
| Main Office | Newport News | Electrical contractors | B | 1.9 |
| Riverside Cancer Infusion Gloucester 5061 | Gloucester | Infusion therapy centers and | A | 1.9 |
| Ruston Paving Co., Inc - Gainesville, VA | Gainesville | Blacktop work, residential a | B | 1.9 |
| Verona VA Yard | Verona | Other Building Material Deal | B | 1.9 |
| Horizon Home Forest Hills | Lynchburg | Intellectual and development | A | 1.9 |
| Arminco Inc | Sterling | Addition, alteration and ren | B | 1.9 |
| Wallens Ridge State Prison | Big Stone Gap | Prisons | B | 1.9 |
| Prism Maritime, LLC | Chesapeake | Ship repair done in a shipya | B | 1.9 |
| Chesapeake Noland Company | Chesapeake | Plumbing and heating valves | C | 1.9 |
| HandCraft Linen Services - Retail Medical | Richmond | Laundries, linen and uniform | C | 1.9 |
| Design Cuisine Kitchen | Arlington | Food Service Contractors | B | 1.9 |
| Sugaright | Harrisonburg | Granulated cane sugar manufa | A | 1.9 |
| IDX Virginia (UFPI) | Fredericksburg | Fixtures, store display, man | B | 1.9 |
| GLOUCESTER_1365035 | Gloucester | Mail and Parcel Delivery | A | 1.9 |
| Mid Atlantic Construction Group | Fredericksburg | Service station construction | B | 1.9 |
| Creative Office Environments | Ashland | Office furniture stores | B | 1.9 |
| Sodexo at Wandm Commons Building | Williamsburg | Food Service Contractors | B | 1.9 |
| 8623 | Midlothian | Convenience Stores | B | 1.9 |
| Madison Heights | Madison Heights | Trucking, general freight, l | A | 1.9 |
| 1066 | Pulaski | Supermrkts & other grocery s | B | 1.9 |
| 1582 | King George | Supermrkts & other grocery s | B | 1.9 |
| 2529 | Gretna | Supermrkts & other grocery s | B | 1.9 |
| Sodexo at Hca-Pulaski Community Hospital | Pulaski | Food Service Contractors | B | 1.9 |
| 318 Manassas VA | Manassas | Commercial Bakeries | B | 1.9 |
| Avail Vapor LLC | Richmond | Tobacco stores | B | 1.9 |
| 4263-46968 | Alexandria | Hotels | B | 1.9 |
| Gala Industries, Inc. | Eagle Rock | Plastics working machinery m | B | 1.9 |
| Rcrs Va Stafford in Home Supports | Stafford | Group homes, intellectual an | A | 1.9 |
| American Battle Monuments Commission HQ | Arlington | Cemeteries | C | 1.9 |
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.