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 179 of 254| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Emory and Henry College | Emory | Janitorial services | A | 1.5 |
| Ross store 233 | Falls Church | Retail Store | A | 1.5 |
| 5067 - Newport News | Newport News | Lawncare | A | 1.5 |
| Work | Harrisonburg | Electrical contractors | B | 1.5 |
| Washington Gas Energy Services - HQ | Vienna | Natural gas distribution sys | D | 1.5 |
| Corporate | Dumfries | Security patrol services | B | 1.5 |
| Espina Paving, Inc. | Woodbridge | Concrete paving, residential | B | 1.5 |
| JRC Mechanical | Chesapeake | Central heating equipment an | B | 1.5 |
| Planters Peanuts | Suffolk | Canned nuts manufacturing | A | 1.5 |
| Blackwater Electric Inc. | Chesapeake | Electrical contractors | B | 1.5 |
| REN567 | Ashland | EXTERMINATING AND PEST CONTR | A | 1.5 |
| 1255 1255-Virginia Beach, Va-369 Edwin Dr | Virginia Beach | Other Professional Equipment | B | 1.5 |
| Cal Cartage Warehousing Transloading LLC-375 KENYON RD | Suffolk | Transportation Warehousing L | A | 1.5 |
| Monogram Snacks Martinsville LLC | Martinsville | SAUSAGES AND OTHER PREPARED | A | 1.5 |
| UAPC Norfolk | Norfolk | Compressors, air and gas, ge | A | 1.5 |
| Norfolk City Jail | Norfolk | Not required | A | 1.5 |
| 2508 | Cape Charles | Supermrkts & other grocery s | A | 1.5 |
| Avitecture, Inc. | Sterling | Low voltage electrical work | B | 1.5 |
| Oak Hall Industries, LP - Roanoke | Roanoke | Gowns (e.g., academic, choir | A | 1.5 |
| Richmond Virginia Oakleys Ct | Richmond | Distribution transformers, e | A | 1.5 |
| Advance Trailer Systems | Henrico | General warehousing and stor | A | 1.5 |
| Hilton Garden Inn Hampton | Hampton | Hotels (except casino hotels | B | 1.5 |
| Blacksburg | Christiansburg | Catalytic converters, engine | A | 1.5 |
| East Penn Virginia Warehouse | Ashland | Motor Vehicle Supplies and N | B | 1.5 |
| 5037 | Fredericksburg | Automotive Parts and Accesso | A | 1.5 |
| Hanwha Azdel Inc. | Forest | Laminated plastics plate, ro | A | 1.5 |
| LEO Construction Co. | Aldie | Horizontal drilling (e.g., u | B | 1.5 |
| James Madison University | Harrisonburg | Academies, college or univer | C | 1.5 |
| Clinch River | Cleveland | - | D | 1.5 |
| 6091-148 | Herndon | Urban Transit Systems | A | 1.5 |
| St. Catherine's School | Richmond | Cafeteria food services cont | A | 1.5 |
| Unites States Penitentiary Lee | Jonesville | Penitentiaries | A | 1.5 |
| NXL Construction Services, Inc. | Richmond | Road construction | B | 1.5 |
| Recycled Richmond (UT1R) | Richmond | Skids and pallets, wood or w | A | 1.5 |
| Rcwv Eastern Clinical Waiver | Gore | Group homes, intellectual an | A | 1.5 |
| Roanoke | Roanoke | automotive body paint and in | B | 1.5 |
| NVE, Inc. | Herndon | Base facilities operation su | B | 1.5 |
| Store 1632 | Fredericksburg | Supermarkets and other groce | A | 1.5 |
| SMM Group Petersburg, VA | Petersburg | Metal scrap and waste mercha | B | 1.5 |
| 300-Drees-Washington Dc | Manassas | HOMEBUILDNG | A | 1.5 |
| Trinity Steel Erection | Trinity Steel Erection/ Old Buckingham Rd/ Powhatan | Structural steel erecting or | B | 1.5 |
| Hill Phoenix- Plant 1 | South Chesterfield | Display cases, refrigerated, | A | 1.5 |
| ACREDALE_1352327 | Virginia Beach | Mail and Parcel Delivery | A | 1.5 |
| LORTON_1370959 | Lorton | Mail and Parcel Delivery | A | 1.5 |
| Wawa Site - 695 | Chesapeake | Convenience Store | A | 1.5 |
| 71-Usf-Olf Va Beach Blvd | Virginia Beach | HEALTH AND FITNESS CENTER | A | 1.5 |
| Varney, Inc. | Roanoke | Electrical contractors | B | 1.5 |
| 657 | Midlothian | Convenience Stores | A | 1.5 |
| 695 | Chesapeake | Convenience Stores | A | 1.5 |
| Dahlgren VA | NSWC Access Ctrl | Dahlgren | Administrative management se | B | 1.5 |
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.