State profile · OSHA ITA
West Virginia workplace safety
How 2,269 OSHA-reporting employers across West Virginia compare on workplace injuries, 2016–2024.
- 2,269
- Employers
- 5.4
- Avg TCR
- 38,717
- Injuries
- 29
- Fatalities
The state picture
West Virginia's reporting employers average 5.4 recordable injuries per 100 workers, 2.0 times the ~2.7 all-industry private-sector norm.
- 5.4
- avg TCR · per 100 workers
- 2,269
- employers reporting
- 38,717
- recordable injuries
- 29
- worker fatalities
State average reflects each state's industry mix. Sort the table below by each employer's own grade against its industry benchmark.
22% of West 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 West Virginia ranks among states
54 states & territories by avg TCRWest Virginia's average TCR of 5.4 is lower than 38% of states, a state average reflects industry mix as much as workplace safety.
How West Virginia Workplaces Compare
West Virginia hosts 2,269 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 West Virginia cohort, workers have logged 38,717 recordable injuries, producing a state average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 5.4 injuries per 100 full-time workers per year during 2016–2024.
The state has recorded 29 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 West 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 West Virginia, by injury rate
Page 36 of 46| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mountain Valley Breeders | Baker | Chicken Egg Production | A | 1.0 |
| Dailey Yard | Dailey | Cornices, wood, manufacturin | A | 1.0 |
| CNC Shop | Huntington | Machine shops | A | 1.0 |
| 183 Hilltop Center - Wv | Hilltop | Healthcare Facility | A | 1.0 |
| Shamblin Stone | Dunbar | Crushed stone merchant whole | A | 0.9 |
| Robinson Annex | Scarbro | Administrative management se | A | 0.9 |
| Energy Transportation, LLC | Clarksburg | Crude oil pipeline transport | A | 0.9 |
| NGK Spark Plugs, West Virginia | Sissonville | Spark plugs for internal com | A | 0.9 |
| South Branch Plant | Moorefield | Cabinets, kitchen (except fr | A | 0.9 |
| Chas 1500 Maccorkle Ave | Charleston | Telecommunications carriers, | D | 0.9 |
| Allegheny Surveys, Inc. | Birch River | Topographic surveying servic | D | 0.9 |
| Zoetis Willow Island | Willow Island | Antibiotics, uncompounded, m | A | 0.9 |
| Pt Pleasant Ofc and Svc Ctr | Pt. Pleasant | - | B | 0.9 |
| 260 - North Riverside | North Riverside | - | A | 0.9 |
| West Virginia's Choice, Inc. | Morgantown | Home health care agencies | A | 0.9 |
| Mouldagraph Corporation - Nitro, WV | Nitro | Machine shops | A | 0.9 |
| Charleston Oregon (S170) | Charleston | Other Chemical and Allied Pr | A | 0.9 |
| HNTNWVUV | Huntington | Telemarketing Bureaus and Ot | A | 0.9 |
| Goodrich ES - Sensors and Integrated Systems | Union | Pneumatic De-Icers, Electron | A | 0.9 |
| Clearon Corp. | S. Charleston | Chlorine compounds, not spec | A | 0.9 |
| DALB, Inc | Kearneysville | Badges, plastics, manufactur | A | 0.9 |
| Capon Springs and Farms, Inc. | High View | Hotels, resort, without casi | A | 0.9 |
| Wheeling Clinic | Wheeling | Medical doctors' (MDs, excep | A | 0.9 |
| Logan | Logan | Electrical Wholesale Distrib | A | 0.9 |
| Gantt's Excavating and Contracting, Inc. | Martinsburg | Excavating, earthmoving, or | A | 0.9 |
| North American Services Group - Hurricane | Hurricane | Sandblasting, building exter | A | 0.9 |
| Applied Construction Solutions, INC | Clarksburg | Compressor, metering and pum | A | 0.9 |
| Rexnord Industries LLC | Cudahy | Ball joints (except aircraft | A | 0.9 |
| Triad Engineering, Inc. | Scott Depot | Civil engineering services | D | 0.9 |
| Wayne Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, LLC | Charleston | Skilled nursing facilities | A | 0.9 |
| Logoplaste, Tabler Station LLC | Inwood | Bottles, plastics, manufactu | A | 0.9 |
| C. J. Hughes Construction Co., Inc. | Huntington | Distribution line, sewer and | A | 0.9 |
| West Virginia's Choice - Keyser | Keyser | Home care of elderly, non-me | A | 0.9 |
| Weston | Weston | RETAIL | A | 0.9 |
| Construction | Morgantown | Excavation contractors | A | 0.9 |
| Sistersville, West Virginia | Friendly | Carbon organic compounds, no | A | 0.9 |
| West Virginia's Choice, Inc. - Morgantown | Morgantown | Home health care agencies | A | 0.9 |
| Unit #2083 | Charleston | Retail | A | 0.9 |
| Arclin Amines | Belle | Methylamine manufacturing | A | 0.8 |
| The Thrasher Group - Bridgeport | Bridgeport | Civil engineering services | D | 0.8 |
| Mouldagraph Corporation | Nitro | Machine shops | A | 0.8 |
| Clearon Manufacturing | South Charleston | Sodium inorganic compounds, | A | 0.8 |
| Parkersburg/Washington | Washington | Industrial gases manufacturi | A | 0.8 |
| RW Products LLC | Wheeling | Roustabout mining services, | A | 0.8 |
| Infinity Electric LLC | Morgantown | Electrical wiring contractor | A | 0.8 |
| 149 TA Hurricane | Hurricane | Truck stops | A | 0.8 |
| Hospice of the Panhandle Inpatient Facility | Kearneysville | Convalescent homes or conval | A | 0.8 |
| Unit #0995 | Bluefield | Retail | A | 0.8 |
| Buckhannon | Buckhannon | Engineered Lumber | A | 0.8 |
| Mining Controls LLC | Beaver | Panelboards, electric power | A | 0.8 |
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
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What West Virginia's safety record means for you
West Virginia averages a TCR of 5.4 - about 2.0× 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.