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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.

West Virginia grade distribution 2,265 graded establishments · width = share

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 TCR

West Virginia's average TCR of 5.4 is lower than 38% of states, a state average reflects industry mix as much as workplace safety.

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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

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Employer CityIndustryGradeAvg TCR
BrandSafway Industries LLC - Chemours Washington Works Chemical Washington Specialty Trade Contractors A 0.8
Allegany Ballistics Laboratory, Rocket Center, WV Rocket Center Propulsion units and parts, A 0.8
East Coast Underground LLC Bridgeport Natural gas pipeline constru A 0.8
Lane Pipeline Construction, LLC. West Union Pipeline construction on oil A 0.8
Appalachian Regional Healthcare Inc Hinton Group hospitalization plans A 0.8
Moundsville Office Moundsville Oil and gas field services ( A 0.8
US Methanol LLC- Liberty One Plant Nitro Methyl alcohol (i.e., methan A 0.8
NGDS-WV01 Rocket Center Guided Missile and Space Veh A 0.8
Ergon-West Virginia, Inc Newell Crude petroleum refineries A 0.8
Milton Office and Service Center Milton Distribution of electric pow B 0.8
Oval Construction Management, LLC Charleston Construction management, wat A 0.8
Mon Valley Integration LLC Morgantown Low voltage electrical work A 0.8
PCI Parkersburg Parkersburg General warehousing and stor A 0.8
West Virginia's Choice, Inc - Elkins Elkins Activity centers for disable A 0.8
Covestro New Martinsville Proctor Diisocyanate resins manufact A 0.7
Eagle Research Corporation Hurricane Industrial process control i A 0.7
West Virginia Radio Corporation Morgantown Radio broadcasting (except e C 0.7
Smithers Grants Smithers Grocery stores A 0.7
Gihon Piggly Wiggly Parkersburg Grocery stores A 0.7
Dougherty Company, Inc. Charleston Mechanical contractors A 0.7
Precision Pump and Valve Service - Cross Lanes, WV Cross Lanes Machine shops A 0.7
Hometown Grocery LLC Bluefield Grocery stores A 0.7
N Charleston Trs Svc Bldg Charleston - B 0.7
HillFire Millwood Herb farming, grown under co A 0.7
Transport Service 60325 - Nitro Nitro Tanker trucking (e.g., chemi A 0.7
Mt Storm Power Station, Bath, Warren, Covanta Mt Storm Plumbing, Heating & AC A 0.7
739 Hidden Valley Center Oak Hill Healthcare Facility A 0.7
DuPont Washington Works Washington Thermoplastic resins and pla A 0.7
Trivium Packaging USA, Inc. - Weirton Weirton Lids and ends, can, light ga A 0.7
Pleasants Willow Island Electric power generation, f B 0.7
Elementis Specialties Proctor WV Proctor Naphthenic acid soaps manufa A 0.7
Parkersburg Parkersburg RETAIL A 0.7
Covestro South Charleston South Charleston Carbon organic compounds, no A 0.7
Springlick Pallet Inc. Keyser Pallet parts, wood, manufact A 0.7
Vcf 026 Parkersburg Furniture stores (e.g., hous A 0.7
Terracare Malden Plant maintenance services A 0.7
RDR Utility Services Group Clarksburg Preparation of oil and gas f A 0.7
Niterra North America, INC Sissonville Coils, ignition, internal co A 0.7
826 White Sulphur Spr Supermrkts & other grocery s A 0.7
Electronic Specialty Company Dunbar Low voltage electrical work A 0.7
Marshall Health Network, Inc., Huntington General medical and surgical A 0.7
Fairmont State University Fairmont Academies, college or univer A 0.7
Goodrich Corporation (Union WV) Union Pneumatic DeIcers Electronic A 0.7
Sodexo at West Liberty University-Food West Liberty Food Service Contractors A 0.7
Charleston, WV HVAC Nitro - A 0.7
Brand Energy Services, LLC - Huntington Culloden Scaffold erecting and disman A 0.7
Mt Storm Power Station Mt Storm Plumbing, Heating & AC A 0.6
West Virginia - Non Metals Buffalo Recyclable material collecti A 0.6
BEK, Inc. dba Level 1 Fasteners Huntington Bolts, metal, manufacturing A 0.6
Oak Hill Grants Oak Hill Grocery stores A 0.6
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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.

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.