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West Virginia workplace safety

Name: West Virginia Employer Workplace Safety Data
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How 2,269 OSHA-reporting employers across West Virginia compare on workplace injuries, 2016–2024. Average TCR uses the 1,944 establishments with a credible rate (see methodology).

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

2,269
Employers: 5.4
Avg TCR (rated): 38,717
Injuries (all): 29
Fatalities (all)

TCR, interpreted

Far above average

5.4 avg TCR

West Virginia vs all states by OSHA-reporting employer count

Where this state's ITA establishment inventory sits among every tracked state and territory (coverage signal, not a safety ranking)

2,269 40th of 54 higher than 14 of 54 states

States and territories, banded by OSHA ITA reporting employer count

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Source official public datasets · 2026

The state picture

West Virginia's 1,944 rated 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 · rated subset: 1,944
rated employers: 2,269
all reporting employers: 38,717
recordable injuries (all)

Inventory counts and injury/fatality totals cover all 2,269 ITA establishments; the average TCR excludes zero-rate and corrupt-hours filings. See Methodology → Three Populations.

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

A · 17% B · 13% C · 28% D · 20% F · 22%

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. The published state average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 5.4 injuries per 100 full-time workers uses the 1,944 establishments with a credible rate (zero-rate and corrupt-hours filings stay in the inventory counts above but are excluded from the average, see methodology).

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	City	Industry	Grade	Avg TCR
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
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
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
Ergon-West Virginia, Inc	Newell	Crude petroleum refineries	A	0.8
NGDS-WV01	Rocket Center	Guided Missile and Space Veh	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
Dougherty Company, Inc.	Charleston	Mechanical contractors	A	0.7
Precision Pump and Valve Service - Cross Lanes, WV	Cross Lanes	Machine shops	A	0.7
Smithers Grants	Smithers	Grocery stores	A	0.7
Gihon Piggly Wiggly	Parkersburg	Grocery stores	A	0.7
N Charleston Trs Svc Bldg	Charleston	-	B	0.7
Hometown Grocery LLC	Bluefield	Grocery stores	A	0.7
HillFire	Millwood	Herb farming, grown under co	A	0.7
Pleasants	Willow Island	Electric power generation, f	B	0.7
Mt Storm Power Station, Bath, Warren, Covanta	Mt Storm	Plumbing, Heating & AC	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
Transport Service 60325 - Nitro	Nitro	Tanker trucking (e.g., chemi	A	0.7
739 Hidden Valley Center	Oak Hill	Healthcare Facility	A	0.7
Springlick Pallet Inc.	Keyser	Pallet parts, wood, manufact	A	0.7
Elementis Specialties Proctor WV	Proctor	Naphthenic acid soaps manufa	A	0.7
Covestro South Charleston	South Charleston	Carbon organic compounds, no	A	0.7
Parkersburg	Parkersburg	RETAIL	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
Vcf 026	Parkersburg	Furniture stores (e.g., hous	A	0.7
826	White Sulphur Spr	Supermrkts & other grocery s	A	0.7
Terracare	Malden	Plant maintenance services	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
Charleston, WV HVAC	Nitro	-	A	0.7
Brand Energy Services, LLC - Huntington	Culloden	Scaffold erecting and disman	A	0.7
Goodrich Corporation (Union WV)	Union	Pneumatic DeIcers Electronic	A	0.7
Fairmont State University	Fairmont	Academies, college or univer	A	0.7
Sodexo at West Liberty University-Food	West Liberty	Food Service Contractors	A	0.7
Mt Storm Power Station	Mt Storm	Plumbing, Heating & AC	A	0.6
BEK, Inc. dba Level 1 Fasteners	Huntington	Bolts, metal, manufacturing	A	0.6
West Virginia - Non Metals	Buffalo	Recyclable material collecti	A	0.6
Nitro Construction Services	Nitro	Fire alarm system, electric,	A	0.6

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Nationwide states with similar injury rates or employer scale

Two PlainSafetyScore-derived peer sets for West Virginia: nearest states and territories by rated-subset average Total Case Rate and by OSHA-reporting employer inventory. These are cross-state neighborhoods, not the employer list above.

Similar average TCR

Nearest states by rated-subset Total Case Rate (5.4 here).

Nebraska TCR 5.4 Nevada TCR 5.5 New Jersey TCR 5.5 Pennsylvania TCR 5.5

Similar employer inventory

Nearest states by reporting employer count (2,269 here).

New Mexico 2,241 emp. Maine 2,397 emp. Hawaii 2,022 emp. New Hampshire 2,718 emp.

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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.