Fine paper, bulk, merchant wholesalers · Tennessee

02-Chattanooga

Chattanooga, TN · ~18 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
2.8
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

02-Chattanooga runs at 129% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Fine paper, bulk, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

02-Chattanooga: 2.8 TCR = 129% of Fine paper, bulk, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

02-Chattanooga safety composite

02-Chattanooga scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 74% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 35%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

D

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

02-Chattanooga held a steady TCR band

02-Chattanooga's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2019 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 14.1 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=0.0 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=14.1 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424110 · Chattanooga, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 2.8 · 129% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #4/5
  • PHOTO OK Houston
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~18 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: OK Houston (0.0 TCR gap)

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02-Chattanooga in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows 02-Chattanooga averages 2.8 TCR (129% of the Fine paper, bulk, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

02-Chattanooga TCR series: 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=14.1 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · BLS 2.2

Where 02-Chattanooga falls in its industry

116 Fine paper, bulk, merchant who establishments

Safer than 35% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 5 Fine paper, bulk, merchant who employers in Tennessee.

02-Chattanooga (18 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 46 employees and a TCR of 2.2 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 050100150200 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate 02-Chattanooga
02-Chattanooga (18 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 46 employees and a TCR of 2.2

02-Chattanooga has fewer employees than the Fine paper, bulk, merchant wholesalers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.2. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 14.1 0.0 2 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424110 · TN · Chattanooga

116 Fine paper, bulk, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 695 employers in Chattanooga, TN · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR OK Houston 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lindenmeyr Bellingham 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR MAC Papers - Dependable Packaging Solutions (DPS) 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR George DeLallo Company-Bakery 2.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Halls Gin Company 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southwest Tennessee EMC - Atoka 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE sbi Field Operations 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE 505 18 FTE
CITY-NEAR CHATTANOOGA COKE 8,650 FTE
CITY-NEAR CHATTANOOGA FOOD 8,650 FTE
CITY-NEAR USXpress 7,385 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cardiology GB 6,606 FTE
NAT-TCR Titan Electric LLC 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Construction 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Sunbelt Greenhouses, Inc. 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR DC 29 - Lakeland, FL 2.8 TCR

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.