Homecenter · Tennessee

0638 Lowe S of Blount County Tn

Alcoa, TN · ~181 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.1
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

0638 Lowe S of Blount County Tn runs at 120% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Homecenter workplace, earning a grade D.

0638 Lowe S of Blount County Tn: 4.1 TCR = 120% of Homecenter BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

0638 Lowe S of Blount County Tn safety composite

0638 Lowe S of Blount County Tn scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 61% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 19%), 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

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 61% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% 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%).

Rising injury rate

0638 Lowe S of Blount County Tn: 1.6 → 6.6 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 6.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.21× in 2024

0638 Lowe S of Blount County Tn's TCR rose 5.0 from 1.6 in 2023 to 6.6 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.21× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444110 · Alcoa, TN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.1 · 120% of ind

  • DART 4.9 DART
  • RANK #62/151
  • PHOTO 2009 FT WAYNE
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~181 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 2009 FT WAYNE (0.0 TCR gap)

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0638 Lowe S of Blount County Tn in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 0638 Lowe S of Blount County Tn averages 4.1 TCR (120% of the Homecenter BLS benchmark).

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

0638 Lowe S of Blount County Tn TCR series: 2023=1.6 · 2024=6.6 · BLS 3.4

Where 0638 Lowe S of Blount County Tn falls in its industry

6,309 Homecenter establishments

Safer than 61% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #62 safest of 151 Homecenter employers in Tennessee.

0638 Lowe S of Blount County Tn (181 employees, TCR 4.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 93 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 050100150200250300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate 0638 Lowe S of Blount County Tn
0638 Lowe S of Blount County Tn (181 employees, TCR 4.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 93 employees and a TCR of 4.7

0638 Lowe S of Blount County Tn has more employees than the Homecenter median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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
2024 6.6 4.9 8 0 0
2023 1.6 1.6 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444110 · TN · Alcoa

6,309 Homecenter employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 54 employers in Alcoa, TN · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR 2009 FT WAYNE 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2717 BURTON 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 3318 W CENTRAL LAS VEGAS 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4645 HARRISONBURG 4.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Reinhausen Manufacturing Inc. 181 FTE
STATE-SIZE Valeo Smyrna Site 181 FTE
STATE-SIZE Modine Manufacturing Company - Lawrenceburg 1 181 FTE
STATE-SIZE 3003 LOWE S OF S. CLARKSVILLE TN 181 FTE
CITY-NEAR Arconic Inc. 1,169 FTE
CITY-NEAR Arconic Tennessee Operations 1,084 FTE
CITY-NEAR 672 411 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 672 397 FTE
NAT-TCR BRT, Inc. 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Wentworth Douglass Hospital 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Betzen Trenching Inc. 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR General Mills Yoplait Reed City 4.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE ShopRite of Liberty 181 FTE
NAT-SIZE BCI Solutions 181 FTE
NAT-SIZE DERBY 181 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tolleson AZ 181 FTE

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: 2024, 2023. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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