Department Store · Tennessee

453 Chattanooga

Chattanooga, TN · ~47 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.8
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

453 Chattanooga runs at 53% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Department Store workplace, earning a grade B.

453 Chattanooga: 1.8 TCR = 53% of Department Store BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

453 Chattanooga safety composite

453 Chattanooga scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

C

71/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% 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%).

TCR Δ

−3.6

2023→2024

453 Chattanooga injury rate improved

453 Chattanooga's TCR fell 3.6 from 3.6 in 2023 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 3.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=3.6 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452210 · Chattanooga, TN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.8 · 53% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #6/35
  • PHOTO 1138 Rock Hill
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~47 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 1138 Rock Hill (0.0 TCR gap)

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453 Chattanooga in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 453 Chattanooga averages 1.8 TCR (53% of the Department Store BLS benchmark).

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

453 Chattanooga TCR series: 2023=3.6 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.4

Where 453 Chattanooga falls in its industry

2,917 Department Store establishments

Safer than 82% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 35 Department Store employers in Tennessee.

453 Chattanooga (47 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 98 employees and a TCR of 3.1 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate 453 Chattanooga
453 Chattanooga (47 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 98 employees and a TCR of 3.1

453 Chattanooga has fewer employees than the Department Store median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.1. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 3.6 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452210 · TN · Chattanooga

2,917 Department Store 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 · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR 1138 Rock Hill 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 272 - Kirkwood 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 987 - Hagerstown 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1004 - Hillsboro 1.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Tennessee Hatchery 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE Proton Power Inc. 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE BAE Analytical Lab 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE SC420 - Nashville 47 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 Berry-It Inc 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Tower Automotive Operations USA I, LLC - Meridian 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Digital Alert Systems, Inc 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Brink Constructors, Inc. 1.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Fremont Purina Feed Mill 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1192 Ellisville 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE Red Star Yeast Company 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE 448 - St Louis Fas 47 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.

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