Industrial Supplies Merchant Wholesalers · Tennessee

9745-Vallen Distribution Inc-000921_us_c0656

Smyrna, TN · ~44 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
2.9
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

9745-Vallen Distribution Inc-000921_us_c0656 runs at 130% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Industrial Supplies Merchant Wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

9745-Vallen Distribution Inc-000921_us_c0656: 2.9 TCR = 130% of Industrial Supplies Merchant Wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

9745-Vallen Distribution Inc-000921_us_c0656 safety composite

9745-Vallen Distribution Inc-000921_us_c0656 scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 75% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 43%), 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

56/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% 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

−5.7

2022→2023

9745-Vallen Distribution Inc-000921_us_c0656 injury rate improved

9745-Vallen Distribution Inc-000921_us_c0656's TCR fell 5.7 from 5.7 in 2022 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 5.7 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=5.7 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423840 · Smyrna, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 2.9 · 130% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #10/14
  • PHOTO GA100
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~44 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: GA100 (0.0 TCR gap)

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9745-Vallen Distribution Inc-000921_us_c0656 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 9745-Vallen Distribution Inc-000921_us_c0656 averages 2.9 TCR (130% of the Industrial Supplies Merchant Wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

9745-Vallen Distribution Inc-000921_us_c0656 TCR series: 2022=5.7 · 2023=0 · BLS 2.2

Where 9745-Vallen Distribution Inc-000921_us_c0656 falls in its industry

589 Industrial Supplies Merchant W establishments

Safer than 43% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 14 Industrial Supplies Merchant W employers in Tennessee.

9745-Vallen Distribution Inc-000921_us_c0656 (44 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 05001,0001,5002,000 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate 9745-Vallen Distribution Inc-000921_us_c0656
9745-Vallen Distribution Inc-000921_us_c0656 (44 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 2.5

9745-Vallen Distribution Inc-000921_us_c0656 has more employees than the Industrial Supplies Merchant Wholesalers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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 5.7 5.7 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423840 · TN · Smyrna

589 Industrial Supplies Merchant Wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 117 employers in Smyrna, 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 GA100 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR SouthernCarlson - Houston Eastex 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Malloy Electric-Omaha 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR MDBA5 2.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE South Pittsburg Office 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southern Building Group, Inc. 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE Walker Building Group, LLC 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE JACKSON SHOP & WEST TENN STRUCTURES 44 FTE
CITY-NEAR Smyrna Vehicle Plant 6,459 FTE
CITY-NEAR Yates Services, LLC @ Nissan Smyrna 1,196 FTE
CITY-NEAR TLC 989 FTE
CITY-NEAR Asurion 952 FTE
NAT-TCR Midway Arms Inc 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Misericordia Nursing & Rehabilitation Center 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR AFCO Olmsted 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Sensible Portions/The Hain Celestial Group, Inc. 2.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Elrods Cost Plus #9 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Matthew Brian Hitchcock, LLC 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Anderson Underground, Inc. 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE NAGL Manufacturing 44 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: 2023, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.