Racks, household-type, made from purchased wire · Tennessee

American Appliance Products Newport

Newport, TN · ~247 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

American Appliance Products Newport runs at 139% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Racks, household-type, made from purchased wire workplace, earning a grade D.

American Appliance Products Newport: 4.6 TCR = 139% of Racks, household-type, made from purchased wire BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

American Appliance Products Newport safety composite

American Appliance Products Newport scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 57% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 39%), 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

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% 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

−4.7

2016→2019

American Appliance Products Newport injury rate improved

American Appliance Products Newport's TCR fell 4.7 from 6.5 in 2016 to 1.8 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2017 at 6.9 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.19× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=6.5 · 2017=6.9 · 2018=3.3 · 2019=1.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332618 · Newport, TN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.6 · 139% of ind

  • DART 0.9 DART
  • RANK #15/16
  • PHOTO Universal Wire Cloth…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 37 inj
  • SIZE ~247 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Universal Wire Cloth Company, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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American Appliance Products Newport in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows American Appliance Products Newport averages 4.6 TCR (139% of the Racks, household-type, made from purchased wire BLS benchmark).

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

American Appliance Products Newport TCR series: 2016=6.5 · 2017=6.9 · 2018=3.3 · 2019=1.8 · BLS 3.3

Where American Appliance Products Newport falls in its industry

270 Racks, household-type, made fr establishments

Safer than 39% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #15 safest of 16 Racks, household-type, made fr employers in Tennessee.

American Appliance Products Newport (247 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.7 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate American Appliance Products Newport
American Appliance Products Newport (247 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.7

American Appliance Products Newport has more employees than the Racks, household-type, made from purchas median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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
2019 1.8 0.9 4 0 0
2018 3.3 3.3 8 0 0
2017 6.9 4.9 13 4 0
2016 6.5 3.9 12 3 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332618 · TN · Newport

270 Racks, household-type, made from purchased wire employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 38 employers in Newport, 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 Universal Wire Cloth Company, Inc. 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR EWP Las Cruces New Mexico 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR WireCo WorldGroup Kirksville 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bridon-Bekaert 4.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Champion Dresden 247 FTE
STATE-SIZE Smith + Nephew Inc. Oxinium 247 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 1226 247 FTE
STATE-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - DTN8 247 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pacific Tomato Growers, Ltd. - Newport TN Housing 567 FTE
CITY-NEAR Smoky Mountain Family Farms LLC - Newport TN Farm 470 FTE
CITY-NEAR Newport 456 FTE
CITY-NEAR Newport TN 422 FTE
NAT-TCR Huntington Place 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Bradley SD #61 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Tops 108 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Ankeny High School 4.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE 1901 Mechanical and Plumbing 247 FTE
NAT-SIZE Midwest Industrial Rubber, Inc. 247 FTE
NAT-SIZE FLSmidth USA Inc. - Tucson Operations 247 FTE
NAT-SIZE Minerva Manufacturing Facility 247 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: 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.