Chewing tobacco manufacturing · Tennessee

American Snuff Company

Memphis, TN · ~130 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

American Snuff Company runs at 45% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Chewing tobacco manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

American Snuff Company: 1.5 TCR = 45% of Chewing tobacco manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

American Snuff Company safety composite

American Snuff Company scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 68% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 52%), 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

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 68% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

American Snuff Company: 0.7 → 2.2 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 2.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.75× in 2023

American Snuff Company's TCR rose 1.5 from 0.7 in 2022 to 2.2 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0.75× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 312230 · Memphis, TN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.5 · 45% of ind

  • DART 1.1 DART
  • RANK #2/7
  • PHOTO ITG Brands, LLC Prod…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~130 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ITG Brands, LLC Production/Processing (0.0 TCR gap)

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American Snuff Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows American Snuff Company averages 1.5 TCR (45% of the Chewing tobacco manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

American Snuff Company TCR series: 2022=0.7 · 2023=2.2 · BLS 3.3

Where American Snuff Company falls in its industry

53 Chewing tobacco manufacturing establishments

Safer than 68% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 7 Chewing tobacco manufacturing employers in Tennessee.

American Snuff Company (130 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 153 employees and a TCR of 2.1 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 05001,0001,5002,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate American Snuff Company
American Snuff Company (130 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 153 employees and a TCR of 2.1

American Snuff Company has fewer employees than the Chewing tobacco manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.1. 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
2023 2.2 1.1 2 0 0
2022 0.7 0.7 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

312230 · TN · Memphis

53 Chewing tobacco manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 1,330 employers in Memphis, 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 ITG Brands, LLC Production/Processing 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lancaster Leaf Tobacco Company, Inc. - Main Office 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Shorefair Manufacturing 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tobaccoville Manufacturing 1.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Railroad Consultants, PLLC 130 FTE
STATE-SIZE DSE ERECTORS 130 FTE
STATE-SIZE Interstate AC Service LLC 130 FTE
STATE-SIZE MDS Foods Inc Tennessee 130 FTE
CITY-NEAR FedEx 2903 SPRANKLE DR 12,398 FTE
CITY-NEAR 381940311 9,861 FTE
CITY-NEAR American Residential Services 5,775 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Jude Children's Research Hospital 5,599 FTE
NAT-TCR Caterpillar Morton - VSI 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Ink Systems Inc 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Red Oak 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Big Springs Sheltered Workshop 1.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Barre #123 130 FTE
NAT-SIZE Colonie #224 130 FTE
NAT-SIZE Chemence Inc 130 FTE
NAT-SIZE Associated Spring Bristol Division 130 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.

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