Applicators, wood, manufacturing · Tennessee

American Stairways, INC

Memphis, TN · ~60 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

American Stairways, INC runs at 137% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Applicators, wood, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

American Stairways, INC: 4.5 TCR = 137% of Applicators, wood, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

American Stairways, INC safety composite

American Stairways, INC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 18%), 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

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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 Stairways, INC: 4.4 → 5.5 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 5.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.22× in 2020

American Stairways, INC's TCR rose 1.1 from 4.4 in 2018 to 5.5 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 1.22× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321999 · Memphis, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.5 · 137% of ind

  • DART 5.5 DART
  • RANK #9/13
  • PHOTO Carrollton Reels - A…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~60 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Carrollton Reels - A833 (0.0 TCR gap)

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American Stairways, INC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows American Stairways, INC averages 4.5 TCR (137% of the Applicators, wood, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

American Stairways, INC TCR series: 2018=4.4 · 2019=3.7 · 2020=5.5 · BLS 3.3

Where American Stairways, INC falls in its industry

405 Applicators, wood, manufacturi establishments

Safer than 51% 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 #9 safest of 13 Applicators, wood, manufacturi employers in Tennessee.

American Stairways, INC (60 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 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 American Stairways, INC
American Stairways, INC (60 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 4.7

American Stairways, INC has more employees than the Applicators, wood, manufacturing 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
2020 5.5 5.5 3 0 0
2019 3.7 3.7 2 0 0
2018 4.4 2.9 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321999 · TN · Memphis

405 Applicators, wood, 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 Carrollton Reels - A833 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Little River Hardwoods 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dadant & Sons Inc Candle Factory 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hiawatha Cabinets 4.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE MCMINNVILLE OFFICE 60 FTE
STATE-SIZE West Tennessee Public Utility District 60 FTE
STATE-SIZE SES Construction and Fuel Services LLC 60 FTE
STATE-SIZE RSS - Nashville Roofing & Sheet Metal 60 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 Residence Inn by Marriott Fort Lauderdale / Plantation 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Polytainers, Inc. - Lees Summit 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Hospice Care of Southwest Michigan - Kalamazoo Office 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR General Mills (Buffalo Cereal) 4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Entekra 60 FTE
NAT-SIZE Asplundh Brush Control LLC 185 60 FTE
NAT-SIZE Andersons Clymers Ethanol LLC 60 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cincinnati Paperboard 60 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: 2020, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.