Hot water heaters (including nonelectric), household-type, manufacturing · Tennessee

AO Smith Fairview Ave

Johnson City, TN · ~948 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

AO Smith Fairview Ave runs at 68% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Hot water heaters (including nonelectric), household-type, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

AO Smith Fairview Ave: 2.3 TCR = 68% of Hot water heaters (including nonelectric), household-type, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

AO Smith Fairview Ave safety composite

AO Smith Fairview Ave scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 59% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 48%), 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

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% 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

−0.8

2016→2024

AO Smith Fairview Ave injury rate improved

AO Smith Fairview Ave's TCR fell 0.8 from 2.6 in 2016 to 1.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 2.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.51× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=2.6 · 2017=2.9 · 2018=1.8 · 2019=2.3 · 2020=1.6 · 2021=2.2 · 2022=2.4 · 2023=2.5 · 2024=1.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 335228 · Johnson City, TN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.3 · 68% of ind

  • DART 1.1 DART
  • RANK #1/4
  • PHOTO Samsung Electronics …
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 185 inj
  • SIZE ~948 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Samsung Electronics America, Inc. (0.1 TCR gap)

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AO Smith Fairview Ave in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows AO Smith Fairview Ave averages 2.3 TCR (68% of the Hot water heaters (including nonelectric), household-type, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

AO Smith Fairview Ave TCR series: 2016=2.6 · 2017=2.9 · 2018=1.8 · 2019=2.3 · 2020=1.6 · 2021=2.2 · 2022=2.4 · 2023=2.5 · 2024=1.9 · BLS 3.3

Where AO Smith Fairview Ave falls in its industry

23 Hot water heaters (including n establishments

Safer than 48% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 4 Hot water heaters (including n employers in Tennessee.

AO Smith Fairview Ave (948 employees, TCR 2.3) among 14 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 253 employees and a TCR of 2.3 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 15 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 AO Smith Fairview Ave
AO Smith Fairview Ave (948 employees, TCR 2.3) among 14 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 253 employees and a TCR of 2.3

AO Smith Fairview Ave has more employees than the Hot water heaters (including nonelectric median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.3. 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 1.9 1.1 19 1 0
2023 2.5 1.6 26 2 0
2022 2.4 1.5 22 2 0
2021 2.2 1.2 21 2 0
2020 1.6 0.6 16 0 0
2019 2.3 1.4 19 1 0
2018 1.8 0.9 15 1 0
2017 2.9 1.9 25 2 0
2016 2.6 1.3 22 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

335228 · TN · Johnson City

23 Hot water heaters (including nonelectric), household-type, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 177 employers in Johnson City, 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 Samsung Electronics America, Inc. 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ashland City 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Supply Chain - Camden, SC 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR ISE Sturtevant 1.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE TJX Companies Memphis Fulfillment Center 949 FTE
STATE-SIZE 087-DC087 946 FTE
STATE-SIZE Asurion 952 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tennova Healthcare 944 FTE
CITY-NEAR East Tennessee State University 4,802 FTE
CITY-NEAR Johnson City Medical Center 2,099 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ballad Health 1,586 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mountain States Health Alliance 1,033 FTE
NAT-TCR Streck Campus 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Apex Paper Box Co.- Walworth 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Tulsa - BMD 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Blevins 05 Rocky Mount 2.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE IL Dept. of Revenue - Springfield 948 FTE
NAT-SIZE Howmet Aerospace Whitehall Operations- Whitehall Castings Plant 1 and 3 948 FTE
NAT-SIZE Warren Plant 948 FTE
NAT-SIZE Chobani ID Plant 948 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 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.