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

AO Smith

Ashland City, TN · ~1,200 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

AO Smith runs at 92% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Water heaters (including nonelectric), household-type, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

AO Smith: 3.0 TCR = 92% of Water heaters (including nonelectric), household-type, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

AO Smith safety composite

AO Smith scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 30%), 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

38/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% 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

−0.5

2023→2024

AO Smith injury rate improved

AO Smith's TCR fell 0.5 from 3.3 in 2023 to 2.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 3.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.51× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=3.3 · 2024=2.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 335228 · Ashland City, TN AT/BELOW-IND · LARGE

Grade C · TCR 3.0 · 92% of ind

  • DART 1.5 DART
  • RANK #3/4
  • PHOTO Rheem Manufacturing
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 67 inj
  • SIZE ~1,200 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Rheem Manufacturing (0.1 TCR gap)

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AO Smith in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows AO Smith averages 3.0 TCR (92% of the 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 TCR series: 2023=3.3 · 2024=2.7 · BLS 3.3

Where AO Smith falls in its industry

23 Water heaters (including nonel establishments

Safer than 30% 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 #3 safest of 4 Water heaters (including nonel employers in Tennessee.

AO Smith (1,200 employees, TCR 3.0) among 15 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 253 employees and a TCR of 2.3 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 16 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
AO Smith (1,200 employees, TCR 3.0) among 15 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 253 employees and a TCR of 2.3

AO Smith has more employees than the Water heaters (including nonelectric), h 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 2.7 1.5 34 0 0
2023 3.3 2.2 33 5 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

335228 · TN · Ashland City

23 Water heaters (including nonelectric), household-type, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 28 employers in Ashland 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 Rheem Manufacturing 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Supply Chain - Camden, SC 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ashland City 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lakes Rinnai America Manufacturing 3.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Yates Services, LLC @ Nissan Smyrna 1,196 FTE
STATE-SIZE thyssenkrupp elevator corp 1,195 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eastman Chemical Company Kinsport TN- BSL 1,206 FTE
STATE-SIZE 8027657-Nike - Shelby 1,206 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1226 247 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1226 243 FTE
CITY-NEAR Arcosa Marine Products 240 FTE
CITY-NEAR Trinity Marine Products, Inc. Plant 1296 220 FTE
NAT-TCR Omni Shoreham Hotel 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR M Health Clinic - Vadnais Hght 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Pfeninger Trucking, Inc. 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Darnold Mechanical, LLC 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE JBS 1,200 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sound Transit 1,200 FTE
NAT-SIZE G.A. West & Co 1,200 FTE
NAT-SIZE SCAN Health Plan 1,200 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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