Industrial supplies, disposable plastics, paper, merchant wholesalers · Tennessee

APT-Chattanooga

Chattanooga, TN · ~23 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

APT-Chattanooga runs at 184% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Industrial supplies, disposable plastics, paper, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

APT-Chattanooga: 4.0 TCR = 184% of Industrial supplies, disposable plastics, paper, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

APT-Chattanooga safety composite

APT-Chattanooga scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 6%), 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).

F

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% 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

APT-Chattanooga: 0.0 → 8.1 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 8.1 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2017

APT-Chattanooga's TCR rose 8.1 from 0.0 in 2016 to 8.1 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424130 · Chattanooga, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.0 · 184% of ind

  • DART 8.1 DART
  • RANK #9/11
  • PHOTO Forman Equipment
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~23 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Forman Equipment (0.0 TCR gap)

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APT-Chattanooga in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows APT-Chattanooga averages 4.0 TCR (184% of the Industrial supplies, disposable plastics, paper, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

APT-Chattanooga TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=8.1 · BLS 2.2

Where APT-Chattanooga falls in its industry

290 Industrial supplies, disposabl establishments

Safer than 33% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.9.

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 11 Industrial supplies, disposabl employers in Tennessee.

APT-Chattanooga (23 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 2.9 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate APT-Chattanooga
APT-Chattanooga (23 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 2.9

APT-Chattanooga has fewer employees than the Industrial supplies, disposable plastics median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.9. 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
2017 8.1 8.1 2 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424130 · TN · Chattanooga

290 Industrial supplies, disposable plastics, paper, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 695 employers in Chattanooga, 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 Forman Equipment 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bunzl York 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Victory Packaging Columbus 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Riverside Paper Co., Inc. Miami 4.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Manchester DREMC 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE East Tennessee Mechanical Contractors 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE CDE - Metro Nashville District Energy System 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Avenue Construction 23 FTE
CITY-NEAR CHATTANOOGA COKE 8,650 FTE
CITY-NEAR CHATTANOOGA FOOD 8,650 FTE
CITY-NEAR USXpress 7,385 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cardiology GB 6,606 FTE
NAT-TCR US Tradeshows LLC 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Richland Center Shopping News 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Golf and Country Club 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Woburn 55 & 78 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Tishler Industries Incorporated 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE TPC 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0614 - Yuba City, Ca 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0533 - Yakima, Wa 23 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: 2017, 2016. 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.