Manufacturer of Water Heaters · Tennessee

Ashland City

Ashland City, TN · ~1,200 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ashland City runs at 75% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Manufacturer of Water Heaters workplace, earning a grade B.

Ashland City: 2.5 TCR = 75% of Manufacturer of Water Heaters BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ashland City safety composite

Ashland City scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 43%), 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

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% 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

−1.3

2016→2022

Ashland City injury rate improved

Ashland City's TCR fell 1.3 from 3.6 in 2016 to 2.3 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2016 at 3.6 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.48× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=3.6 · 2017=3.4 · 2018=2.8 · 2019=1.8 · 2020=1.8 · 2021=1.8 · 2022=2.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade B · TCR 2.5 · 75% of ind

  • DART 1.2 DART
  • RANK #2/4
  • PHOTO Supply Chain - Camde…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 229 inj
  • SIZE ~1,200 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Supply Chain - Camden, SC (0.2 TCR gap)

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Ashland City in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ashland City averages 2.5 TCR (75% of the Manufacturer of Water Heaters BLS benchmark).

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

Ashland City TCR series: 2016=3.6 · 2017=3.4 · 2018=2.8 · 2019=1.8 · 2020=1.8 · 2021=1.8 · 2022=2.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Ashland City falls in its industry

23 Manufacturer of Water Heaters establishments

Safer than 43% 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 #2 safest of 4 Manufacturer of Water Heaters employers in Tennessee.

Ashland City (1,200 employees, TCR 2.5) 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 Ashland City
Ashland City (1,200 employees, TCR 2.5) among 14 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 253 employees and a TCR of 2.3

Ashland City has more employees than the Manufacturer of Water Heaters 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
2022 2.3 1.2 24 3 0
2021 1.8 0.9 23 0 0
2020 1.8 0.6 24 0 0
2019 1.8 0.8 22 0 0
2018 2.8 1.0 38 0 0
2017 3.4 2.0 49 0 0
2016 3.6 2.5 49 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

335228 · TN · Ashland City

23 Manufacturer of Water Heaters 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 Supply Chain - Camden, SC 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR AO Smith Fairview Ave 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Samsung Electronics America, Inc. 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rheem Manufacturing 2.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE AO Smith 1,200 FTE
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
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 Ryerson - Charlotte Processing 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR OH - 690 Crescentville 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Richwood #2 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR One Pasco Center 2.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE G.A. West & Co 1,200 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sound Transit 1,200 FTE
NAT-SIZE JBS 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: 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.