Foam plastics products (except polystrene) manufacturing · Tennessee

Austin Foam Plastics Inc-Nashville

Name: Austin Foam Plastics Inc-Nashville Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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La Vergne, TN · ~60 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

A
Excellent Safety Record: 0.5
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Austin Foam Plastics Inc-Nashville runs at 15% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Foam plastics products (except polystrene) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Austin Foam Plastics Inc-Nashville: 0.5 TCR = 15% of Foam plastics products (except polystrene) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Austin Foam Plastics Inc-Nashville safety composite

Austin Foam Plastics Inc-Nashville scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 97% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

72/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): A 0.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 97% of industry peers
DART rate: C 0.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% 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

Austin Foam Plastics Inc-Nashville: 0.0 → 1.0 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 1.0 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2018

Austin Foam Plastics Inc-Nashville's TCR rose 1.0 from 0.0 in 2017 to 1.0 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326150 · La Vergne, TN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.5 · 15% of ind

DART 1.0 DART
RANK #2/20
PHOTO Atlas Roofing Corpor…
BOOK 2y book
INJ 1 inj
SIZE ~60 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Atlas Roofing Corporation (0.0 TCR gap)

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Atlas Roofing

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Soundcoat - Ir

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559158

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Morristown Bra

0.4

What this shows Austin Foam Plastics Inc-Nashville averages 0.5 TCR (15% of the Foam plastics products (except polystrene) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Austin Foam Plastics Inc-Nashville TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=1 · BLS 3.3

Where Austin Foam Plastics Inc-Nashville falls in its industry

474 Foam plastics products (except establishments

Safer than 97% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

Grade A

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 20 Foam plastics products (except employers in Tennessee.

Austin Foam Plastics Inc-Nashville (60 employees, TCR 0.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.1

Austin Foam Plastics Inc-Nashville has fewer employees than the Foam plastics products (except polystren median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.1. 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
2018	1.0	1.0	1	0	0
2017	0.0	0.0	0	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326150 · TN · La Vergne

474 Foam plastics products (except polystrene) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 93 employers in La Vergne, TN · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Atlas Roofing Corporation	LAGRANGE, GA	0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Soundcoat - Irvine	IRVINE, CA	0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	559158	COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA	0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Morristown Branch Plant	MORRISTOWN, TN	0.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE	MCMINNVILLE OFFICE	MCMINNVILLE	60 FTE
STATE-SIZE	West Tennessee Public Utility District	HUNTINGDON	60 FTE
STATE-SIZE	SES Construction and Fuel Services LLC	OAK RIDGE	60 FTE
STATE-SIZE	RSS - Nashville Roofing & Sheet Metal	NASHVILLE	60 FTE
CITY-NEAR	SVP Worldwide	La Vergne	1,010 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Amazon.com Services LLC - BNA9	La Vergne	773 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Quanta Manufacturing Nashville LLC	La Vergne	678 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Saks.com LLC	La Vergne	666 FTE
NAT-TCR	City Hall-FM	Long Beach, CA	0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	W. 30th Street Substation	New York, NY	0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Aleris International Imco Recycling of Ohio	Uhrichsville, OH	0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Lake Charles Terminal	Westlake, LA	0.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Avery Dennison - Graphic Solutions Division - Lowell Facility	Lowell, IN	60 FTE
NAT-SIZE	RealD Boulder	Boulder, CO	60 FTE
NAT-SIZE	The Arthur Louis Steel Company	Geneva, OH	60 FTE
NAT-SIZE	First Student, Inc. Location #20988 Phoenix	Phoenix, AZ	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: 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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