Liners, industrial, fabricated metal plate work, manufacturing · Tennessee

Avkem US Mfg HQ

Lenoir City, TN · ~22 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Avkem US Mfg HQ runs at 65% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Liners, industrial, fabricated metal plate work, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Avkem US Mfg HQ: 2.1 TCR = 65% of Liners, industrial, fabricated metal plate work, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Avkem US Mfg HQ safety composite

Avkem US Mfg HQ scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 81% 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).

C

72/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% 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%).

TCR Δ

−6.4

2016→2018

Avkem US Mfg HQ injury rate improved

Avkem US Mfg HQ's TCR fell 6.4 from 6.4 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2016 at 6.4 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=6.4 · 2017=0.0 · 2018=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332313 · Lenoir City, TN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.1 · 65% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #7/18
  • PHOTO Petersen Inc.
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~22 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Petersen Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Avkem US Mfg HQ in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Avkem US Mfg HQ averages 2.1 TCR (65% of the Liners, industrial, fabricated metal plate work, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Avkem US Mfg HQ TCR series: 2016=6.4 · 2017=0 · 2018=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Avkem US Mfg HQ falls in its industry

449 Liners, industrial, fabricated establishments

Safer than 78% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 18 Liners, industrial, fabricated employers in Tennessee.

Avkem US Mfg HQ (22 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Avkem US Mfg HQ
Avkem US Mfg HQ (22 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Avkem US Mfg HQ has fewer employees than the Liners, industrial, fabricated metal pla median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 6.4 6.4 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332313 · TN · Lenoir City

449 Liners, industrial, fabricated metal plate work, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 41 employers in Lenoir 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 Petersen Inc. 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR C&H Solutions HQ 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR R&N Manufacturing 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Marks Metal Technology, INC 2.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Tosh Pork Herrondale 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Longtown Supply Co. Inc. 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Shelbyville Growout 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southwest Tennessee EMC - Henderson 22 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hubbell Lenoir City, Inc 329 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 741 329 FTE
CITY-NEAR H.T.Hackney 299 FTE
CITY-NEAR 741 298 FTE
NAT-TCR Shopko Hometown #646 (Standish, MI) 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR NGC- Pryor Plant 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR DBA Ashley Furniture Homestores- Palm Desert 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Hudson-Sharp 2.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Deppe Mold & Tooling, Inc. 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Spindler Bulk Transport, Inc. 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Colby Retirement Community 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Farmers Co-OP 22 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, 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.