Employer · Tennessee

AW of Chattanooga

Chattanooga, TN · ~108 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.4
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

AW of Chattanooga runs at 130% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade D.

AW of Chattanooga: 3.4 TCR = 130% of industry BLS 2.6 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

AW of Chattanooga safety composite

AW of Chattanooga scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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

63/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

−2.6

2019→2023

AW of Chattanooga injury rate improved

AW of Chattanooga's TCR fell 2.6 from 4.7 in 2019 to 2.1 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2019 at 4.7 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.62× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=4.7 · 2020=3.4 · 2023=2.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562111 · Chattanooga, TN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 3.4 · 130% of ind

  • DART 2.1 DART
  • RANK #22/43
  • PHOTO Republic Services Ja…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~108 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Republic Services Jacksonville (0.0 TCR gap)

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AW of Chattanooga in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows AW of Chattanooga averages 3.4 TCR (130% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

AW of Chattanooga TCR series: 2019=4.7 · 2020=3.4 · 2023=2.1 · BLS 2.6

Where AW of Chattanooga falls in its industry

2,322 industry establishments

Safer than 70% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #22 safest of 43 industry employers in Tennessee.

AW of Chattanooga (108 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 5.1 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 AW of Chattanooga
AW of Chattanooga (108 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 5.1

AW of Chattanooga has more employees than the industry median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.1. 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
2023 2.1 2.1 3 0 0
2020 3.4 3.4 3 0 0
2019 4.7 4.7 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562111 · TN · Chattanooga

2,322 industry 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 Republic Services Jacksonville 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Advanced Disposal - Jacksonville Commercial Hauling 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR GreenWaste of Palo Alto, LLC 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Coastal Waste & Recyling of Miami-Dade County, LLC 3.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Tosh Farms 108 FTE
STATE-SIZE Montgomery Martin Contractors, LLC 108 FTE
STATE-SIZE Murfreesboro, TN Office CS 108 FTE
STATE-SIZE Memphis Oilseeds 108 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 Truck-Lite Co., LLC 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Fusion Imaging 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Bocks Board Packaging of Texas 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Union Mission, Inc. 3.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Cardinal Health Earth City 108 FTE
NAT-SIZE BT St Rose - New Orleans 108 FTE
NAT-SIZE Optima Chemical Group, LLC 108 FTE
NAT-SIZE Altoona Nursing and Rehabilitation Center 108 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: 2023, 2020, 2019. 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.