Explosives manufacturing · Tennessee

BAE Systems

Kingsport, TN · ~912 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

BAE Systems runs at 72% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Explosives manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

BAE Systems: 2.4 TCR = 72% of Explosives manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

BAE Systems safety composite

BAE Systems scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 44%), 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

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% 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%).

Rising injury rate

BAE Systems: 1.0 → 1.4 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 4.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.44× in 2023

BAE Systems's TCR rose 0.4 from 1.0 in 2019 to 1.4 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 4.5 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.44× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325920 · Kingsport, TN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.4 · 72% of ind

  • DART 1.0 DART
  • RANK #2/6
  • PHOTO Maxam North America …
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 58 inj
  • SIZE ~912 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Maxam North America Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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BAE Systems in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows BAE Systems averages 2.4 TCR (72% of the Explosives manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

BAE Systems TCR series: 2019=1 · 2020=3.6 · 2021=4.5 · 2022=1.4 · 2023=1.4 · BLS 3.3

Where BAE Systems falls in its industry

78 Explosives manufacturing establishments

Safer than 51% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

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 6 Explosives manufacturing employers in Tennessee.

BAE Systems (912 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 80 employees and a TCR of 2.4 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 02004006008001,000 0246 Average employees Total Case Rate BAE Systems
BAE Systems (912 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 80 employees and a TCR of 2.4

BAE Systems has more employees than the Explosives manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.4. 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 1.4 1.0 11 1 0
2022 1.4 1.4 12 0 0
2021 4.5 4.0 15 25 0
2020 3.6 3.3 11 24 0
2019 1.0 0.4 9 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325920 · TN · Kingsport

78 Explosives manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 152 employers in Kingsport, 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 Maxam North America Inc 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hanley Industries 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Austin Star Detonator Company 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Teledyne RISI Inc. 2.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Advance Financial 912 FTE
STATE-SIZE Volunteer Behavioral Health Care Services 913 FTE
STATE-SIZE METHODIST MEDICAL CENTER 913 FTE
STATE-SIZE Spring Hill LOC 909 FTE
CITY-NEAR Eastman Kingsport Site 7,258 FTE
CITY-NEAR Holston Valley Medical Center 1,733 FTE
CITY-NEAR Eastman Chemical Company Kinsport TN- BSL 1,206 FTE
CITY-NEAR BLUE RIDGE MEDICAL MANAGEMENT CORPORATION - VA 1,073 FTE
NAT-TCR Long Island Precast, Inc. 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Essendant: Boston OE 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Valley Dairy Restaurant #4 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Hampton Inn & Suites Boynton Beach FL 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE 07-GIDDINGS 912 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gastonia Components and Logistics - Tulip 912 FTE
NAT-SIZE Continental Structural Plastics - Carey 912 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tippecanoe County Government 912 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, 2022, 2021, 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.