Awnings and canopies, outdoor, made from purchased fabrics · Georgia

Ball Ground

Ball Ground, GA · ~26 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ball Ground runs at 132% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Awnings and canopies, outdoor, made from purchased fabrics workplace, earning a grade D.

Ball Ground: 4.3 TCR = 132% of Awnings and canopies, outdoor, made from purchased fabrics BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ball Ground safety composite

Ball Ground scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 56% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 37%), 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

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% 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

−12.6

2016→2023

Ball Ground injury rate improved

Ball Ground's TCR fell 12.6 from 16.0 in 2016 to 3.4 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2016 at 16.0 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.78× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=16.0 · 2017=4.0 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=11.3 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=3.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 314910 · Ball Ground, GA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.3 · 132% of ind

  • DART 3.4 DART
  • RANK #4/7
  • PHOTO Hubco-Main plant
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~26 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hubco-Main plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ball Ground in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ball Ground averages 4.3 TCR (132% of the Awnings and canopies, outdoor, made from purchased fabrics BLS benchmark).

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

Ball Ground TCR series: 2016=16 · 2017=4 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=11.3 · 2022=0 · 2023=3.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Ball Ground falls in its industry

141 Awnings and canopies, outdoor, establishments

Safer than 56% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Georgia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 7 Awnings and canopies, outdoor, employers in Georgia.

Ball Ground (26 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 4.9 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Ball Ground
Ball Ground (26 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Ball Ground has fewer employees than the Awnings and canopies, outdoor, made from median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.9. 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 3.4 3.4 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 11.3 11.3 3 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 4.0 4.0 1 0 0
2016 16.0 8.0 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

314910 · GA · Ball Ground

141 Awnings and canopies, outdoor, made from purchased fabrics employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 14,941 rated employers in Georgia with headcount on file · 31 employers in Ball Ground, GA · 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 Hubco-Main plant 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR A. Rifkin Co 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Superior Awning Inc 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR AmeriGlobe, LLC Eunice 4.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE FPL Food Chatel Farms 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Unlimited Contract Services - Pine Grove, LA 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pilgrim's Pride Athens Hatchery 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hawkins Logging & Timber Co LLC 26 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chart 363 FTE
CITY-NEAR Meyn America LLC 256 FTE
CITY-NEAR CAIRE - Manufacturing 218 FTE
CITY-NEAR Advanced Disposal - Ball Ground 142 FTE
NAT-TCR Brookdale Fillmore Pond 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Martinsburg Wv Book - Baker Rd 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Broadbase INC DBA Jiffy Lube 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR D'Allessandro Corp 4.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE CPF1 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fairfield Inn and Suites 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Weston Company 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE American Door & Glass SW VA, Inc 26 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, 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.