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

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.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.3
avg TCR · per 100 workers
3.3
industry benchmark (BLS)
9
recordable injuries tracked

Grade compares Ball Ground's OSHA Total Case Rate of 4.3 to the Awnings and canopies, outdoor, made from purchased fabrics BLS benchmark of 3.3 (132% of benchmark) across 8 years of Form 300A filings (2016–2024). <a href="/methodology">See methodology</a> for reporting-limitation caveats.

Injury rate over time

Ball Ground's yearly Total Case Rate, against the 3.3 industry benchmark.

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Total Case Rate (recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers), OSHA ITA Form 300A. Industry benchmark: BLS IIF, NAICS 314910.

Where Ball Ground falls in its industry

148 Awnings and canopies, outdoor, establishments

Safer than 53% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

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.

Trend analysis for Ball Ground

Between 2016 and 2023, Ball Ground's Total Case Rate improved from 16.0 to 3.4 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers, a 79% decrease across 7 years of OSHA reporting.

The safest year on record was 2018, at a TCR of 0.0, while 2016 saw the highest rate, at 16.0, a spread of 16.0 points between the best and worst reporting years. That's a wide swing relative to the establishment's overall rate, worth checking the year-by-year table below for whether a single severe year is driving the average, rather than a sustained trend.

Summed across those 8 reporting years, Ball Ground recorded 9 total injuries and illnesses, with no fatalities reported in any of those years. Readers comparing establishments should weigh the 8-year trend above alongside establishment size, since a larger workforce naturally accumulates more raw incidents even at a lower per-100-worker rate.

Verify This Employer with OSHA

The 9 injuries shown on this page for Ball Ground are sourced from its own 8 years of mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source, name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.

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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 314910 - Awnings and canopies, outdoor, made from purchased fabrics.

DART Rate, Transparent Calculation (2023)

What is the DART rate formula?

DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.

1 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 59,280 hours worked = 3.37 DART

Methodology: 29 CFR 1904, OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping

Cross-Validating Context, Establishment vs Industry vs State

Benchmark TCR Source
Ball Ground (this establishment) 4.34 OSHA ITA Form 300A, 8-year avg
Awnings and canopies, outdoor, made from purchased fabrics industry avg 3.30 BLS IIF, NAICS 314910
Georgia state avg (all industries) 4.11 OSHA ITA, state-level rollup

Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program

Reportable Incident Timeline

Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by Ball Ground to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.

Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) - inspection case-number records

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

What this grade means for you

Use this grade as a relative read on Ball Ground's reported OSHA injury record versus its Awnings and canopies, outdoor, made from purchased fabrics peers, not a verdict on whether any single site is safe today.

  • At 132% of the Awnings and canopies, outdoor, made from purchased fabrics benchmark, Ball Ground reports more injuries than typical peers, ask specifically how the employer is reducing them. Know your rights
  • Judge this record against the wider Awnings and canopies, outdoor, made from purchased fabrics sector, where injury rates vary widely, before comparing it in isolation. See the industry
  • Grades reflect 2016–2024 filings; check the latest establishment record straight from OSHA, or look up a different employer. Look up another

Safety grades reflect employers' self-reported OSHA Form 300A filings from 2016 to 2024 and can lag current conditions. A grade is not a guarantee that any specific workplace is safe or unsafe today. See our methodology and disclaimer.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Ball Ground's safety grade?
Ball Ground has a safety grade of D (Poor Safety Record). This grade is based on their average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 4.3 compared to the BLS industry benchmark of 3.3 for Awnings and canopies, outdoor, made from purchased fabrics.
How many injuries has Ball Ground reported?
Ball Ground has reported 9 total injuries and 0 fatalities across 8 years of OSHA data (2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016). This data comes from mandatory OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA) reports.

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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. Retrieved and formatted by PlainSafetyScore Editorial

Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.