Gas separating machinery manufacturing · Tennessee

Baron USA, LLC.

Cookeville, TN · ~34 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Baron USA, LLC. runs at 293% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Gas separating machinery manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Baron USA, LLC.: 9.7 TCR = 293% of Gas separating machinery manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Baron USA, LLC. safety composite

Baron USA, LLC. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 6%), 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).

F

19/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Baron USA, LLC.: 3.6 → 11.3 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 19.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.59× in 2024

Baron USA, LLC.'s TCR rose 7.7 from 3.6 in 2018 to 11.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 19.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.59× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333998 · Cookeville, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.7 · 293% of ind

  • DART 5.7 DART
  • RANK P6
  • PHOTO Blue Giant Lifts, LLC
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~34 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Blue Giant Lifts, LLC (0.1 TCR gap)

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Baron USA, LLC. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Baron USA, LLC. averages 9.7 TCR (293% of the Gas separating machinery manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Baron USA, LLC. TCR series: 2018=3.6 · 2019=14 · 2021=19.6 · 2022=0 · 2023=9.5 · 2024=11.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Baron USA, LLC. falls in its industry

34 Gas separating machinery manuf establishments

Safer than 6% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Baron USA, LLC. (34 employees, TCR 9.7) among 16 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 145 employees and a TCR of 2.7 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 17 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 024681012 Average employees Total Case Rate Baron USA, LLC.
Baron USA, LLC. (34 employees, TCR 9.7) among 16 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 145 employees and a TCR of 2.7

Baron USA, LLC. has fewer employees than the Gas separating machinery manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.7. 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
2024 11.3 5.7 4 0 0
2023 9.5 3.2 3 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 19.6 9.8 4 0 0
2019 14.0 3.5 4 0 0
2018 3.6 3.6 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333998 · TN · Cookeville

34 Gas separating machinery manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 135 employers in Cookeville, 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 Blue Giant Lifts, LLC 9.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR FANUC - North Campus 11.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR King Cycle Group 7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Productive Robotics LLC 7.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Obion County Hatchery 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE UCEMC Cookeville 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE RKA Construction, LLC 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE AGM-Tennessee 34 FTE
CITY-NEAR CSC -COPORATE SERVICE CENTER 974 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cookeville CSC 908 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cookeville CKV 4 855 FTE
CITY-NEAR PUTNAM COUNTY LOCAL GOVERNMENT 773 FTE
NAT-TCR 107 Almeda 9.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Witman Ranch Inc. 9.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 4026 Tul92 9.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Western Metal Service Inc 9.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Floor Solutions, LLC 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Honeybear Marketing LLC 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brookdale Fairhaven 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE A.M. Logging, LLC 34 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.