Helicopters manufacturing · Tennessee

Bell - BHT Piney Flats

Piney Flats, TN · ~414 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bell - BHT Piney Flats runs at 28% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Helicopters manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Bell - BHT Piney Flats: 0.9 TCR = 28% of Helicopters manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bell - BHT Piney Flats safety composite

Bell - BHT Piney Flats scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

71/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 0.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% 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

−1.6

2018→2024

Bell - BHT Piney Flats injury rate improved

Bell - BHT Piney Flats's TCR fell 1.6 from 1.8 in 2018 to 0.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 1.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=1.8 · 2023=0.7 · 2024=0.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336411 · Piney Flats, TN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.9 · 28% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK P75
  • PHOTO General Atomics - Ad…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~414 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: General Atomics - Adelanto - AA13 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bell - BHT Piney Flats in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bell - BHT Piney Flats averages 0.9 TCR (28% of the Helicopters manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Bell - BHT Piney Flats TCR series: 2018=1.8 · 2023=0.7 · 2024=0.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Bell - BHT Piney Flats falls in its industry

390 Helicopters manufacturing establishments

Safer than 75% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Bell - BHT Piney Flats (414 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 151 employees and a TCR of 1.7 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 02,0004,0006,0008,00010,000 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Bell - BHT Piney Flats
Bell - BHT Piney Flats (414 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 151 employees and a TCR of 1.7

Bell - BHT Piney Flats has more employees than the Helicopters manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.7. 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 0.2 0.0 1 0 0
2023 0.7 0.0 3 0 0
2018 1.8 0.5 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336411 · TN · Piney Flats

390 Helicopters manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 26 employers in Piney Flats, 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 General Atomics - Adelanto - AA13 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Machine Shop 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Honda Aircraft Company, LLC 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bell Plant 2 0.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Williams Sausage 414 FTE
STATE-SIZE Commercial Vehicle Group - Vonore 414 FTE
STATE-SIZE City of Hendersonville 414 FTE
STATE-SIZE Portland - 200 Challenger Dr. and Ancillary Resin Bldg 413 FTE
CITY-NEAR HSN Piney Flats 878 FTE
CITY-NEAR HSN Piney Flats TN 587 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bell Helicopter Piney Flats 392 FTE
CITY-NEAR TN Facility-KPS Global 196 FTE
NAT-TCR UPT Phoenix 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Mabank Packaging and Service Center 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Greenberg Casework Company 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Rogue Mechanical Insulation 0.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE A.J Kirkwood & Associates, Inc. 414 FTE
NAT-SIZE Baker Electric 414 FTE
NAT-SIZE Burlington 414 FTE
NAT-SIZE Firestone Walker Inc. -- Paso Robles CA 414 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, 2018. 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.