Polyurethane foam products manufacturing · Tennessee

Bridgestone APM FPD Plant #4

Dickson, TN · ~198 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bridgestone APM FPD Plant #4 runs at 137% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Polyurethane foam products manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Bridgestone APM FPD Plant #4: 4.5 TCR = 137% of Polyurethane foam products manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bridgestone APM FPD Plant #4 safety composite

Bridgestone APM FPD Plant #4 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 20%), 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

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

−2.2

2016→2021

Bridgestone APM FPD Plant #4 injury rate improved

Bridgestone APM FPD Plant #4's TCR fell 2.2 from 5.7 in 2016 to 3.5 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 6.0 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.78× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=5.7 · 2017=3.1 · 2018=3.1 · 2019=5.6 · 2020=6.0 · 2021=3.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326150 · Dickson, TN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.5 · 137% of ind

  • DART 3.5 DART
  • RANK #17/20
  • PHOTO Prestige Fabricator'…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 52 inj
  • SIZE ~198 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Prestige Fabricator's Inc. Plant 1 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bridgestone APM FPD Plant #4 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bridgestone APM FPD Plant #4 averages 4.5 TCR (137% of the Polyurethane foam products manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Bridgestone APM FPD Plant #4 TCR series: 2016=5.7 · 2017=3.1 · 2018=3.1 · 2019=5.6 · 2020=6 · 2021=3.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Bridgestone APM FPD Plant #4 falls in its industry

474 Polyurethane foam products man establishments

Safer than 30% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #17 safest of 20 Polyurethane foam products man employers in Tennessee.

Bridgestone APM FPD Plant #4 (198 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.1 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 050100150200250 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Bridgestone APM FPD Plant #4
Bridgestone APM FPD Plant #4 (198 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.1

Bridgestone APM FPD Plant #4 has more employees than the Polyurethane foam products manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.1. 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
2021 3.5 3.5 7 0 0
2020 6.0 4.0 9 3 0
2019 5.6 4.7 13 0 0
2018 3.1 1.8 6 1 0
2017 3.1 1.8 7 0 0
2016 5.7 2.1 10 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326150 · TN · Dickson

474 Polyurethane foam products manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 73 employers in Dickson, 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 Prestige Fabricator's Inc. Plant 1 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Future Foam Inc. Plant 5 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR RFC CT 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Riverside Pouring Plant 4.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE WM 8256 198 FTE
STATE-SIZE Varsity Spirit, LLC - Gym 198 FTE
STATE-SIZE Glenn E. Mitchell & Company 197 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hail & Cotton, LLC 199 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dickson County Board of Education 1,095 FTE
CITY-NEAR TriStar Horizon Medical Center 773 FTE
CITY-NEAR Express Employment Professonals 500 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dickson County Government 413 FTE
NAT-TCR West Michigan Uniform 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Saint Therese at Oxbow Lake 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Elbeco Incorporated 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 149 Austin Gallery 4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE CertainTeed - Avery 198 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hc123-123-Anoka Rehab & Living 198 FTE
NAT-SIZE PAT Patterson DC 198 FTE
NAT-SIZE Newington Rapid Recovery Rehab Center 198 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.