Flat glass (e.g., float, plate) manufacturing · Tennessee

Carlex Nashville

Nashville, TN · ~624 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Carlex Nashville runs at 98% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Flat glass (e.g., float, plate) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Carlex Nashville: 3.3 TCR = 98% of Flat glass (e.g., float, plate) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Carlex Nashville safety composite

Carlex Nashville scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 63% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 1%), 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

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 63% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 1% 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

Carlex Nashville: 2.9 → 3.6 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 3.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.46× in 2017

Carlex Nashville's TCR rose 0.8 from 2.9 in 2016 to 3.6 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 0.46× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 327211 · Nashville, TN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.3 · 98% of ind

  • DART 1.5 DART
  • RANK #4/8
  • PHOTO Guardian Industries …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 50 inj
  • SIZE ~624 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Guardian Industries - DeWitt (0.0 TCR gap)

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Carlex Nashville in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Carlex Nashville averages 3.3 TCR (98% of the Flat glass (e.g., float, plate) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Carlex Nashville TCR series: 2016=2.9 · 2017=3.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Carlex Nashville falls in its industry

105 Flat glass (e.g., float, plate establishments

Safer than 52% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 8 Flat glass (e.g., float, plate employers in Tennessee.

Carlex Nashville (624 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 180 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 0200400600800 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Carlex Nashville
Carlex Nashville (624 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 180 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Carlex Nashville has more employees than the Flat glass (e.g., float, plate) manufact median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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
2017 3.6 1.5 25 4 0
2016 2.9 2.0 25 1 1

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

327211 · TN · Nashville

105 Flat glass (e.g., float, plate) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 1,187 employers in Nashville, 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 Guardian Industries - DeWitt 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cardinal FG -Portage FG 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rossford Float 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cardinal FG -Winlock FG 3.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE JFSNA at Eastman Chemical Kingsport 624 FTE
STATE-SIZE TriStar Southern Hills Medical Center 624 FTE
STATE-SIZE Astec Industries (Manufacturers Rd) 625 FTE
STATE-SIZE BIG G EXPRESS INC 623 FTE
CITY-NEAR Parallon Enterprises, LLC 15,267 FTE
CITY-NEAR METROPOLITAN GOVT. OF NASHVILLE,& DAVIDSON COUNTY 10,278 FTE
CITY-NEAR METRO NASHVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOLS 9,049 FTE
CITY-NEAR TriStar Centennial Medical Center 3,106 FTE
NAT-TCR Prince Minerals LLC- Leesburg 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR CrossCountry Freight Solutions - Bismarck 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Salt Lake City (Utltc) 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Eversource - Newtown Gas 3.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE JW Indianapolis 624 FTE
NAT-SIZE Maiden Upholstery Division 624 FTE
NAT-SIZE ATL - Inflight 624 FTE
NAT-SIZE Analog Devices McCarthy Campus 624 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: 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.