Employer · Tennessee

Charles Hampton's A-1 Signs, Inc

Burns, TN · ~31 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Charles Hampton's A-1 Signs, Inc runs at 143% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade D.

Charles Hampton's A-1 Signs, Inc: 4.7 TCR = 143% of industry BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Charles Hampton's A-1 Signs, Inc safety composite

Charles Hampton's A-1 Signs, Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 15%), 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

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% 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

Charles Hampton's A-1 Signs, Inc: 6.7 → 9.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 9.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.98× in 2024

Charles Hampton's A-1 Signs, Inc's TCR rose 2.6 from 6.7 in 2018 to 9.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.98× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 339950 · Burns, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.7 · 143% of ind

  • DART 4.6 DART
  • RANK #5/8
  • PHOTO Nagle Signs Inc.
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~31 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Nagle Signs Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Charles Hampton's A-1 Signs, Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Charles Hampton's A-1 Signs, Inc averages 4.7 TCR (143% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

Charles Hampton's A-1 Signs, Inc TCR series: 2018=6.7 · 2019=3.4 · 2020=0 · 2023=4.3 · 2024=9.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Charles Hampton's A-1 Signs, Inc falls in its industry

405 industry establishments

Safer than 38% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 8 industry employers in Tennessee.

Charles Hampton's A-1 Signs, Inc (31 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 0100200300 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Charles Hampton's A-1 Signs, Inc
Charles Hampton's A-1 Signs, Inc (31 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Charles Hampton's A-1 Signs, Inc has fewer employees than the industry median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 9.2 4.6 1 1 0
2023 4.3 4.3 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 3.4 3.4 1 0 0
2018 6.7 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

339950 · TN · Burns

405 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 4 employers in Burns, 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 Nagle Signs Inc. 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fairmont Sign Company 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gregory, Inc. 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR B2Sign, Inc. 4.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Humboldt Hatchery 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cairo Farmers Gin, LLC 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE 0000000932 WATER/SEWER-SEWER FCLTY MAINT 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE George W Reagan Company 31 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mirror Lake Recovery Center 113 FTE
CITY-NEAR Middle Tennessee Lumber Company, Inc. - MT 81 FTE
CITY-NEAR Charles Hamptons A-1 Signs, Inc 31 FTE
NAT-TCR Pascal Steel Corporation 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Kayser Automotive Systems 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Mount Vernon Ladies' Association 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Bradley Services, Inc 4.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Skagit County Crisis Center 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE J C Porter Construction 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Menasha Packaging Company - Lakeville Kitting 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kerwin Plumbing & Heating, Inc. 31 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, 2020, 2019, 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.