Confectionery, nonchocolate, manufacturing · Tennessee

Charms

Covington, TN · ~365 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.5
Avg TCR
4.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Charms runs at 131% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Confectionery, nonchocolate, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Charms: 5.5 TCR = 131% of Confectionery, nonchocolate, manufacturing BLS 4.2 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Charms safety composite

Charms scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 37%), 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

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% 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

−5.7

2016→2024

Charms injury rate improved

Charms's TCR fell 5.7 from 9.4 in 2016 to 3.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 10.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.34× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=9.4 · 2017=10.2 · 2018=4.5 · 2019=4.1 · 2020=7.5 · 2021=3.0 · 2022=3.7 · 2023=3.2 · 2024=3.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311340 · Covington, TN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.5 · 131% of ind

  • DART 1.9 DART
  • RANK #5/5
  • PHOTO Paulaur Corporation
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 149 inj
  • SIZE ~365 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Paulaur Corporation (0.1 TCR gap)

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Charms in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Charms averages 5.5 TCR (131% of the Confectionery, nonchocolate, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Charms TCR series: 2016=9.4 · 2017=10.2 · 2018=4.5 · 2019=4.1 · 2020=7.5 · 2021=3 · 2022=3.7 · 2023=3.2 · 2024=3.8 · BLS 4.2

Where Charms falls in its industry

123 Confectionery, nonchocolate, m establishments

Safer than 37% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

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 5 Confectionery, nonchocolate, m employers in Tennessee.

Charms (365 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 169 employees and a TCR of 3.7 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 0200400600800 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Charms
Charms (365 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 169 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Charms has more employees than the Confectionery, nonchocolate, manufacturi median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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 3.8 1.9 14 2 0
2023 3.2 2.7 18 0 0
2022 3.7 3.5 18 0 0
2021 3.0 2.0 10 2 0
2020 7.5 3.3 19 4 0
2019 4.1 2.9 14 0 0
2018 4.5 3.6 15 0 0
2017 10.2 5.0 18 13 0
2016 9.4 5.5 23 6 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311340 · TN · Covington

123 Confectionery, nonchocolate, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 34 employers in Covington, 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 Paulaur Corporation 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Spangler Candy Company- West Campus 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR YouBar Inc 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tootsie Roll Industries, LLC 5.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Civil Constructors LLC 365 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 5196 365 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2322 365 FTE
STATE-SIZE 742 365 FTE
CITY-NEAR Covington 771 FTE
CITY-NEAR Baptist Memorial Hospital Tipton 339 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 93 307 FTE
CITY-NEAR 93 291 FTE
NAT-TCR Store #48 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Dickerson Mechanical, Inc. 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR West Central Conservancy District 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Wayside Nurseries Inc 5.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE BWXT NOG-Euclid 365 FTE
NAT-SIZE John Deere Thibodaux 365 FTE
NAT-SIZE LEHSC Lehigh Service Center 365 FTE
NAT-SIZE Intervet Inc. (DBA - Merck AH) - Millsboro Sites 365 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 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.