Motor freight carrier, general,long-distance, truckload(TL) · Tennessee

Chattanooga Cha 1

Chattanooga, TN · ~110 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Chattanooga Cha 1 runs at 99% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Motor freight carrier, general,long-distance, truckload(TL) workplace, earning a grade C.

Chattanooga Cha 1: 4.5 TCR = 99% of Motor freight carrier, general,long-distance, truckload(TL) BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Chattanooga Cha 1 safety composite

Chattanooga Cha 1 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 12%), 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

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

Chattanooga Cha 1: 1.1 → 7.9 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 7.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.41× in 2017

Chattanooga Cha 1's TCR rose 6.8 from 1.1 in 2016 to 7.9 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 1.41× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484121 · Chattanooga, TN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 4.5 · 99% of ind

  • DART 6.3 DART
  • RANK #93/128
  • PHOTO NCI - LIBERAL
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~110 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: NCI - LIBERAL (0.0 TCR gap)

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Chattanooga Cha 1 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Chattanooga Cha 1 averages 4.5 TCR (99% of the Motor freight carrier, general,long-distance, truckload(TL) BLS benchmark).

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

Chattanooga Cha 1 TCR series: 2016=1.1 · 2017=7.9 · BLS 4.5

Where Chattanooga Cha 1 falls in its industry

3,252 Motor freight carrier, g establishments

Safer than 30% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #93 safest of 128 Motor freight carrier, g employers in Tennessee.

Chattanooga Cha 1 (110 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Chattanooga Cha 1
Chattanooga Cha 1 (110 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Chattanooga Cha 1 has more employees than the Motor freight carrier, general,lon median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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 7.9 6.3 10 0 0
2016 1.1 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484121 · TN · Chattanooga

3,252 Motor freight carrier, general,long-distance, truckload(TL) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 695 employers in Chattanooga, 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 NCI - LIBERAL 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Augusta 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR TTI- Rapid City, SD 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Olive Branch Terminal 4.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Appalachian Electric Cooperative 110 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sevier County Electric System 110 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nashville Office 110 FTE
STATE-SIZE 0000000301 PUBLIC WORKS-STREETS 110 FTE
CITY-NEAR CHATTANOOGA COKE 8,650 FTE
CITY-NEAR CHATTANOOGA FOOD 8,650 FTE
CITY-NEAR USXpress 7,385 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cardiology GB 6,606 FTE
NAT-TCR N and R of Chillicothe Inc 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 0657 - West Monroe, La 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Accurate Screw Machine 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Porter Health Services 4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Gruber Technical, Inc 110 FTE
NAT-SIZE Avante at Reidsville 110 FTE
NAT-SIZE Burlington (Wabur) 110 FTE
NAT-SIZE Havelock (Nchav) 110 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.