Iron foundries · Tennessee

Chattanooga - Motorwheel LLC

Chattanooga, TN · ~63 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Chattanooga - Motorwheel LLC runs at 178% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Iron foundries workplace, earning a grade D.

Chattanooga - Motorwheel LLC: 5.9 TCR = 178% of Iron foundries BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Chattanooga - Motorwheel LLC safety composite

Chattanooga - Motorwheel LLC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 58% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 47%), 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

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 5.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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 - Motorwheel LLC: 0.0 → 4.9 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 15.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.55× in 2024

Chattanooga - Motorwheel LLC's TCR rose 4.9 from 0.0 in 2020 to 4.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 15.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.55× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331511 · Chattanooga, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.9 · 178% of ind

  • DART 3.3 DART
  • RANK #5/8
  • PHOTO Waupaca Foundry, Inc…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~63 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Waupaca Foundry, Inc. Plant 5 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Chattanooga - Motorwheel LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Chattanooga - Motorwheel LLC averages 5.9 TCR (178% of the Iron foundries BLS benchmark).

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

Chattanooga - Motorwheel LLC TCR series: 2020=0 · 2021=3.6 · 2023=15.1 · 2024=4.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Chattanooga - Motorwheel LLC falls in its industry

272 Iron foundries establishments

Safer than 58% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 7.2.

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 Iron foundries employers in Tennessee.

Chattanooga - Motorwheel LLC (63 employees, TCR 5.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 112 employees and a TCR of 7.2 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 0200400600 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Chattanooga - Motorwheel LLC
Chattanooga - Motorwheel LLC (63 employees, TCR 5.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 112 employees and a TCR of 7.2

Chattanooga - Motorwheel LLC has fewer employees than the Iron foundries median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 7.2. 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 4.9 3.3 3 0 0
2023 15.1 6.8 11 0 0
2021 3.6 3.6 2 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331511 · TN · Chattanooga

272 Iron foundries 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 Waupaca Foundry, Inc. Plant 5 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Golden's Foundry & Machine 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Neenah Foundry 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Accurate Castings, Inc 5.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE ROSE CONSTRUCTION, INC. 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE Neuhoff 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE American Constructors, Inc. 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE CHERRY PAINTING COMPANY, INC dba CHERRY COATINGS NASHVILLE 63 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 10293 Reno 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Fann Contracting, Inc. 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Marck Industries of NW Arkansas LLC 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Woodcraft Industries, Inc 5.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Meadowbrook Senior Living 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE CA041BTC 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kaiser Electric of Central Missouri 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE Arrive Palm Springs 63 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, 2021, 2020. 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.