Automobile seat frames, metal, manufacturing · Tennessee

Chattanooga Seating Systems

Chattanooga, TN · ~209 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.1
Avg TCR
5.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Chattanooga Seating Systems runs at 132% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Automobile seat frames, metal, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Chattanooga Seating Systems: 7.1 TCR = 132% of Automobile seat frames, metal, manufacturing BLS 5.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Chattanooga Seating Systems safety composite

Chattanooga Seating Systems scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 6%), 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

19/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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 Seating Systems: 6.1 → 8.2 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 8.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.88× in 2017

Chattanooga Seating Systems's TCR rose 2.0 from 6.1 in 2016 to 8.2 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 0.88× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336360 · Chattanooga, TN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 7.1 · 132% of ind

  • DART 6.3 DART
  • RANK #22/23
  • PHOTO Janesville Acoustics…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 30 inj
  • SIZE ~209 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Janesville Acoustics - Warrensburg (0.0 TCR gap)

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Chattanooga Seating Systems in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Chattanooga Seating Systems averages 7.1 TCR (132% of the Automobile seat frames, metal, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Chattanooga Seating Systems TCR series: 2016=6.1 · 2017=8.2 · BLS 5.4

Where Chattanooga Seating Systems falls in its industry

384 Automobile seat frames, metal, establishments

Safer than 11% 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 #22 safest of 23 Automobile seat frames, metal, employers in Tennessee.

Chattanooga Seating Systems (209 employees, TCR 7.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 245 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 01,0002,0003,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Chattanooga Seating Systems
Chattanooga Seating Systems (209 employees, TCR 7.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 245 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Chattanooga Seating Systems has fewer employees than the Automobile seat frames, metal, manufactu median and a higher 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 8.2 6.3 22 0 0
2016 6.1 5.4 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336360 · TN · Chattanooga

384 Automobile seat frames, metal, manufacturing 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 Janesville Acoustics - Warrensburg 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lear Corporation - Detroit Davison 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Futuris Automotive CA LLC 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Toyota Boshoku Kentucky- Bardstown 7.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Aphena Pharma Solutions - Fisk Rd 209 FTE
STATE-SIZE Essex Furukawa 209 FTE
STATE-SIZE 026-00541 209 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1302 - Chattanooga East 209 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 Milwaukee Depot 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Fanatics- NASCAR 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR City of O'Fallon, Illinois 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 233 ABC Supply Co., Inc 7.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hydro - Elkhart 209 FTE
NAT-SIZE Industrial Solutions : IS - FS - Northern USA 209 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sales - Section 41 - Frisco, TX 209 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bradley Airsort 85-171 (Ctbra) 209 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.