Employer · Tennessee

Chattanooga Southern Cellulose

Chattanooga, TN · ~112 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Chattanooga Southern Cellulose runs at 42% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade A.

Chattanooga Southern Cellulose: 1.4 TCR = 42% of industry BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Chattanooga Southern Cellulose safety composite

Chattanooga Southern Cellulose scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 84% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 54%), 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).

C

70/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 54% 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 Southern Cellulose: 0.0 → 1.8 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 3.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Chattanooga Southern Cellulose's TCR rose 1.8 from 0.0 in 2016 to 1.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 3.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322110 · Chattanooga, TN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.4 · 42% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #2/4
  • PHOTO International Paper
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~112 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: International Paper (0.0 TCR gap)

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Chattanooga Southern Cellulose in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Chattanooga Southern Cellulose averages 1.4 TCR (42% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

Chattanooga Southern Cellulose TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=1 · 2018=3 · 2019=0 · 2020=1.9 · 2021=1 · 2022=3.6 · 2023=0 · 2024=1.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Chattanooga Southern Cellulose falls in its industry

46 industry establishments

Safer than 67% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 4 industry employers in Tennessee.

Chattanooga Southern Cellulose (112 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 123 employees and a TCR of 2.0 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Chattanooga Southern Cellulose
Chattanooga Southern Cellulose (112 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 123 employees and a TCR of 2.0

Chattanooga Southern Cellulose has fewer employees than the industry median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.0. 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
2024 1.8 0.0 2 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 3.6 0.9 4 0 0
2021 1.0 0.0 1 0 0
2020 1.9 0.0 2 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 3.0 0.0 3 0 0
2017 1.0 0.0 1 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322110 · TN · Chattanooga

46 industry 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 International Paper 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Riegelwood Mill 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Columbus Mill 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR ND Fairmont LLC 1.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Lendlease - DoD Construction 112 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMERICAN MECHANICAL CONTRACTORS 112 FTE
STATE-SIZE Great Lakes Boat Top LLC 112 FTE
STATE-SIZE Koch Tenn Cabinets 112 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 Marshall Corn Plant 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 7891-Pdllc-Bard College 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Denver Field Office 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Steel Dynamics Flat Roll Group - GalvTech 1.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE The KMBabiak Group 112 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sitiji Inc 112 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cooper Lighting Solutions 112 FTE
NAT-SIZE Golden Container 112 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.