Community colleges · Tennessee

Chattanooga State Community College

Chattanooga, TN · ~808 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
0.9
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Chattanooga State Community College runs at 62% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Community colleges workplace, earning a grade B.

Chattanooga State Community College: 0.9 TCR = 62% of Community colleges BLS 1.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Chattanooga State Community College safety composite

Chattanooga State Community College scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 75% 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).

D

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 0.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% of industry peers

DART rate
F 1.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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 State Community College: 0.3 → 1.8 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 1.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.4× in 2024

Chattanooga State Community College's TCR rose 1.6 from 0.3 in 2022 to 1.8 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.4× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 611210 · Chattanooga, TN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 0.9 · 62% of ind

  • DART 1.2 DART
  • RANK P75
  • PHOTO College of DuPage
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~808 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: College of DuPage (0.0 TCR gap)

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Chattanooga State Community College in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Chattanooga State Community College averages 0.9 TCR (62% of the Community colleges BLS benchmark).

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

Chattanooga State Community College TCR series: 2022=0.3 · 2023=0.5 · 2024=1.8 · BLS 1.4

Where Chattanooga State Community College falls in its industry

127 Community colleges establishments

Safer than 75% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Chattanooga State Community College (808 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 400 employees and a TCR of 1.4 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 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Chattanooga State Community College
Chattanooga State Community College (808 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 400 employees and a TCR of 1.4

Chattanooga State Community College has more employees than the Community colleges median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.4. 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 1.2 9 0 0
2023 0.5 0.5 4 0 0
2022 0.3 0.3 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611210 · TN · Chattanooga

127 Community colleges 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 College of DuPage 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Northern Virginia Community College - Woodbridge 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR MORAINE VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE #524 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Northern Virginia Community College - MEC 0.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Holston Army Ammunition Plant 809 FTE
STATE-SIZE Aisin Automotive Casting Tennessee 805 FTE
STATE-SIZE CORP4000 - SVM CORPORATE BSC 811 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southern Adventist University 811 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 Related Hybrid Companies LLC Deutsche Bank Center 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR R&B Roofing LLC 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Parkdale Mills, Inc Plant 52 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Pioneer Power, Inc 0.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Fulfillment Distribution Center Inc. 808 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fidelity Technologies Corporation 808 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jackson Aero Mi 808 FTE
NAT-SIZE OH_Columbus_1015 Olentangy River Rd._TWCMOH38 808 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. 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.