Trucking, specialized freight (except used goods), long-distance · Tennessee

Chattanooga, TN

Chatanooga, TN · ~44 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
5.1
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Chattanooga, TN runs at 113% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Trucking, specialized freight (except used goods), long-distance workplace, earning a grade C.

Chattanooga, TN: 5.1 TCR = 113% of Trucking, specialized freight (except used goods), long-distance BLS 4.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Chattanooga, TN safety composite

Chattanooga, TN scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 10%), 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

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.1 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% 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, TN: 8.8 → 9.4 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 9.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.38× in 2020

Chattanooga, TN's TCR rose 0.6 from 8.8 in 2016 to 9.4 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 1.38× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484230 · Chatanooga, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 5.1 · 113% of ind

  • DART 7.0 DART
  • RANK #30/37
  • PHOTO Denver Logistics, LLC
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~44 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Denver Logistics, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Chattanooga, TN in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Chattanooga, TN averages 5.1 TCR (113% of the Trucking, specialized freight (except used goods), long-distance BLS benchmark).

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

Chattanooga, TN TCR series: 2016=8.8 · 2017=2.7 · 2018=0 · 2019=4.5 · 2020=9.4 · BLS 4.5

Where Chattanooga, TN falls in its industry

1,026 Trucking, specialized freight establishments

Safer than 27% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #30 safest of 37 Trucking, specialized freight employers in Tennessee.

Chattanooga, TN (44 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 3.2 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Chattanooga, TN
Chattanooga, TN (44 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Chattanooga, TN has fewer employees than the Trucking, specialized freight (except us median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.2. 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
2020 9.4 7.0 4 0 0
2019 4.5 4.5 2 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 2.7 0.0 1 0 0
2016 8.8 3.0 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484230 · TN · Chatanooga

1,026 Trucking, specialized freight (except used goods), long-distance employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 3 employers in Chatanooga, 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 Denver Logistics, LLC 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR HTC Chattanooga 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR UR-Detroit 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Service Seal LLC 5.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE South Pittsburg Office 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southern Building Group, Inc. 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE Walker Building Group, LLC 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE JACKSON SHOP & WEST TENN STRUCTURES 44 FTE
CITY-NEAR MPW Industrial Services, Inc. - Volkswagen Waste 188 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chatanooga 50 FTE
NAT-TCR Vern Eide Body Shop 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Sweeney Lumber 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR BW StCharles 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Eastern Division Gadsden Office 5.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Main 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Eastside Gardens 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE VISTA DEL SOL- NorthStarr Postacute Care 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE S08485 - WM of Wellsboro 44 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: 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.