Truck bodies assembling on purchased chassis · Tennessee

Cherokee Truck Equipment- Cummings Rd

Chattanooga, TN · ~50 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cherokee Truck Equipment- Cummings Rd runs at 212% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Truck bodies assembling on purchased chassis workplace, earning a grade F.

Cherokee Truck Equipment- Cummings Rd: 7.0 TCR = 212% of Truck bodies assembling on purchased chassis BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cherokee Truck Equipment- Cummings Rd safety composite

Cherokee Truck Equipment- Cummings Rd scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 8%), 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 6.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% 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

Cherokee Truck Equipment- Cummings Rd: 5.3 → 8.7 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 8.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.25× in 2021

Cherokee Truck Equipment- Cummings Rd's TCR rose 3.5 from 5.3 in 2019 to 8.7 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 1.25× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336211 · Chattanooga, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.0 · 212% of ind

  • DART 8.7 DART
  • RANK #8/11
  • PHOTO GSP Marketing Inc
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~50 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: GSP Marketing Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cherokee Truck Equipment- Cummings Rd in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cherokee Truck Equipment- Cummings Rd averages 7.0 TCR (212% of the Truck bodies assembling on purchased chassis BLS benchmark).

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

Cherokee Truck Equipment- Cummings Rd TCR series: 2019=5.3 · 2021=8.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Cherokee Truck Equipment- Cummings Rd falls in its industry

470 Truck bodies assembling on pur establishments

Safer than 32% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 11 Truck bodies assembling on pur employers in Tennessee.

Cherokee Truck Equipment- Cummings Rd (50 employees, TCR 7.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 87 employees and a TCR of 5.5 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Cherokee Truck Equipment- Cummings Rd
Cherokee Truck Equipment- Cummings Rd (50 employees, TCR 7.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 87 employees and a TCR of 5.5

Cherokee Truck Equipment- Cummings Rd has fewer employees than the Truck bodies assembling on purchased cha median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.5. 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
2021 8.7 8.7 4 0 0
2019 5.3 3.5 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336211 · TN · Chattanooga

470 Truck bodies assembling on purchased chassis 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 GSP Marketing Inc 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Scelzi Enterprises, Inc. Corporate 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Maintainer Corporation of Iowa Inc. 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Spartan Motors - Brandon 7.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Memphis Greenhouse 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE Winchester Utility System 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE W. R. Newman & Associates, Inc. 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE P&C Construction 50 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 Blaine County SD* 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Ssa Cfs 3 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR All-Star-Winchester 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Barrel Ten- Napa 7.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Region 4 - Klamath Falls 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Clovis Community Medical Center EM 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Herr Foods Inc. 67 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Herr Foods Inc. 66 50 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: 2021, 2019. 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.