Employer · Tennessee

City of Chattanooga

Chattanooga, TN · ~2,577 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.4
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
2
Fatalities
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The verdict

City of Chattanooga runs at 262% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade F.

City of Chattanooga: 8.4 TCR = 262% of industry BLS 3.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

City of Chattanooga safety composite

City of Chattanooga scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 24% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 0%), 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

17/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 2

Safer than 0% 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

City of Chattanooga: 8.1 → 8.6 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 8.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.57× in 2024

City of Chattanooga's TCR rose 0.5 from 8.1 in 2021 to 8.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 8.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.57× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 921110 · Chattanooga, TN ABOVE-IND · LARGE

Grade F · TCR 8.4 · 262% of ind

  • DART 4.8 DART
  • RANK #22/25
  • PHOTO City of Lakewood (WA)
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 672 inj
  • SIZE ~2,577 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: City of Lakewood (WA) (0.0 TCR gap)

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City of Chattanooga in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows City of Chattanooga averages 8.4 TCR (262% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

City of Chattanooga TCR series: 2021=8.1 · 2022=8.1 · 2023=8.8 · 2024=8.6 · BLS 3.2

Where City of Chattanooga falls in its industry

1,010 industry establishments

Safer than 24% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

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 25 industry employers in Tennessee.

City of Chattanooga (2,577 employees, TCR 8.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.8 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate City of Chattanooga
City of Chattanooga (2,577 employees, TCR 8.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.8

City of Chattanooga has more employees than the industry median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.8. 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 8.6 4.8 170 33 1
2023 8.8 5.4 197 14 1
2022 8.1 6.0 171 17 0
2021 8.1 5.6 134 45 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

921110 · TN · Chattanooga

1,010 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 City of Lakewood (WA) 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Hendersonville, TN 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Parks and Expo Center 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Municipio de Loiza 8.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Memphis Light Gas and Water 2,578 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2962-00001400 2,526 FTE
STATE-SIZE 00001400 1400 - POLICE SERVICES DIVISION 2,508 FTE
STATE-SIZE TMX4000 2,478 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 Security Sistems Services 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Store #19 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR EDPO LLC dba WOC Energy 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Hospice of orange and Sullivan Counties 8.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - SDF9 2,577 FTE
NAT-SIZE L3Harris 2,577 FTE
NAT-SIZE 3857 - Logan NJ M1FC 2,576 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sibley Memorial Hospital 2,578 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. 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.