City and town councils · Tennessee

City of Dyersburg

Dyersburg, TN · ~296 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.4
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

City of Dyersburg runs at 169% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical City and town councils workplace, earning a grade D.

City of Dyersburg: 5.4 TCR = 169% of City and town councils BLS 3.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

City of Dyersburg safety composite

City of Dyersburg scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 40%), 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

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.8

2016→2019

City of Dyersburg injury rate improved

City of Dyersburg's TCR fell 0.8 from 6.6 in 2016 to 5.8 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2016 at 6.6 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.5× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=6.6 · 2018=3.9 · 2019=5.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 921120 · Dyersburg, TN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.4 · 169% of ind

  • DART 2.7 DART
  • RANK P52
  • PHOTO Gila County Government
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 42 inj
  • SIZE ~296 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Gila County Government (0.0 TCR gap)

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City of Dyersburg in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows City of Dyersburg averages 5.4 TCR (169% of the City and town councils BLS benchmark).

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

City of Dyersburg TCR series: 2016=6.6 · 2018=3.9 · 2019=5.8 · BLS 3.2

Where City of Dyersburg falls in its industry

158 City and town councils establishments

Safer than 52% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
City of Dyersburg (296 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 123 employees and a TCR of 5.6 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate City of Dyersburg
City of Dyersburg (296 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 123 employees and a TCR of 5.6

City of Dyersburg has more employees than the City and town councils median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.6. 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
2019 5.8 2.7 15 0 0
2018 3.9 3.1 10 0 0
2016 6.6 4.3 17 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

921120 · TN · Dyersburg

158 City and town councils employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 64 employers in Dyersburg, 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 Gila County Government 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Carlsbad 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Whitley County Government Center 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Batavia-Bureau of Maintenance 5.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE E & E Manufacturing of Tennessee, LLC 296 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ajax Turner Company, Incorporated 296 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1466 296 FTE
STATE-SIZE Livingston Regional Hospital 296 FTE
CITY-NEAR ERMCO COMPONENTS, INC. 2,113 FTE
CITY-NEAR ERMCO 1,304 FTE
CITY-NEAR NSK Steering Systems 569 FTE
CITY-NEAR West Tennessee Healthcare Dyersburg Hospital 400 FTE
NAT-TCR Paper & Ink of PA LLC dba Applegate Mfg 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 5472-Swy 0035 1731 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Centre Avenue Health and Rehab 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Residence Inn Country Club Plaza 5.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE QSC 296 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pensacola Bay Bridge 296 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bradley-Bourbonnais CHSD #307 296 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1855-KSWIC053 296 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: 2019, 2018, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.