Surgical supplies (except medical instruments) manufacturing · Tennessee

Coldstar International

Bristol, TN · ~15 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Coldstar International runs at 235% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Surgical supplies (except medical instruments) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Coldstar International: 7.8 TCR = 235% of Surgical supplies (except medical instruments) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Coldstar International safety composite

Coldstar International scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 5%), 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 7.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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%).

Coldstar International held a steady TCR band

Coldstar International's TCR held near 0.1 from 7.8 in 2018 to 7.7 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 7.8 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.99× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=7.8 · 2019=7.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 339113 · Bristol, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.8 · 235% of ind

  • DART 7.7 DART
  • RANK #19/21
  • PHOTO Hitachi Cable Americ…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~15 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hitachi Cable America Inc., High Performance Medical Solutions Division (CT Facility) (0.0 TCR gap)

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Coldstar International in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Coldstar International averages 7.8 TCR (235% of the Surgical supplies (except medical instruments) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Coldstar International TCR series: 2018=7.8 · 2019=7.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Coldstar International falls in its industry

555 Surgical supplies (except medi establishments

Safer than 8% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #19 safest of 21 Surgical supplies (except medi employers in Tennessee.

Coldstar International (15 employees, TCR 7.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 123 employees and a TCR of 2.1 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 05001,0001,5002,0002,500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Coldstar International
Coldstar International (15 employees, TCR 7.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 123 employees and a TCR of 2.1

Coldstar International has fewer employees than the Surgical supplies (except medical instru median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.1. 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 7.7 7.7 1 0 0
2018 7.8 7.8 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

339113 · TN · Bristol

555 Surgical supplies (except medical instruments) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 57 employers in Bristol, TN · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Hitachi Cable America Inc., High Performance Medical Solutions Division (CT Facility) 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Copan Industries Inc. 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR C.G. LABORATORIES, INC. 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Winco Mfg., LLC 7.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Stuard Tobacco LLC 15 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tosh Pork Buena Vista 15 FTE
STATE-SIZE Crain Construction Inc.- Crestmoor Project 15 FTE
STATE-SIZE 3.1 15 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bristol Regional Medical Center 1,620 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ballad Health- Bristol Regional Medical Center 1,155 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 620 304 FTE
CITY-NEAR 620 291 FTE
NAT-TCR CMS Mechanical Services LLC 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Carolina Gardens of Conway 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Swn 07 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR kj's iga winnsboro 7.8 TCR

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. 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.