Toothpastes, gels, and tooth powders manufacturing · Tennessee

Colgate- Palmolive

Morristown, TN · ~284 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Colgate- Palmolive runs at 47% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Toothpastes, gels, and tooth powders manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Colgate- Palmolive: 1.6 TCR = 47% of Toothpastes, gels, and tooth powders manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Colgate- Palmolive safety composite

Colgate- Palmolive scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 67% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

C

62/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% 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%).

Colgate- Palmolive held a steady TCR band

Colgate- Palmolive's TCR held near 0.1 from 0.9 in 2020 to 1.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 2.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.23× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=0.9 · 2021=1.5 · 2022=1.4 · 2023=2.9 · 2024=1.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325611 · Morristown, TN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.6 · 47% of ind

  • DART 0.3 DART
  • RANK #2/5
  • PHOTO Henkel Corporation
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~284 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Henkel Corporation (0.0 TCR gap)

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Colgate- Palmolive in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Colgate- Palmolive averages 1.6 TCR (47% of the Toothpastes, gels, and tooth powders manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Colgate- Palmolive TCR series: 2020=0.9 · 2021=1.5 · 2022=1.4 · 2023=2.9 · 2024=1.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Colgate- Palmolive falls in its industry

240 Toothpastes, gels, and tooth p establishments

Safer than 67% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 5 Toothpastes, gels, and tooth p employers in Tennessee.

Colgate- Palmolive (284 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 2.3 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 01,0002,0003,0004,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Colgate- Palmolive
Colgate- Palmolive (284 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 2.3

Colgate- Palmolive has more employees than the Toothpastes, gels, and tooth powders man median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.3. 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 1.1 0.3 2 1 0
2023 2.9 1.4 7 1 0
2022 1.4 1.1 4 0 0
2021 1.5 1.2 5 0 0
2020 0.9 0.9 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325611 · TN · Morristown

240 Toothpastes, gels, and tooth powders manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 123 employers in Morristown, 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 Henkel Corporation 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ada World Headquarters 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR DBA Voyant Beauty 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Croda Mill Hall 1.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE DPR Construction - Nashville 284 FTE
STATE-SIZE Athens Trailer Operations 284 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 667 284 FTE
STATE-SIZE TNBAR - BARTLETT 284 FTE
CITY-NEAR MAHLE Engine Components USA, INC. - Morristown 928 FTE
CITY-NEAR Howmet - Morristown M1 892 FTE
CITY-NEAR Howmet - Morristown 1 747 FTE
CITY-NEAR Team Technologies, Inc. Morristown, TN 729 FTE
NAT-TCR TPAC adivision of EnCon united 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 2731 E8Q79 - Turnpike Mainline Widening 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Clean Harbors Environmental Services Inc 37CQ 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Arbor Ridge at Brookmeade Community 1.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE GUM-GH 284 FTE
NAT-SIZE Holsum Bakery, Inc. 284 FTE
NAT-SIZE Union City - 6000 Studio Way 284 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kratos Unmanned Aerial Systems CASA1 284 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, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.