Diatomaceous earth processing beyond beneficiation · Tennessee

CORMETECH - Cleveland Manufacturing Facility

Cleveland, TN · ~102 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

CORMETECH - Cleveland Manufacturing Facility runs at 47% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Diatomaceous earth processing beyond beneficiation workplace, earning a grade A.

CORMETECH - Cleveland Manufacturing Facility: 1.5 TCR = 47% of Diatomaceous earth processing beyond beneficiation BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

CORMETECH - Cleveland Manufacturing Facility safety composite

CORMETECH - Cleveland Manufacturing Facility scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 76% 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

64/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 61% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.0

2019→2024

CORMETECH - Cleveland Manufacturing Facility injury rate improved

CORMETECH - Cleveland Manufacturing Facility's TCR fell 1.0 from 1.0 in 2019 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 2.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=1.0 · 2020=1.1 · 2021=2.1 · 2022=2.5 · 2023=2.5 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 327992 · Cleveland, TN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.5 · 47% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #3/4
  • PHOTO POLYMER VALLEY CHEMI…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~102 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: POLYMER VALLEY CHEMICALS (0.0 TCR gap)

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CORMETECH - Cleveland Manufacturing Facility in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows CORMETECH - Cleveland Manufacturing Facility averages 1.5 TCR (47% of the Diatomaceous earth processing beyond beneficiation BLS benchmark).

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

CORMETECH - Cleveland Manufacturing Facility TCR series: 2019=1 · 2020=1.1 · 2021=2.1 · 2022=2.5 · 2023=2.5 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where CORMETECH - Cleveland Manufacturing Facility falls in its industry

97 Diatomaceous earth processing establishments

Safer than 61% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 4 Diatomaceous earth processing employers in Tennessee.

CORMETECH - Cleveland Manufacturing Facility (102 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 41 employees and a TCR of 1.9 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 050100150200250 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate CORMETECH - Cleveland Manufacturing Facility
CORMETECH - Cleveland Manufacturing Facility (102 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 41 employees and a TCR of 1.9

CORMETECH - Cleveland Manufacturing Facility has more employees than the Diatomaceous earth processing beyond ben median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.9. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 2.5 1.7 3 0 0
2022 2.5 0.8 3 0 0
2021 2.1 1.0 2 0 0
2020 1.1 0.0 1 0 0
2019 1.0 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

327992 · TN · Cleveland

97 Diatomaceous earth processing beyond beneficiation employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 157 employers in Cleveland, 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 POLYMER VALLEY CHEMICALS 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hemlcok Semiconductor Operations, LLC 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Levy Environmental Services Company - Columbia City 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sarver 1.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE CEMC-Headquarters 102 FTE
STATE-SIZE Titan Steel Erectors, LLC 102 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tri-State Armature & Electrical Works, Inc. 102 FTE
STATE-SIZE Morgan & Thornburg, Inc. 102 FTE
CITY-NEAR CLEVELAND PACKERS 6,804 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cleveland Clinic 6,606 FTE
CITY-NEAR Primary Care Cleveland 6,606 FTE
CITY-NEAR Whirlpool 1,544 FTE
NAT-TCR Star of the West Milling Co - Willard, OH 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR AGLC Rome Service Center 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Railroad Friction Products Corp. 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Auburndale Operations Center 1.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Twin Falls 102 FTE
NAT-SIZE Crane Worldwide- Irving 102 FTE
NAT-SIZE Belmont Village Sunnyvale 102 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sanborn 102 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, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.