Plate Work Manufacturing · Tennessee

Cupples J&J Jackson

Jackson, TN · ~220 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cupples J&J Jackson runs at 146% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Plate Work Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Cupples J&J Jackson: 4.8 TCR = 146% of Plate Work Manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cupples J&J Jackson safety composite

Cupples J&J Jackson scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 10%), 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

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

Cupples J&J Jackson: 2.9 → 7.0 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 7.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.31× in 2021

Cupples J&J Jackson's TCR rose 4.1 from 2.9 in 2016 to 7.0 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 1.31× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332313 · Jackson, TN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.8 · 146% of ind

  • DART 6.3 DART
  • RANK #12/18
  • PHOTO Cleaver-Brooks
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 67 inj
  • SIZE ~220 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cleaver-Brooks (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cupples J&J Jackson in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cupples J&J Jackson averages 4.8 TCR (146% of the Plate Work Manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Cupples J&J Jackson TCR series: 2016=2.9 · 2018=5.8 · 2019=4.4 · 2020=4.1 · 2021=7 · BLS 3.3

Where Cupples J&J Jackson falls in its industry

449 Plate Work Manufacturing establishments

Safer than 45% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 18 Plate Work Manufacturing employers in Tennessee.

Cupples J&J Jackson (220 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 0100200300400 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Cupples J&J Jackson
Cupples J&J Jackson (220 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Cupples J&J Jackson has more employees than the Plate Work Manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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
2021 7.0 6.3 21 0 0
2020 4.1 3.7 11 0 0
2019 4.4 4.0 12 0 0
2018 5.8 4.1 17 0 0
2016 2.9 1.9 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332313 · TN · Jackson

449 Plate Work Manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 233 employers in Jackson, 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 Cleaver-Brooks 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Modern Welding Company of Georgia, Inc. 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Marks Brothers, Inc. 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Arizona HDTS 4.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Chattanooga Offset 220 FTE
STATE-SIZE Trinity Marine Products, Inc. Plant 1296 220 FTE
STATE-SIZE WireMasters, Inc. 220 FTE
STATE-SIZE LaVergne TN - LV 220 FTE
CITY-NEAR JACKSON MADISON COUNTY GENERAL HOSPITAL 4,844 FTE
CITY-NEAR Jackson Manufacturing Facility - KNA 1,210 FTE
CITY-NEAR Delta Faucet Company of Tennessee 1,125 FTE
CITY-NEAR Delta Jackson 1,046 FTE
NAT-TCR PrairieLand Partners - Hutchinson 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 6795-86062B0199 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Ultimate Care, Inc 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR US039: Allied and Cope Houston 4.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Freud America, Inc - High Point NC 220 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sempra Energy Headquarters - 50 220 FTE
NAT-SIZE VenuWorks of Cedar Rapids, LLC. 220 FTE
NAT-SIZE Power Production 220 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2016. 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.