Material Handling · Georgia

Dalton

Dalton, GA · ~229 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.7
Avg TCR
2.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Dalton runs at 178% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Material Handling workplace, earning a grade D.

Dalton: 3.7 TCR = 178% of Material Handling BLS 2.1 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dalton safety composite

Dalton scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 34%), 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

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.7

2016→2024

Dalton injury rate improved

Dalton's TCR fell 0.7 from 3.0 in 2016 to 2.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 5.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.49× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=3.0 · 2017=3.0 · 2018=4.5 · 2019=3.6 · 2020=5.6 · 2021=4.0 · 2022=4.9 · 2023=2.8 · 2024=2.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 811310 · Dalton, GA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 3.7 · 178% of ind

  • DART 1.8 DART
  • RANK #65/93
  • PHOTO Traverse City
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 74 inj
  • SIZE ~229 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Traverse City (0.0 TCR gap)

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Dalton in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dalton averages 3.7 TCR (178% of the Material Handling BLS benchmark).

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

Dalton TCR series: 2016=3 · 2017=3 · 2018=4.5 · 2019=3.6 · 2020=5.6 · 2021=4 · 2022=4.9 · 2023=2.8 · 2024=2.3 · BLS 2.1

Where Dalton falls in its industry

2,560 Material Handling establishments

Safer than 34% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Georgia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #65 safest of 93 Material Handling employers in Georgia.

Dalton (229 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 2.7 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 0100200300400500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Dalton
Dalton (229 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 2.7

Dalton has more employees than the Material Handling median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.7. 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 2.3 1.8 5 0 0
2023 2.8 1.4 5 1 0
2022 4.9 3.6 11 0 0
2021 4.0 3.6 9 0 0
2020 5.6 5.6 12 0 0
2019 3.6 3.6 8 0 0
2018 4.5 4.5 10 0 0
2017 3.0 2.2 7 0 0
2016 3.0 1.7 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

811310 · GA · Dalton

2,560 Material Handling employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 14,941 rated employers in Georgia with headcount on file · 292 employers in Dalton, GA · 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 Traverse City 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Crown Lift Trucks Columbia 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR OASIS Alignment Services LLC 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Joy Global Underground LLC - Bluefield 3.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Coats & Clark Albany Mill 229 FTE
STATE-SIZE Constellium 229 FTE
STATE-SIZE ResMed Atlanta 229 FTE
STATE-SIZE 0373 - Smyrna 229 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hamilton Medical Center 1,606 FTE
CITY-NEAR Plant 97 1,244 FTE
CITY-NEAR SD 1,224 FTE
CITY-NEAR USA Dalton GA Antioch 1,077 FTE
NAT-TCR CAMC Labworks 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Indiana Sugars 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR kensington HPP, Inc 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Tex-Mix San Antonio 3.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE EDCO Disposal 229 FTE
NAT-SIZE Racetrack Supermarket LLC 229 FTE
NAT-SIZE NOW Foods - Corporate 229 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lennar Bay Area 229 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, 2018, 2017, 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.