Electroplating metals and formed products for the trade · Tennessee

Dewayne's Quality Metal Coatings

Lexington, TN · ~109 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Dewayne's Quality Metal Coatings runs at 248% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Electroplating metals and formed products for the trade workplace, earning a grade F.

Dewayne's Quality Metal Coatings: 8.2 TCR = 248% of Electroplating metals and formed products for the trade BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dewayne's Quality Metal Coatings safety composite

Dewayne's Quality Metal Coatings scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 14%), 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

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% 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

Dewayne's Quality Metal Coatings: 4.2 → 10.4 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 16.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.21× in 2024

Dewayne's Quality Metal Coatings's TCR rose 6.2 from 4.2 in 2016 to 10.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 16.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.21× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332813 · Lexington, TN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 8.2 · 248% of ind

  • DART 1.7 DART
  • RANK #6/10
  • PHOTO DELTA PLATING DBA OL…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 79 inj
  • SIZE ~109 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: DELTA PLATING DBA OLYMCO INC (0.1 TCR gap)

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Dewayne's Quality Metal Coatings in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dewayne's Quality Metal Coatings averages 8.2 TCR (248% of the Electroplating metals and formed products for the trade BLS benchmark).

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

Dewayne's Quality Metal Coatings TCR series: 2016=4.2 · 2017=11.3 · 2018=16.3 · 2019=5.9 · 2020=13.8 · 2021=0.9 · 2022=5.4 · 2023=5.4 · 2024=10.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Dewayne's Quality Metal Coatings falls in its industry

585 Electroplating metals and form establishments

Safer than 14% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 10 Electroplating metals and form employers in Tennessee.

Dewayne's Quality Metal Coatings (109 employees, TCR 8.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 4.0 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 0200400600 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Dewayne's Quality Metal Coatings
Dewayne's Quality Metal Coatings (109 employees, TCR 8.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Dewayne's Quality Metal Coatings has more employees than the Electroplating metals and formed product median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.0. 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 10.4 1.7 12 0 0
2023 5.4 2.7 4 0 0
2022 5.4 2.2 4 1 0
2021 0.9 0.0 0 1 0
2020 13.8 8.9 13 1 0
2019 5.9 4.2 7 0 0
2018 16.3 8.2 20 0 0
2017 11.3 5.2 13 0 0
2016 4.2 1.4 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332813 · TN · Lexington

585 Electroplating metals and formed products for the trade employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 35 employers in Lexington, 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 DELTA PLATING DBA OLYMCO INC 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR RDG Group Inc / Punxsutawney Finishing Works, Inc. 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Polishing Shop 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lake City Plating - Jefferson 8.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE United Structural Systems, Inc. 109 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rackley Roofing Co Inc 109 FTE
STATE-SIZE Vietti Acquisitions LLC 109 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bath Fitter Manufacturing Inc 109 FTE
CITY-NEAR 9722 502 FTE
CITY-NEAR Adient 352 FTE
CITY-NEAR FRS 334 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 684 330 FTE
NAT-TCR Elkhart General Hospital 8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Gafpa - Forest Park 8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR The Chefs' Warehouse Mid-Atlantic, LLC-Hanover, MD 8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR River Falls Area Hospital 8.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Aluminum Blanking Company, INC. 109 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mayo Civic Center 109 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ozark 109 FTE
NAT-SIZE Palomar Vista Healthcare Center 109 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.