Industrial Building Construction · Tennessee

Eastman Chemical Kingsport

Kingsport, TN · ~269 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.4
Avg TCR
2.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities

The verdict

Eastman Chemical Kingsport runs at 13% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Industrial Building Construction workplace, earning a grade A.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.4
avg TCR · per 100 workers
2.9
industry benchmark (BLS)
6
recordable injuries tracked

Grade compares Eastman Chemical Kingsport's OSHA Total Case Rate of 0.4 to the Industrial Building Construction BLS benchmark of 2.9 (13% of benchmark) across 3 years of Form 300A filings (2016–2024). <a href="/methodology">See methodology</a> for reporting-limitation caveats.

Injury rate over time

Eastman Chemical Kingsport's yearly Total Case Rate, against the 2.9 industry benchmark.

-101234 202220232024 02.9 Industry benchmarkEastman Chemical Kingsport TCR
Total Case Rate (recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers), OSHA ITA Form 300A. Industry benchmark: BLS IIF, NAICS 236210.

Where Eastman Chemical Kingsport falls in its industry

1,250 Industrial Building Constructi establishments

Safer than 64% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 0.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 23 Industrial Building Constructi employers in Tennessee.

Trend analysis for Eastman Chemical Kingsport

Between 2022 and 2024, Eastman Chemical Kingsport's Total Case Rate improved from 0.5 to 0.0 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers, a 100% decrease across 2 years of OSHA reporting.

The safest year on record was 2024, at a TCR of 0.0, while 2023 saw the highest rate, at 0.7, a spread of 0.7 points between the best and worst reporting years. That's a wide swing relative to the establishment's overall rate, worth checking the year-by-year table below for whether a single severe year is driving the average, rather than a sustained trend.

Summed across those 3 reporting years, Eastman Chemical Kingsport recorded 6 total injuries and illnesses, with no fatalities reported in any of those years. Readers comparing establishments should weigh the 3-year trend above alongside establishment size, since a larger workforce naturally accumulates more raw incidents even at a lower per-100-worker rate.

Verify This Employer with OSHA

The 6 injuries shown on this page for Eastman Chemical Kingsport are sourced from its own 3 years of mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source, name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.

Verify on OSHA Establishment Search

Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 236210 - Industrial Building Construction.

DART Rate, Transparent Calculation (2024)

What is the DART rate formula?

DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.

0 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 3,960 hours worked = 0.00 DART

Methodology: 29 CFR 1904, OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping

Cross-Validating Context, Establishment vs Industry vs State

Benchmark TCR Source
Eastman Chemical Kingsport (this establishment) 0.39 OSHA ITA Form 300A, 3-year avg
Construction management, industrial building (except warehouses) industry avg 2.90 BLS IIF, NAICS 236210
Tennessee state avg (all industries) 4.09 OSHA ITA, state-level rollup

Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program

Reportable Incident Timeline

Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by Eastman Chemical Kingsport to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.

Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) - inspection case-number records

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.7 0.3 5 0 0
2022 0.5 0.5 1 0 0

What this grade means for you

Use this grade as a relative read on Eastman Chemical Kingsport's reported OSHA injury record, strong versus its Industrial Building Construction peers, but not a guarantee about any single site today.

  • At 13% of the Industrial Building Construction benchmark, Eastman Chemical Kingsport reports fewer injuries than typical peers, still worth asking how safety is managed day to day. Know your rights
  • Judge this record against the wider Industrial Building Construction sector, where injury rates vary widely, before comparing it in isolation. See the industry
  • Grades reflect 2016–2024 filings; check the latest establishment record straight from OSHA, or look up a different employer. Look up another

Safety grades reflect employers' self-reported OSHA Form 300A filings from 2016 to 2024 and can lag current conditions. A grade is not a guarantee that any specific workplace is safe or unsafe today. See our methodology and disclaimer.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Eastman Chemical Kingsport's safety grade?
Eastman Chemical Kingsport has a safety grade of A (Excellent Safety Record). This grade is based on their average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 0.4 compared to the BLS industry benchmark of 2.9 for Industrial Building Construction.
How many injuries has Eastman Chemical Kingsport reported?
Eastman Chemical Kingsport has reported 6 total injuries and 0 fatalities across 3 years of OSHA data (2024, 2023, 2022). This data comes from mandatory OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA) reports.

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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. 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. Retrieved and formatted by PlainSafetyScore Editorial

Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.