Powder coating metals and metal products for the trade · Tennessee

Ellison Surface Technologies, Inc - Tennessee Coatings

Wartburg, TN · ~23 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ellison Surface Technologies, Inc - Tennessee Coatings runs at 64% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Powder coating metals and metal products for the trade workplace, earning a grade B.

Ellison Surface Technologies, Inc - Tennessee Coatings: 2.1 TCR = 64% of Powder coating metals and metal products for the trade BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ellison Surface Technologies, Inc - Tennessee Coatings safety composite

Ellison Surface Technologies, Inc - Tennessee Coatings scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

71/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% 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

Ellison Surface Technologies, Inc - Tennessee Coatings: 0.0 → 6.4 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 6.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2020

Ellison Surface Technologies, Inc - Tennessee Coatings's TCR rose 6.4 from 0.0 in 2018 to 6.4 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332812 · Wartburg, TN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.1 · 64% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/15
  • PHOTO Pratt and Whitney Ad…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 0 inj
  • SIZE ~23 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Pratt and Whitney Advanced Coating Technologies (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ellison Surface Technologies, Inc - Tennessee Coatings in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ellison Surface Technologies, Inc - Tennessee Coatings averages 2.1 TCR (64% of the Powder coating metals and metal products for the trade BLS benchmark).

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

Ellison Surface Technologies, Inc - Tennessee Coatings TCR series: 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=6.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Ellison Surface Technologies, Inc - Tennessee Coatings falls in its industry

646 Powder coating metals and meta establishments

Safer than 75% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 15 Powder coating metals and meta employers in Tennessee.

Ellison Surface Technologies, Inc - Tennessee Coatings (23 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 3.9 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 0200400600 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Ellison Surface Technologies, Inc - Tennessee Coatings
Ellison Surface Technologies, Inc - Tennessee Coatings (23 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Ellison Surface Technologies, Inc - Tennessee Coatings has fewer employees than the Powder coating metals and metal products median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.9. 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
2020 6.4 0.0 0 1 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332812 · TN · Wartburg

646 Powder coating metals and metal products for the trade employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 7 employers in Wartburg, 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 Pratt and Whitney Advanced Coating Technologies 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Calibre, Inc. - Dakota Drive Facility 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Specialty Coating Systems Austin 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Houston Unlimited 2.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Manchester DREMC 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE East Tennessee Mechanical Contractors 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE CDE - Metro Nashville District Energy System 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Avenue Construction 23 FTE
CITY-NEAR LIFE CARE OF MORGAN CO 103 FTE
CITY-NEAR Life Care of Morgan County 78 FTE
CITY-NEAR Life Care Center of Morgan County 77 FTE
CITY-NEAR Heraeus Precious Metals North America LLC 73 FTE
NAT-TCR Bridgewater Interiors - Oxford 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR LSC Communications - Brighton Beach 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR East Michigan Eye Center 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Orizon Owasso OK 2.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Londonderry Freezer Warehouse 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Phoenix House 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Royal Crown Cola of Marion 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE John E Fisher Construction Co., Inc 23 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: 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.