Stationery supplies merchant wholesalers · Tennessee

Essendant: Nashville OE

Lavergne, TN · ~92 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
4.8
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Essendant: Nashville OE runs at 219% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Stationery supplies merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Essendant: Nashville OE: 4.8 TCR = 219% of Stationery supplies merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Essendant: Nashville OE safety composite

Essendant: Nashville OE scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 4%), 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

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

Essendant: Nashville OE: 1.9 → 11.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 11.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.78× in 2024

Essendant: Nashville OE's TCR rose 9.5 from 1.9 in 2020 to 11.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.78× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424120 · Lavergne, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 4.8 · 219% of ind

  • DART 8.5 DART
  • RANK #3/4
  • PHOTO SP Richards
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~92 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SP Richards (0.1 TCR gap)

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Essendant: Nashville OE in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Essendant: Nashville OE averages 4.8 TCR (219% of the Stationery supplies merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Essendant: Nashville OE TCR series: 2020=1.9 · 2021=3.7 · 2022=0 · 2023=7.1 · 2024=11.4 · BLS 2.2

Where Essendant: Nashville OE falls in its industry

87 Stationery supplies merchant w establishments

Safer than 25% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 4 Stationery supplies merchant w employers in Tennessee.

Essendant: Nashville OE (92 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 89 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 05,00010,00015,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Essendant: Nashville OE
Essendant: Nashville OE (92 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 89 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Essendant: Nashville OE has more employees than the Stationery supplies merchant wholesalers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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 11.4 8.5 8 0 0
2023 7.1 2.4 2 1 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 3.7 0.0 2 0 0
2020 1.9 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424120 · TN · Lavergne

87 Stationery supplies merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 76 employers in Lavergne, 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 SP Richards 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR SP Richards Co Mira Loma CA. 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR DC35-Chicago 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR S.P. Richards Co. 4.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE B&W Quality Growers - TN 92 FTE
STATE-SIZE King Industries Inc. 92 FTE
STATE-SIZE Safway Services, LLC - Nashville 92 FTE
STATE-SIZE Valk Industries Inc. 92 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lavergne (BAMG) 982 FTE
CITY-NEAR Star Transportation, Inc. 474 FTE
CITY-NEAR C113 LaVergne 411 FTE
CITY-NEAR Advance Auto Parts DC 42 344 FTE
NAT-TCR Koch Air - Louisville 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 30234 - Capstone Kroger Paramount Ca 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Univ of Kentucky Hospital 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 0819 - Clinton Pointe 4.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lakeshore Fittings 92 FTE
NAT-SIZE Meritage Homes of Colorado 92 FTE
NAT-SIZE Eagle View Elementary School 92 FTE
NAT-SIZE Northern Improvement Company Bismarck 92 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. 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.