Magnet wire, insulated, made from purchased copper in wire drawing plants · Tennessee

Essex Group, Inc Franklin TN Plant

Franklin, TN · ~196 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Essex Group, Inc Franklin TN Plant runs at 238% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Magnet wire, insulated, made from purchased copper in wire drawing plants workplace, earning a grade F.

Essex Group, Inc Franklin TN Plant: 7.9 TCR = 238% of Magnet wire, insulated, made from purchased copper in wire drawing plants BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Essex Group, Inc Franklin TN Plant safety composite

Essex Group, Inc Franklin TN Plant scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 16%), 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 7.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% 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

−4.5

2016→2017

Essex Group, Inc Franklin TN Plant injury rate improved

Essex Group, Inc Franklin TN Plant's TCR fell 4.5 from 10.1 in 2016 to 5.6 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 10.1 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0.24× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=10.1 · 2017=5.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331420 · Franklin, TN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 7.9 · 238% of ind

  • DART 1.9 DART
  • RANK #7/10
  • PHOTO ESSEX FURUKAWA FORT …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~196 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ESSEX FURUKAWA FORT WAYNE MAGNET WIRE PLANT (0.2 TCR gap)

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Essex Group, Inc Franklin TN Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Essex Group, Inc Franklin TN Plant averages 7.9 TCR (238% of the Magnet wire, insulated, made from purchased copper in wire drawing plants BLS benchmark).

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

Essex Group, Inc Franklin TN Plant TCR series: 2016=10.1 · 2017=5.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Essex Group, Inc Franklin TN Plant falls in its industry

198 Magnet wire, insulated, made f establishments

Safer than 16% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 10 Magnet wire, insulated, made f employers in Tennessee.

Essex Group, Inc Franklin TN Plant (196 employees, TCR 7.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 3.7 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 0200400600 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Essex Group, Inc Franklin TN Plant
Essex Group, Inc Franklin TN Plant (196 employees, TCR 7.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Essex Group, Inc Franklin TN Plant has more employees than the Magnet wire, insulated, made from purcha median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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
2017 5.6 1.9 9 3 0
2016 10.1 4.0 11 9 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331420 · TN · Franklin

198 Magnet wire, insulated, made from purchased copper in wire drawing plants employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 181 employers in Franklin, 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 ESSEX FURUKAWA FORT WAYNE MAGNET WIRE PLANT 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR GD Copper, (U.S.A.), Inc. 7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mueller Brass Company 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Electric Materials Company 7.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Fleming Center 196 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rutledge Pike 196 FTE
STATE-SIZE IPS Plumbing Group 196 FTE
STATE-SIZE TN Facility-KPS Global 196 FTE
CITY-NEAR Williamson County Board of Education - Williamson County Schools 6,320 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nissan Americas Headquarters - Franklin 2,007 FTE
CITY-NEAR Williamson County Government 1,948 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lee Company 1,716 FTE
NAT-TCR Green Bay (Wigre) 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Orange (Ctora) 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR The Lutheran Home at Kane 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR S09352 - Deffenbaugh Omaha 7.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Northside Lexus 196 FTE
NAT-SIZE Trumbull (Ohtru) 196 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lincoln (Nelin) 196 FTE
NAT-SIZE Durham Center (Ncdur) 196 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: 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.