Chassis, automobile, manufacturing · Tennessee

Etowah Plant

Etowah, TN · ~82 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Etowah Plant runs at 320% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Chassis, automobile, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Etowah Plant: 10.6 TCR = 320% of Chassis, automobile, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Etowah Plant safety composite

Etowah Plant scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 87% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 10%), 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

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

−21.0

2016→2022

Etowah Plant injury rate improved

Etowah Plant's TCR fell 21.0 from 21.0 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2017 at 29.4 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=21.0 · 2017=29.4 · 2018=11.7 · 2019=6.4 · 2020=3.9 · 2021=1.4 · 2022=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336111 · Etowah, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.6 · 320% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #12/15
  • PHOTO Tower Automotive Ope…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 76 inj
  • SIZE ~82 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Tower Automotive Operations USA I, LLC - Bellevue (0.1 TCR gap)

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Etowah Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Etowah Plant averages 10.6 TCR (320% of the Chassis, automobile, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Etowah Plant TCR series: 2016=21 · 2017=29.4 · 2018=11.7 · 2019=6.4 · 2020=3.9 · 2021=1.4 · 2022=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Etowah Plant falls in its industry

158 Chassis, automobile, manufactu establishments

Safer than 10% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 15 Chassis, automobile, manufactu employers in Tennessee.

Etowah Plant (82 employees, TCR 10.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 366 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Etowah Plant
Etowah Plant (82 employees, TCR 10.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 366 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Etowah Plant has fewer employees than the Chassis, automobile, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 1.4 0.0 1 0 0
2020 3.9 0.0 4 0 0
2019 6.4 3.7 7 0 0
2018 11.7 3.5 10 0 0
2017 29.4 7.3 18 2 0
2016 21.0 4.1 36 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336111 · TN · Etowah

158 Chassis, automobile, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 14 employers in Etowah, 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 Tower Automotive Operations USA I, LLC - Bellevue 10.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR WGS Athens - Ironcraft 11.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lansing Delta Township Assembly 9.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Spring Hill Manufacturing 11.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Shelbyville DREMC 82 FTE
STATE-SIZE D.R. Horton, Inc. - Nashville 82 FTE
STATE-SIZE Construction 82 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gallaher & Associates, Inc. 82 FTE
CITY-NEAR Waupaca Foundry, Inc. Plant 6 515 FTE
CITY-NEAR Etowah 310 FTE
CITY-NEAR Haren Construction Co., Inc. 157 FTE
CITY-NEAR Evonik Corporation 138 FTE
NAT-TCR 482222-Dal-Oaklawn Sta 10.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 482214-Dal-Juanita Craft Sta 10.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 168616-Woodstock Po 10.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 350525-Bath Po 10.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE RenaissanceProvidence Downtown Hotel 82 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lake View Court 82 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6925-ATL 82 FTE
NAT-SIZE 3348 Family Fare (Cannon Falls, Mn) 82 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.