Construction machinery and equipment rental or leasing without operator · Tennessee

Franklin Equipment - Chattanooga

Name: Franklin Equipment - Chattanooga Workplace Safety Data
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Chattanooga, TN · ~16 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

F
Failing Safety Record: 5.4
Avg TCR: 1.4
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Franklin Equipment - Chattanooga runs at 383% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Construction machinery and equipment rental or leasing without operator workplace, earning a grade F.

Franklin Equipment - Chattanooga: 5.4 TCR = 383% of Construction machinery and equipment rental or leasing without operator BLS 1.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Franklin Equipment - Chattanooga safety composite

Franklin Equipment - Chattanooga scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 9%), 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).

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 5.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% of industry peers
DART rate: F 5.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% 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

Franklin Equipment - Chattanooga: 0.0 → 10.7 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 10.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1× in 2020

Franklin Equipment - Chattanooga's TCR rose 10.7 from 0.0 in 2019 to 10.7 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 1× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 532412 · Chattanooga, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 5.4 · 383% of ind

DART 5.4 DART
RANK #8/9
PHOTO Fairview
BOOK 2y book
INJ 2 inj
SIZE ~16 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Fairview (0.0 TCR gap)

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5.3
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5.2

What this shows Franklin Equipment - Chattanooga averages 5.4 TCR (383% of the Construction machinery and equipment rental or leasing without operator BLS benchmark).

Franklin Equipment - Chattanooga TCR series: 2019=0 · 2020=10.7 · BLS 1.4

Where Franklin Equipment - Chattanooga falls in its industry

270 Construction machinery and equ establishments

Safer than 17% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.1.

Grade F

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 9 Construction machinery and equ employers in Tennessee.

Franklin Equipment - Chattanooga (16 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 37 employees and a TCR of 2.1

Franklin Equipment - Chattanooga has fewer employees than the Construction machinery and equipment ren median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.1. 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	10.7	5.4	2	0	0
2019	0.0	0.0	0	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

532412 · TN · Chattanooga

270 Construction machinery and equipment rental or leasing without operator employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 695 employers in Chattanooga, TN · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Fairview	BOISE, ID	5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Franklin Equipment - Nashville	NASHVILLE, TN	5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	250-Uniontown	LEMONT FURNACE, PA	5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	High Reach Company - Deerfield	DEERFIELD, FL	5.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE	LINDAMOOD PLANTING COMPANY	TIPTONVILLE	16 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Southern Light	CLARKSVILLE	16 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Espey Gin Company, Inc.	MCLEMORESVILLE	16 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Humboldt Live Production	HUMBOLDT	16 FTE
CITY-NEAR	CHATTANOOGA COKE	Chattanooga	8,650 FTE
CITY-NEAR	CHATTANOOGA FOOD	Chattanooga	8,650 FTE
CITY-NEAR	USXpress	Chattanooga	7,385 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Cardiology GB	Chattanooga	6,606 FTE
NAT-TCR	Vulcan Materials Company	San Antonio, TX	5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR	RG Adding LLC	Orlando, FL	5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR	Regal Beloit America, Inc	Mcallen, TX	5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR	Iga #49	Wise, VA	5.4 TCR

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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.