Blocks, concrete and cinder, manufacturing · Tennessee

General Shale Piney Flats

Piney Flats, TN · ~57 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

General Shale Piney Flats runs at 188% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Blocks, concrete and cinder, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

General Shale Piney Flats: 6.2 TCR = 188% of Blocks, concrete and cinder, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

General Shale Piney Flats safety composite

General Shale Piney Flats scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 21%), 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

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% 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

General Shale Piney Flats: 1.6 → 6.7 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 10.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.81× in 2018

General Shale Piney Flats's TCR rose 5.1 from 1.6 in 2016 to 6.7 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 10.3 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.81× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 327331 · Piney Flats, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.2 · 188% of ind

  • DART 5.0 DART
  • RANK #9/10
  • PHOTO Pavestone - DENB
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~57 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Pavestone - DENB (0.0 TCR gap)

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General Shale Piney Flats in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows General Shale Piney Flats averages 6.2 TCR (188% of the Blocks, concrete and cinder, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

General Shale Piney Flats TCR series: 2016=1.6 · 2017=10.3 · 2018=6.7 · BLS 3.3

Where General Shale Piney Flats falls in its industry

321 Blocks, concrete and cinder, m establishments

Safer than 30% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 10 Blocks, concrete and cinder, m employers in Tennessee.

General Shale Piney Flats (57 employees, TCR 6.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 42 employees and a TCR of 4.1 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 0100200300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate General Shale Piney Flats
General Shale Piney Flats (57 employees, TCR 6.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 42 employees and a TCR of 4.1

General Shale Piney Flats has more employees than the Blocks, concrete and cinder, manufacturi median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.1. 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
2018 6.7 5.0 4 0 0
2017 10.3 6.8 4 2 0
2016 1.6 1.6 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

327331 · TN · Piney Flats

321 Blocks, concrete and cinder, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 26 employers in Piney Flats, 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 Pavestone - DENB 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Midwest Block - SGFB 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Basalite Tracy 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Barnes & Cone Inc. 6.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Middle TN Electric Membership Corporation (Downtown) 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Christman Company - Knoxville, TN 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hawkins Asphalt Paving Main Office 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE Concrete Polishing Technologies, Inc. 57 FTE
CITY-NEAR HSN Piney Flats 878 FTE
CITY-NEAR HSN Piney Flats TN 587 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bell - BHT Piney Flats 414 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bell Helicopter Piney Flats 392 FTE
NAT-TCR Schuyler Ridge 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Elmsford (Nyelf) 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Hugo (Okhug) 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Front Royal (Vafro) 6.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE New Athens Home for the Aged 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE Baillie Lumber Booneville Sawmill 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4113-41131003-R19 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE General Beer Northeast Central 57 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: 2018, 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.