Employer · Tennessee

Giles Co. Hwy Dept

Pulaski, TN · ~39 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.1
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Giles Co. Hwy Dept runs at 218% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade F.

Giles Co. Hwy Dept: 6.1 TCR = 218% of industry BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Giles Co. Hwy Dept safety composite

Giles Co. Hwy Dept scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 5%), 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 6.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

Giles Co. Hwy Dept: 2.6 → 9.6 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 9.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.57× in 2021

Giles Co. Hwy Dept's TCR rose 7.0 from 2.6 in 2020 to 9.6 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 1.57× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237310 · Pulaski, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.1 · 218% of ind

  • DART 9.6 DART
  • RANK #72/94
  • PHOTO Allied Blacktop Comp…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~39 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Allied Blacktop Company (0.0 TCR gap)

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Giles Co. Hwy Dept in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Giles Co. Hwy Dept averages 6.1 TCR (218% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

Giles Co. Hwy Dept TCR series: 2020=2.6 · 2021=9.6 · BLS 2.8

Where Giles Co. Hwy Dept falls in its industry

4,078 industry establishments

Safer than 22% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #72 safest of 94 industry employers in Tennessee.

Giles Co. Hwy Dept (39 employees, TCR 6.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 01,0002,0003,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Giles Co. Hwy Dept
Giles Co. Hwy Dept (39 employees, TCR 6.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Giles Co. Hwy Dept has fewer employees than the industry median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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
2021 9.6 9.6 4 0 0
2020 2.6 2.6 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237310 · TN · Pulaski

4,078 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 38 employers in Pulaski, 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 Allied Blacktop Company 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Noblesville 02 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Miller & Miller, Inc. 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Complete General Construction Company 6.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Crain Construction, Inc. 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE DEKALB - WARREN CO - CNT011 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Norris & Son, Inc. 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Water Control Roofing Company 39 FTE
CITY-NEAR PULASKI PLANT 611 FTE
CITY-NEAR 35370 - PULASKI PLANT 474 FTE
CITY-NEAR SaarGummi Tennessee Inc. 426 FTE
CITY-NEAR Adient, Pulaski TN 299 FTE
NAT-TCR MAHS ( Detroit Origin Dis. Ctr. ) 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR JGMT Inc 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Bangs Nursing Home 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR CCS Main Office 6.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Cherryville Plant 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Connellsville Cash Saver 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gillespie Decals 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Huntsville Operations 39 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: 2021, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.