Ducts, sheet metal, manufacturing · Tennessee

Gray Metal South, Inc.

Humboldt, TN · ~55 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Gray Metal South, Inc. runs at 193% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Ducts, sheet metal, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Gray Metal South, Inc.: 6.4 TCR = 193% of Ducts, sheet metal, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Gray Metal South, Inc. safety composite

Gray Metal South, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 83% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 32%), 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).

C

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% 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

−9.7

2016→2023

Gray Metal South, Inc. injury rate improved

Gray Metal South, Inc.'s TCR fell 9.7 from 9.7 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2019 at 74.0 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=9.7 · 2017=9.6 · 2018=6.2 · 2019=74.0 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332322 · Humboldt, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.4 · 193% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #17/21
  • PHOTO 5 Point Fabrication,…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~55 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 5 Point Fabrication, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Gray Metal South, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Gray Metal South, Inc. averages 6.4 TCR (193% of the Ducts, sheet metal, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Gray Metal South, Inc. TCR series: 2016=9.7 · 2017=9.6 · 2018=6.2 · 2019=74 · 2023=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Gray Metal South, Inc. falls in its industry

1,158 Ducts, sheet metal, manufactur establishments

Safer than 32% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #17 safest of 21 Ducts, sheet metal, manufactur employers in Tennessee.

Gray Metal South, Inc. (55 employees, TCR 6.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 050100150200 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Gray Metal South, Inc.
Gray Metal South, Inc. (55 employees, TCR 6.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Gray Metal South, Inc. has fewer employees than the Ducts, sheet metal, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 74.0 29.6 5 0 0
2018 6.2 6.2 4 0 0
2017 9.6 1.9 5 0 0
2016 9.7 9.7 3 3 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332322 · TN · Humboldt

1,158 Ducts, sheet metal, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 38 employers in Humboldt, 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 5 Point Fabrication, LLC 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Main Facility 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Equipto Electronics 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR MBTechnlogy Inc 6.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Alabama GP Vaccination Department 55 FTE
STATE-SIZE GP Production (Pikeville) 55 FTE
STATE-SIZE Water Department 55 FTE
STATE-SIZE Charleston Site 55 FTE
CITY-NEAR Humboldt Plant 755 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 120 286 FTE
CITY-NEAR 120 246 FTE
CITY-NEAR Humboldt Facility 212 FTE
NAT-TCR P&L Concrete Products, Inc. 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Jarrett Foundations, Inc. 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Cornell Pump Company 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Artisan Electric Inc. 6.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Blue Iron Foundations and Shoring, LLC 55 FTE
NAT-SIZE Administration 55 FTE
NAT-SIZE Exhale Atlanta 55 FTE
NAT-SIZE HA Rider & Son's 55 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: 2023, 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.