Consulting engineers' private practices · Tennessee

Gresham Smith

Nashville, TN · ~1,028 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
0.5
Avg TCR
0.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Gresham Smith runs at 92% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Consulting engineers' private practices workplace, earning a grade C.

Gresham Smith: 0.5 TCR = 92% of Consulting engineers' private practices BLS 0.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Gresham Smith safety composite

Gresham Smith scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 38%), 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

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 0.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% 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%).

Gresham Smith held a steady TCR band

Gresham Smith's TCR held near 0.1 from 0.4 in 2020 to 0.5 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0.2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=0.4 · 2023=0.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 541330 · Nashville, TN AT/BELOW-IND · LARGE

Grade C · TCR 0.5 · 92% of ind

  • DART 0.1 DART
  • RANK #4/8
  • PHOTO Lake Zurich
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~1,028 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Lake Zurich (0.0 TCR gap)

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Gresham Smith in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Gresham Smith averages 0.5 TCR (92% of the Consulting engineers' private practices BLS benchmark).

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

Gresham Smith TCR series: 2020=0.4 · 2023=0.5 · BLS 0.5

Where Gresham Smith falls in its industry

690 Consulting engineers' private establishments

Safer than 70% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 0.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 8 Consulting engineers' private employers in Tennessee.

Gresham Smith (1,028 employees, TCR 0.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 112 employees and a TCR of 0.9 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 01,0002,0003,0004,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Gresham Smith
Gresham Smith (1,028 employees, TCR 0.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 112 employees and a TCR of 0.9

Gresham Smith has more employees than the Consulting engineers' private practices median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 0.9. 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 0.5 0.1 5 1 0
2020 0.4 0.2 3 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

541330 · TN · Nashville

690 Consulting engineers' private practices employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 1,187 employers in Nashville, 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 Lake Zurich 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR LB Civil Construction, Inc. 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Leonardo DRS-Huntsville, AL Facilities 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR RETTEW Associates Inc 0.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE WTC 1,029 FTE
STATE-SIZE Montgomery County Government 1,029 FTE
STATE-SIZE Warren County (BAMG) 1,032 FTE
STATE-SIZE K087-D087 1,023 FTE
CITY-NEAR Parallon Enterprises, LLC 15,267 FTE
CITY-NEAR METROPOLITAN GOVT. OF NASHVILLE,& DAVIDSON COUNTY 10,278 FTE
CITY-NEAR METRO NASHVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOLS 9,049 FTE
CITY-NEAR TriStar Centennial Medical Center 3,106 FTE
NAT-TCR Unit #2524 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR streel erection 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Airport Community Schools 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Measurement Solutions-Boulder Flow 0.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE IWCO Chanhassen 1,028 FTE
NAT-SIZE North Houston Pole Line, L.P. 1,028 FTE
NAT-SIZE Midland Area Office 1,028 FTE
NAT-SIZE CDCR R. A. McGee Training Center - 048 1,028 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, 2020. 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.