Lead acid storage batteries manufacturing · Tennessee

Hawker Powersource

Ooltewah, TN · ~216 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hawker Powersource runs at 192% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Lead acid storage batteries manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Hawker Powersource: 6.3 TCR = 192% of Lead acid storage batteries manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hawker Powersource safety composite

Hawker Powersource scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 11%), 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

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% 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%).

Hawker Powersource held a steady TCR band

Hawker Powersource's TCR held near 0.2 from 6.3 in 2016 to 6.6 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2018 at 8.7 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.78× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=6.3 · 2017=6.8 · 2018=8.7 · 2019=4.8 · 2020=8.7 · 2021=2.5 · 2022=6.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 335911 · Ooltewah, TN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.3 · 192% of ind

  • DART 4.9 DART
  • RANK P12
  • PHOTO Battery Builders, LLC
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 90 inj
  • SIZE ~216 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Battery Builders, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hawker Powersource in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hawker Powersource averages 6.3 TCR (192% of the Lead acid storage batteries manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Hawker Powersource TCR series: 2016=6.3 · 2017=6.8 · 2018=8.7 · 2019=4.8 · 2020=8.7 · 2021=2.5 · 2022=6.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Hawker Powersource falls in its industry

161 Lead acid storage batteries ma establishments

Safer than 12% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Hawker Powersource (216 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 107 employees and a TCR of 2.1 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 02,0004,0006,0008,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Hawker Powersource
Hawker Powersource (216 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 107 employees and a TCR of 2.1

Hawker Powersource has more employees than the Lead acid storage batteries manufacturin 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
2022 6.6 4.9 8 0 0
2021 2.5 2.5 5 0 0
2020 8.7 7.2 18 0 0
2019 4.8 3.9 10 1 0
2018 8.7 7.9 21 0 0
2017 6.8 4.8 16 1 0
2016 6.3 4.7 12 3 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

335911 · TN · Ooltewah

161 Lead acid storage batteries manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 39 employers in Ooltewah, 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 Battery Builders, LLC 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ramcar Batteries Inc 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 42 Eighty Four Dr 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Exide Technologies - Columbus 6.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Middle Tennessee Electric Membership Corporation (Corporate) 216 FTE
STATE-SIZE Servall, LLC - Termite/Pest Control/Gutters/Restoration 216 FTE
STATE-SIZE Plant HW 216 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sysco Knoxville 216 FTE
CITY-NEAR Physical Therapy Collegedale 6,606 FTE
CITY-NEAR Miller Industries Towing Equipment, Inc. 802 FTE
CITY-NEAR Miller Industries 649 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6458-ZECH 453 FTE
NAT-TCR G&J Pepsi- Athens 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Keter 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Coca-Cola Bottling Co.- Plymouth, In Division 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Central Transport - 902 6.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE VVF Kansas Services 216 FTE
NAT-SIZE 3495-10D8165 216 FTE
NAT-SIZE 161517-Chi-Ft Dearborn Sta 216 FTE
NAT-SIZE Spartan Reinforcing, LLC - Houston, TX - 200538043 216 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 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.