Beer merchant wholesalers · Tennessee

HFC - Chattanooga

Soddy Daisy, TN · ~91 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
4.5
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

HFC - Chattanooga runs at 206% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Beer merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

HFC - Chattanooga: 4.5 TCR = 206% of Beer merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

HFC - Chattanooga safety composite

HFC - Chattanooga scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

62/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% of industry peers

DART rate
C 3.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% 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%).

HFC - Chattanooga held a steady TCR band

HFC - Chattanooga's TCR held near 0.0 from 4.5 in 2016 to 4.5 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 5.6 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.74× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=4.5 · 2018=3.5 · 2019=5.6 · 2020=4.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424810 · Soddy Daisy, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 4.5 · 206% of ind

  • DART 3.3 DART
  • RANK #3/11
  • PHOTO Harris Beverages LLC
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~91 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Harris Beverages LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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HFC - Chattanooga in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows HFC - Chattanooga averages 4.5 TCR (206% of the Beer merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

HFC - Chattanooga TCR series: 2016=4.5 · 2018=3.5 · 2019=5.6 · 2020=4.5 · BLS 2.2

Where HFC - Chattanooga falls in its industry

664 Beer merchant wholesalers establishments

Safer than 70% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 11 Beer merchant wholesalers employers in Tennessee.

HFC - Chattanooga (91 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 6.4 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 0100200300400500 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate HFC - Chattanooga
HFC - Chattanooga (91 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 6.4

HFC - Chattanooga has fewer employees than the Beer merchant wholesalers median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.4. 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
2020 4.5 3.3 4 0 0
2019 5.6 4.2 4 0 0
2018 3.5 2.4 3 0 0
2016 4.5 3.4 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424810 · TN · Soddy Daisy

664 Beer merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 15 employers in Soddy Daisy, 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 Harris Beverages LLC 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR KOHLFELD DISTRIBUTING, INC. 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hickory Division 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Columbia Distributing Santa Rosa 4.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE PRI of East TN, Inc. 91 FTE
STATE-SIZE US180: Knoxville 290 - SG 91 FTE
STATE-SIZE H & M Industrial Services, Inc. 91 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rawso Constructors 91 FTE
CITY-NEAR Primary Care Soddy Daisy 6,606 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 477 263 FTE
CITY-NEAR 477 242 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sequoyah Nuclear Plant 231 FTE
NAT-TCR Reflections Landscape Maintenance Inc. 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Mahoney Environmental Operations 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Houston Tx (10001 Market St) Depot 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR LCS:LC044 - LC044-Nokesville, VA 4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Cypress Manufacturing - Zabala Farm 91 FTE
NAT-SIZE EPC Wichita Falls 91 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bradenton Oaks 91 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hartford 91 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: 2020, 2019, 2018, 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.