Acetylene manufacturing · Tennessee

HGI Chattanooga 07

Chattanooga, TN · ~20 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

HGI Chattanooga 07 runs at 243% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Acetylene manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

HGI Chattanooga 07: 8.0 TCR = 243% of Acetylene manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

HGI Chattanooga 07 safety composite

HGI Chattanooga 07 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 12%), 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

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% 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%).

Rising injury rate

HGI Chattanooga 07: 5.3 → 9.1 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 14.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.57× in 2024

HGI Chattanooga 07's TCR rose 3.8 from 5.3 in 2017 to 9.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 14.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.57× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325120 · Chattanooga, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.0 · 243% of ind

  • DART 4.5 DART
  • RANK #8/9
  • PHOTO The Home City Ice Co…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~20 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: The Home City Ice Company - Lexington - 080 (0.1 TCR gap)

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HGI Chattanooga 07 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows HGI Chattanooga 07 averages 8.0 TCR (243% of the Acetylene manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

HGI Chattanooga 07 TCR series: 2017=5.3 · 2019=14 · 2020=12.5 · 2021=0 · 2022=5 · 2023=10.1 · 2024=9.1 · BLS 3.3

Where HGI Chattanooga 07 falls in its industry

295 Acetylene manufacturing establishments

Safer than 12% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 9 Acetylene manufacturing employers in Tennessee.

HGI Chattanooga 07 (20 employees, TCR 8.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 1.9 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 020406080100120 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate HGI Chattanooga 07
HGI Chattanooga 07 (20 employees, TCR 8.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 1.9

HGI Chattanooga 07 has fewer employees than the Acetylene manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.9. 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
2024 9.1 4.5 2 0 0
2023 10.1 5.0 2 0 0
2022 5.0 5.0 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 12.5 12.5 2 0 0
2019 14.0 14.0 3 0 0
2017 5.3 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325120 · TN · Chattanooga

295 Acetylene manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 695 employers in Chattanooga, 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 The Home City Ice Company - Lexington - 080 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Champaign - Springer 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Home City Ice Company - Detroit - 110 8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR California Tool and Welding Supply 7.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Machine Harvest 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Columbia DREMC 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE CEMC-Gallatin 20 FTE
CITY-NEAR CHATTANOOGA COKE 8,650 FTE
CITY-NEAR CHATTANOOGA FOOD 8,650 FTE
CITY-NEAR USXpress 7,385 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cardiology GB 6,606 FTE
NAT-TCR Propane Delivery 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Palm Garden of Ocala, LLC 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Idaho Cedar Sales 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Crew One Productions - Rothbury 8.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Steps Plus Inc. 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fairbanks Community Food Bank Service 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mathews Brothers Electric, Inc 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Anderson's General Store 20 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2017. 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.