Casings, sausage, nonrigid plastics, manufacturing · Tennessee

Innovate Manufacturing, Inc

Name: Innovate Manufacturing, Inc Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Knoxville, TN · ~62 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

D
Poor Safety Record: 5.6
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Innovate Manufacturing, Inc runs at 170% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Casings, sausage, nonrigid plastics, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Innovate Manufacturing, Inc: 5.6 TCR = 170% of Casings, sausage, nonrigid plastics, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Innovate Manufacturing, Inc safety composite

Innovate Manufacturing, Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 15%), 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).

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 5.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% of industry peers
DART rate: F 5.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% of industry peers
Fatalities: D 0

Safer than 50% 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%).

Innovate Manufacturing, Inc held a steady TCR band

Innovate Manufacturing, Inc's TCR held near 0.3 from 5.8 in 2020 to 5.4 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 5.8 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.97× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=5.8 · 2021=5.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326121 · Knoxville, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.6 · 170% of ind

DART 5.4 DART
RANK #3/4
PHOTO GEOTEK
BOOK 2y book
INJ 6 inj
SIZE ~62 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: GEOTEK (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Innovate Manufacturing, Inc averages 5.6 TCR (170% of the Casings, sausage, nonrigid plastics, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Innovate Manufacturing, Inc TCR series: 2020=5.8 · 2021=5.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Innovate Manufacturing, Inc falls in its industry

202 Casings, sausage, nonrigid pla establishments

Safer than 24% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

Grade D

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 4 Casings, sausage, nonrigid pla employers in Tennessee.

Innovate Manufacturing, Inc (62 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 71 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Innovate Manufacturing, Inc has fewer employees than the Casings, sausage, nonrigid plastics, man median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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
2021	5.4	5.4	4	0	0
2020	5.8	3.9	2	1	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326121 · TN · Knoxville

202 Casings, sausage, nonrigid plastics, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 747 employers in Knoxville, TN · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	GEOTEK	STEWARTVILLE, MN	5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Atkore Cascade Poly Pipe & Conduit	WOODBURN, OR	5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Omega Plastics, LLC	CARROLLTON, TX	5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	VEKA West	RENO, NV	5.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Rogers Group inc-Southern TN Construction	LAWRENCEBURG	62 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Dimecobros Nashville	GOODLETTSVILLE	62 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Volunteer Electric	NASHVILLE	62 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Combustion & Controls Solutions, Inc.	CHATTANOOGA	62 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Cellular Sales Services Group LLC	Knoxville	6,387 FTE
CITY-NEAR	University Health System, Inc	Knoxville	5,215 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Functional Pathways of TN LLC	Knoxville	2,258 FTE
CITY-NEAR	HES Facilities Services K-12	Knoxville	2,157 FTE
NAT-TCR	18 - Avon	Avon, OH	5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	WMS Junction City	Junction City, KS	5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Luther Infiniti of Bloomington	Bloomington, MN	5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Sam's Xpress Car Wash 301	Fort Mill, SC	5.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Graduate Richmond	Richmond, VA	62 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Graduate Oxford	Oxford, MS	62 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Graduate Cincinnati	Cincinnati, OH	62 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Industrial Timber Hiddenite	Hiddenite, NC	62 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: 2021, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.