Mesh, wire, made in wire drawing mills · Tennessee

Insteel Wire Products TNS

Gallatin, TN · ~58 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Insteel Wire Products TNS runs at 139% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Mesh, wire, made in wire drawing mills workplace, earning a grade D.

Insteel Wire Products TNS: 4.6 TCR = 139% of Mesh, wire, made in wire drawing mills BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Insteel Wire Products TNS safety composite

Insteel Wire Products TNS scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 88% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

64/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 88% 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%).

TCR Δ

−6.7

2016→2024

Insteel Wire Products TNS injury rate improved

Insteel Wire Products TNS's TCR fell 6.7 from 8.5 in 2016 to 1.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 8.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=8.5 · 2021=7.0 · 2022=4.3 · 2023=1.5 · 2024=1.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331222 · Gallatin, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.6 · 139% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #2/6
  • PHOTO Tree Island Wire USA…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~58 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Tree Island Wire USA, Inc. San Bernardino (0.0 TCR gap)

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Insteel Wire Products TNS in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Insteel Wire Products TNS averages 4.6 TCR (139% of the Mesh, wire, made in wire drawing mills BLS benchmark).

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

Insteel Wire Products TNS TCR series: 2016=8.5 · 2021=7 · 2022=4.3 · 2023=1.5 · 2024=1.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Insteel Wire Products TNS falls in its industry

163 Mesh, wire, made in wire drawi establishments

Safer than 52% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 6 Mesh, wire, made in wire drawi employers in Tennessee.

Insteel Wire Products TNS (58 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 4.8 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Insteel Wire Products TNS
Insteel Wire Products TNS (58 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 4.8

Insteel Wire Products TNS has fewer employees than the Mesh, wire, made in wire drawing mills median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.8. 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 1.7 0.0 1 0 0
2023 1.5 0.0 1 0 0
2022 4.3 2.1 2 0 0
2021 7.0 2.8 5 0 0
2016 8.5 3.6 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331222 · TN · Gallatin

163 Mesh, wire, made in wire drawing mills employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 100 employers in Gallatin, 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 Tree Island Wire USA, Inc. San Bernardino 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR API Spring 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Avionics 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ardmore Bldg H 4.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Grinder & Haizlip Construction, Inc 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE 8018174 - 1903 Terminal Lobby and IAF 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE Walker Building Group LLC 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE REMBCO GEOTECHNICAL 58 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sumner Regional Medical Center LLC 1,068 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gap Inc. - Central Omni 919 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gap Inc. - Gallatin Tennessee Omni 757 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tennessee Fulfillment Center 735 FTE
NAT-TCR IfA-MKSS 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR CA-Covina S/C 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Cactus Varied Industries 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Kemco Systems 4.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Brawo USA, Inc 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE Royal Green LLC 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE Zeigler Kenosha Subaru 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE Advanced Coatings Inc. - Oshkosh 58 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, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.