Boats (i.e., suitable or intended for personal use) manufacturing · Tennessee

Jackson kayak

Sparta, TN · ~117 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Jackson kayak runs at 207% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Boats (i.e., suitable or intended for personal use) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Jackson kayak: 6.8 TCR = 207% of Boats (i.e., suitable or intended for personal use) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Jackson kayak safety composite

Jackson kayak scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 61% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 31%), 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).

D

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 61% 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

−2.3

2016→2024

Jackson kayak injury rate improved

Jackson kayak's TCR fell 2.3 from 4.8 in 2016 to 2.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 12.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.18× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=4.8 · 2017=12.3 · 2018=7.7 · 2021=8.6 · 2022=8.3 · 2023=3.4 · 2024=2.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336612 · Sparta, TN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 6.8 · 207% of ind

  • DART 1.3 DART
  • RANK #11/11
  • PHOTO Duffy Electric Boats…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 38 inj
  • SIZE ~117 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Duffy Electric Boats Company (0.0 TCR gap)

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Jackson kayak in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Jackson kayak averages 6.8 TCR (207% of the Boats (i.e., suitable or intended for personal use) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Jackson kayak TCR series: 2016=4.8 · 2017=12.3 · 2018=7.7 · 2021=8.6 · 2022=8.3 · 2023=3.4 · 2024=2.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Jackson kayak falls in its industry

249 Boats (i.e., suitable or inten establishments

Safer than 31% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 11 Boats (i.e., suitable or inten employers in Tennessee.

Jackson kayak (117 employees, TCR 6.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 121 employees and a TCR of 5.2 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Jackson kayak
Jackson kayak (117 employees, TCR 6.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 121 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Jackson kayak has fewer employees than the Boats (i.e., suitable or intended for pe median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.2. 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 2.5 1.3 2 0 0
2023 3.4 1.7 2 0 0
2022 8.3 6.3 7 1 0
2021 8.6 6.0 10 0 0
2018 7.7 6.2 5 0 0
2017 12.3 12.3 5 0 0
2016 4.8 1.4 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336612 · TN · Sparta

249 Boats (i.e., suitable or intended for personal use) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 33 employers in Sparta, 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 Duffy Electric Boats Company 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bay Welding Services INC 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tracker Marine-Midway 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Plant 2 6.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE The Cottage Gardens Inc. 117 FTE
STATE-SIZE United Elevator Services, LLC 117 FTE
STATE-SIZE Precision Walls Inc-Nashville 117 FTE
STATE-SIZE Holliston Holdings, LLC 117 FTE
CITY-NEAR Life Force Sparta 6,606 FTE
CITY-NEAR Altium Packaging - Sparta 396 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tri State Distribution, Inc 360 FTE
CITY-NEAR THK Rhythm North America 275 FTE
NAT-TCR Sky Ridge Medical Center 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Tompkins Family Farms. LLC 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Tidewater Lumber & Moulding, Inc 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Wayne Densch, Inc 6.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE SAS Global Corporation 117 FTE
NAT-SIZE Houston Plating Company - South Houston 117 FTE
NAT-SIZE Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics Granville 117 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pine Grove Middle School 117 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, 2018, 2017, 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.