Gas welding equipment manufacturing · Georgia

J.W. Harris Co. Inc. - Gainesville

Gainesville, GA · ~132 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

J.W. Harris Co. Inc. - Gainesville runs at 65% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Gas welding equipment manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

J.W. Harris Co. Inc. - Gainesville: 2.1 TCR = 65% of Gas welding equipment manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

J.W. Harris Co. Inc. - Gainesville safety composite

J.W. Harris Co. Inc. - Gainesville scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 60% 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

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% 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%).

Rising injury rate

J.W. Harris Co. Inc. - Gainesville: 0.7 → 2.2 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 4.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.34× in 2024

J.W. Harris Co. Inc. - Gainesville's TCR rose 1.5 from 0.7 in 2016 to 2.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 4.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.34× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333992 · Gainesville, GA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.1 · 65% of ind

  • DART 0.7 DART
  • RANK P60
  • PHOTO PRC
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 24 inj
  • SIZE ~132 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: PRC (0.0 TCR gap)

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J.W. Harris Co. Inc. - Gainesville in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows J.W. Harris Co. Inc. - Gainesville averages 2.1 TCR (65% of the Gas welding equipment manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

J.W. Harris Co. Inc. - Gainesville TCR series: 2016=0.7 · 2017=2.8 · 2018=4.8 · 2019=2.2 · 2020=0.8 · 2021=3.6 · 2022=1.4 · 2023=0.7 · 2024=2.2 · BLS 3.3

Where J.W. Harris Co. Inc. - Gainesville falls in its industry

129 Gas welding equipment manufact establishments

Safer than 60% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
J.W. Harris Co. Inc. - Gainesville (132 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 2.8 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 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate J.W. Harris Co. Inc. - Gainesville
J.W. Harris Co. Inc. - Gainesville (132 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 2.8

J.W. Harris Co. Inc. - Gainesville has more employees than the Gas welding equipment manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.8. 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 2.2 0.7 3 0 0
2023 0.7 0.7 1 0 0
2022 1.4 0.0 2 0 0
2021 3.6 0.7 5 0 0
2020 0.8 0.0 0 1 0
2019 2.2 1.4 2 1 0
2018 4.8 0.0 6 1 0
2017 2.8 0.0 4 0 0
2016 0.7 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333992 · GA · Gainesville

129 Gas welding equipment manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 14,941 rated employers in Georgia with headcount on file · 306 employers in Gainesville, GA · 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 PRC 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lincoln Electric Automation Coldwater 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Industrial Equipment Division - North 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR American Weldquip LLC 2.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Smith Douglas G 132 FTE
STATE-SIZE Georgia Feed 132 FTE
STATE-SIZE Shasta Beverages Inc Gainesville 132 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lonesome Oak Trading Co. - Bldg 365 132 FTE
CITY-NEAR Northeast Georgia Medical Center, Inc. 5,384 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kubota Manufacturing of America Corporation 1,863 FTE
CITY-NEAR Poultry Processing 1,546 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mar-Jac Poultry, Inc Processing Plant 1,190 FTE
NAT-TCR Greenville Solution Plant 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR OSG USA, Inc., Cold Forming Division 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR AS&E/Rapiscan 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Nelson Manufacturing Company 2.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ocala RPC 132 FTE
NAT-SIZE Avera Brady Health and Rehab 132 FTE
NAT-SIZE Henkels & McCoy, Tennessee - Chattanooga 132 FTE
NAT-SIZE Howmet - Dover Alloy 132 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, 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.