Air-conditioning equipment (except room units) merchant wholesalers · Tennessee

Kele, Inc.

Bartlett, TN · ~261 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.3
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kele, Inc. runs at 60% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Air-conditioning equipment (except room units) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade B.

Kele, Inc.: 1.3 TCR = 60% of Air-conditioning equipment (except room units) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kele, Inc. safety composite

Kele, Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 75% 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

62/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% 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%).

Kele, Inc. held a steady TCR band

Kele, Inc.'s TCR held near 0.2 from 0.9 in 2022 to 1.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 1.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.29× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=0.9 · 2023=1.9 · 2024=1.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423730 · Bartlett, TN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 1.3 · 60% of ind

  • DART 0.4 DART
  • RANK #3/11
  • PHOTO Mingledorff's - Macon
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~261 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Mingledorff's - Macon (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kele, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kele, Inc. averages 1.3 TCR (60% of the Air-conditioning equipment (except room units) merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Kele, Inc. TCR series: 2022=0.9 · 2023=1.9 · 2024=1.2 · BLS 2.2

Where Kele, Inc. falls in its industry

290 Air-conditioning equipment (ex establishments

Safer than 75% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

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 11 Air-conditioning equipment (ex employers in Tennessee.

Kele, Inc. (261 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Kele, Inc.
Kele, Inc. (261 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Kele, Inc. has more employees than the Air-conditioning equipment (except room median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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 1.2 0.4 3 0 0
2023 1.9 1.4 4 0 0
2022 0.9 0.9 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423730 · TN · Bartlett

290 Air-conditioning equipment (except room units) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 70 employers in Bartlett, 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 Mingledorff's - Macon 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lute Supply 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR TNKIN 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR HUNTON DISTRIBUTION 1.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Middle Tennessee Electric (Central Office) 261 FTE
STATE-SIZE Marshall Medical Center 261 FTE
STATE-SIZE Flowers Bakery of Cleveland 262 FTE
STATE-SIZE TUTCO Inc. 262 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Bartlett 723 FTE
CITY-NEAR City Hall 719 FTE
CITY-NEAR Saint Francis Hospital - Bartlett 673 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4701-569 598 FTE
NAT-TCR 9 - Rochester 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Airmark Components, Inc. 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Nucor Steel Auburn, Inc 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Alliance Sheets, LLC 1.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Middlesex Community College 261 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rockmart 261 FTE
NAT-SIZE Generac Power Systems 261 FTE
NAT-SIZE Chicago Corporate 261 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. 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.