Concrete products, precast (except block, brick and pipe), manufacturing · Tennessee

Ken Garner Manufacturing - CHO

Chattanooga, TN · ~97 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ken Garner Manufacturing - CHO runs at 225% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Concrete products, precast (except block, brick and pipe), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Ken Garner Manufacturing - CHO: 7.4 TCR = 225% of Concrete products, precast (except block, brick and pipe), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ken Garner Manufacturing - CHO safety composite

Ken Garner Manufacturing - CHO scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 26%), 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

35/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

2019→2021

Ken Garner Manufacturing - CHO injury rate improved

Ken Garner Manufacturing - CHO's TCR fell 2.3 from 10.6 in 2019 to 8.2 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2019 at 10.6 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.49× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=10.6 · 2020=3.5 · 2021=8.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 327390 · Chattanooga, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.4 · 225% of ind

  • DART 3.7 DART
  • RANK #13/17
  • PHOTO Decatur Wilbert Buri…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 26 inj
  • SIZE ~97 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Decatur Wilbert Burial Vault Company (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ken Garner Manufacturing - CHO in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ken Garner Manufacturing - CHO averages 7.4 TCR (225% of the Concrete products, precast (except block, brick and pipe), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Ken Garner Manufacturing - CHO TCR series: 2019=10.6 · 2020=3.5 · 2021=8.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Ken Garner Manufacturing - CHO falls in its industry

790 Concrete products, precast (ex establishments

Safer than 26% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 17 Concrete products, precast (ex employers in Tennessee.

Ken Garner Manufacturing - CHO (97 employees, TCR 7.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 4.6 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 Ken Garner Manufacturing - CHO
Ken Garner Manufacturing - CHO (97 employees, TCR 7.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 4.6

Ken Garner Manufacturing - CHO has more employees than the Concrete products, precast (except block median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.6. 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 8.2 3.7 9 0 0
2020 3.5 3.5 3 0 0
2019 10.6 0.7 14 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

327390 · TN · Chattanooga

790 Concrete products, precast (except block, brick and pipe), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 695 employers in Chattanooga, 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 Decatur Wilbert Burial Vault Company 7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Steps Plus Inc. 7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dade City Facility 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Marshalltown Pipe & Precast 7.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Main Office 97 FTE
STATE-SIZE Electrical Systems Company, LLC 97 FTE
STATE-SIZE US182: Nashville 289 - SG 97 FTE
STATE-SIZE Walker J Walker 97 FTE
CITY-NEAR CHATTANOOGA COKE 8,650 FTE
CITY-NEAR CHATTANOOGA FOOD 8,650 FTE
CITY-NEAR USXpress 7,385 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cardiology GB 6,606 FTE
NAT-TCR Pyramid Masonry Contractors, FL 7.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Hilty Memorial Home 7.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Ny214-Yapi-Ontario County Ap, Ny214 7.4 TCR
NAT-TCR The Lodge at Mills river 7.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Corona, CA CS Office/Warehouse 97 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tulsa (Ridgeview-SPI) FS (IND, O and G) 97 FTE
NAT-SIZE USCS- Lebanon, IN 97 FTE
NAT-SIZE Forum Energy Technologies - 2005 Garden Rd. 97 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, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.