Construction machinery manufacturing · Tennessee

Komatsu America Corp

Chattanooga, TN · ~498 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Komatsu America Corp runs at 28% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Construction machinery manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Komatsu America Corp: 0.9 TCR = 28% of Construction machinery manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Komatsu America Corp safety composite

Komatsu America Corp scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 93% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

73/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 93% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% 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

−0.4

2022→2024

Komatsu America Corp injury rate improved

Komatsu America Corp's TCR fell 0.4 from 1.2 in 2022 to 0.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 1.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.82× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=1.2 · 2023=0.8 · 2024=0.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333120 · Chattanooga, TN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.9 · 28% of ind

  • DART 0.8 DART
  • RANK #2/19
  • PHOTO Wamego Work Tools
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~498 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Wamego Work Tools (0.0 TCR gap)

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Komatsu America Corp in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Komatsu America Corp averages 0.9 TCR (28% of the Construction machinery manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Komatsu America Corp TCR series: 2022=1.2 · 2023=0.8 · 2024=0.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Komatsu America Corp falls in its industry

400 Construction machinery manufac establishments

Safer than 93% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

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 19 Construction machinery manufac employers in Tennessee.

Komatsu America Corp (498 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 87 employees and a TCR of 4.0 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 0200400600 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Komatsu America Corp
Komatsu America Corp (498 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 87 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Komatsu America Corp has more employees than the Construction machinery manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.0. 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 0.8 0.8 3 0 0
2023 0.8 0.6 4 0 0
2022 1.2 0.5 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333120 · TN · Chattanooga

400 Construction machinery 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 Wamego Work Tools 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Waco Work Tools Facility 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Screen Machine Industries LLC 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Master Machine Works, Inc. 0.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE EVERSANA Life Science Services LLC - Memphis, TN 498 FTE
STATE-SIZE 6062 499 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jay-Ton Construction 500 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cabinets To Go 496 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 Sodexo at Central Oregon Cc Bend 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Farason Corporation 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 7102133 FPL Wild Azalea 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR OH_North Canton_5520 Whipple Ave NW_41000300 0.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Tate's Bake Shop 498 FTE
NAT-SIZE Butterball LLC 498 FTE
NAT-SIZE City of Phoenix E80 Library 498 FTE
NAT-SIZE American Engineering Testing 498 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.