Poles, wood, made from from log or bolts · Tennessee

Koppers Sweetwater

Name: Koppers Sweetwater Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Sweetwater, TN · ~17 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

D
Poor Safety Record: 4.1
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Koppers Sweetwater runs at 125% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Poles, wood, made from from log or bolts workplace, earning a grade D.

Koppers Sweetwater: 4.1 TCR = 125% of Poles, wood, made from from log or bolts BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Koppers Sweetwater safety composite

Koppers Sweetwater scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 53%), 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).

67/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 4.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% of industry peers
DART rate: B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% of industry peers
Fatalities: D 0

Safer than 53% 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

−8.2

2021→2022

Koppers Sweetwater injury rate improved

Koppers Sweetwater's TCR fell 8.2 from 8.2 in 2021 to 0.0 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2021 at 8.2 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=8.2 · 2022=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321113 · Sweetwater, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.1 · 125% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #9/25
PHOTO Mountain City
BOOK 2y book
INJ 2 inj
SIZE ~17 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Mountain City (0.0 TCR gap)

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4.1
Mountain City

4.1
Lincoln Lumber

4.1
Clinch River H

4.1
Greentree Lumb

4.1

What this shows Koppers Sweetwater averages 4.1 TCR (125% of the Poles, wood, made from from log or bolts BLS benchmark).

Koppers Sweetwater TCR series: 2021=8.2 · 2022=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Koppers Sweetwater falls in its industry

905 Poles, wood, made from from lo establishments

Safer than 59% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

Grade D

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 25 Poles, wood, made from from lo employers in Tennessee.

Koppers Sweetwater (17 employees, TCR 4.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Koppers Sweetwater has fewer employees than the Poles, wood, made from from log or bolts median and a lower 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
2022	0.0	0.0	0	0	0
2021	8.2	4.1	2	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321113 · TN · Sweetwater

905 Poles, wood, made from from log or bolts employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 28 employers in Sweetwater, TN · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Mountain City	MOUNTAIN CITY, TN	4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Lincoln Lumber Jasper, LLC	JASPER, TX	4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Clinch River Hardwoods, INC Morristown	MORRISTOWN, TN	4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Greentree Lumber	LIBERTY, MS	4.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE	JJ TN Warehouse	WHITE PINE	17 FTE
STATE-SIZE	377 RIVERSIDE DR FRANKLIN TN	FRANKLIN	17 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Champion Window Company of Memphis, LLC	MEMPHIS	17 FTE
STATE-SIZE	VENTURE CONSTRUCTION COMPANY - MEMPHIS	BARTLETT	17 FTE
CITY-NEAR	SCHOTT Gemtron Corporation	Sweetwater	267 FTE
CITY-NEAR	WM 4166	Sweetwater	241 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Gemtron	Sweetwater	231 FTE
CITY-NEAR	4166	Sweetwater	206 FTE
NAT-TCR	Deep Foods Inc	Union, NJ	4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR	352 - Bridgeton	Bridgeton, MO	4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR	626 - Troy-OH	Troy, OH	4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR	Tops #261	Alden, NY	4.1 TCR

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: 2022, 2021. 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.