Electric power transmission line and tower construction · Tennessee

L.E. Myers Co.

Chattanooga, TN · ~886 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.6
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

L.E. Myers Co. runs at 57% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Electric power transmission line and tower construction workplace, earning a grade B.

L.E. Myers Co.: 1.6 TCR = 57% of Electric power transmission line and tower construction BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

L.E. Myers Co. safety composite

L.E. Myers Co. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 58% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 49%), 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

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

−0.6

2023→2024

L.E. Myers Co. injury rate improved

L.E. Myers Co.'s TCR fell 0.6 from 1.9 in 2023 to 1.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 1.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.3× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=1.9 · 2024=1.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237130 · Chattanooga, TN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 1.6 · 57% of ind

  • DART 0.5 DART
  • RANK #7/26
  • PHOTO Bauer Underground, I…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 31 inj
  • SIZE ~886 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bauer Underground, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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L.E. Myers Co. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows L.E. Myers Co. averages 1.6 TCR (57% of the Electric power transmission line and tower construction BLS benchmark).

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

L.E. Myers Co. TCR series: 2023=1.9 · 2024=1.3 · BLS 2.8

Where L.E. Myers Co. falls in its industry

1,605 Electric power transmission li establishments

Safer than 58% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 26 Electric power transmission li employers in Tennessee.

L.E. Myers Co. (886 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 2.0 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 02004006008001,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate L.E. Myers Co.
L.E. Myers Co. (886 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 2.0

L.E. Myers Co. has more employees than the Electric power transmission line and tow median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.0. 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 1.3 0.5 11 0 0
2023 1.9 0.9 20 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237130 · TN · Chattanooga

1,605 Electric power transmission line and tower construction 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 Bauer Underground, Inc. 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Henkels & McCoy, Inc. - Portland, OR 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Integrity Network Solutions 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Henkels & McCoy - Hartford, MI 1.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Ultium Cells, LLC Spring Hill 887 FTE
STATE-SIZE Goodwill Memphis Inc. 885 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eagle Bend Manufacturing 888 FTE
STATE-SIZE Howmet - Morristown M1 892 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 Builtrite Interior Construction, Ltd. 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Rieke Office Interiors 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Giombetti Electric Inc. 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR San Pablo Lytton Casino 1.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Manchester Grand Hyatt San Diego 886 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ace Electric Inc. - All Establishments 886 FTE
NAT-SIZE Northeast Methodist Hospital 886 FTE
NAT-SIZE Penfield Site 886 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. 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.