Truck tractors, road, merchant wholesalers · Tennessee

Lee-Smith

Chattanooga, TN · ~118 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lee-Smith runs at 107% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Truck tractors, road, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade C.

Lee-Smith: 2.4 TCR = 107% of Truck tractors, road, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lee-Smith safety composite

Lee-Smith scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 77% 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

65/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% 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

−1.0

2016→2023

Lee-Smith injury rate improved

Lee-Smith's TCR fell 1.0 from 3.6 in 2016 to 2.6 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2016 at 3.6 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.37× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=3.6 · 2017=2.3 · 2018=1.5 · 2021=1.7 · 2023=2.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423110 · Chattanooga, TN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.4 · 107% of ind

  • DART 0.9 DART
  • RANK #12/29
  • PHOTO MANHEIM DARLINGTON
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~118 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: MANHEIM DARLINGTON (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lee-Smith in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lee-Smith averages 2.4 TCR (107% of the Truck tractors, road, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Lee-Smith TCR series: 2016=3.6 · 2017=2.3 · 2018=1.5 · 2021=1.7 · 2023=2.6 · BLS 2.2

Where Lee-Smith falls in its industry

1,333 Truck tractors, road, merchant establishments

Safer than 77% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 29 Truck tractors, road, merchant employers in Tennessee.

Lee-Smith (118 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.3 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Lee-Smith
Lee-Smith (118 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.3

Lee-Smith has more employees than the Truck tractors, road, merchant wholesale median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.3. 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
2023 2.6 0.9 3 0 0
2021 1.7 0.0 2 0 0
2018 1.5 1.5 2 0 0
2017 2.3 0.8 3 0 0
2016 3.6 2.9 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423110 · TN · Chattanooga

1,333 Truck tractors, road, merchant wholesalers 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 MANHEIM DARLINGTON 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Peterbilt Illinois-Joliet Inc 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 0562 MANHEIM NEVADA 6600 AUCTION LN 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR ADESA Atlanta 2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Performance Contractors, Inc. - Eastman-Kingsport 118 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jolly Roofing & Contracting Nashville Office 118 FTE
STATE-SIZE Concrete Form Erectors 118 FTE
STATE-SIZE Berry Global 118 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 Versa Designed Surfaces 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Pet Supplies Plus 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR RFD Beaufort, INC 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR The Inventors Shop LLC 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Watson-Marlow Inc. 118 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Hain Celestial Group, Inc. 118 FTE
NAT-SIZE John Burns Const Co of Tx 118 FTE
NAT-SIZE Filter Technology Inc 118 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: 2023, 2021, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.