Ferrous forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished · Tennessee

Lodge Manufacturing

South Pittsburg, TN · ~469 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Lodge Manufacturing runs at 153% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Ferrous forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished workplace, earning a grade D.

Lodge Manufacturing: 5.0 TCR = 153% of Ferrous forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lodge Manufacturing safety composite

Lodge Manufacturing scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 67% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 1%), 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

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 1% 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

−7.1

2016→2024

Lodge Manufacturing injury rate improved

Lodge Manufacturing's TCR fell 7.1 from 11.2 in 2016 to 4.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 11.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.18× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=11.2 · 2017=7.3 · 2018=4.1 · 2019=3.0 · 2020=4.2 · 2021=4.3 · 2022=3.3 · 2023=3.8 · 2024=4.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332111 · South Pittsburg, TN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.0 · 153% of ind

  • DART 0.9 DART
  • RANK #6/10
  • PHOTO Marshalltown - Arkan…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 209 inj
  • SIZE ~469 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Marshalltown - Arkansas Facilities (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lodge Manufacturing in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lodge Manufacturing averages 5.0 TCR (153% of the Ferrous forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished BLS benchmark).

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

Lodge Manufacturing TCR series: 2016=11.2 · 2017=7.3 · 2018=4.1 · 2019=3 · 2020=4.2 · 2021=4.3 · 2022=3.3 · 2023=3.8 · 2024=4.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Lodge Manufacturing falls in its industry

241 Ferrous forgings made from pur establishments

Safer than 49% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 10 Ferrous forgings made from pur employers in Tennessee.

Lodge Manufacturing (469 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 5.0 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 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Lodge Manufacturing
Lodge Manufacturing (469 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 5.0

Lodge Manufacturing has more employees than the Ferrous forgings made from purchased iro median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.0. 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 4.1 0.9 23 0 0
2023 3.8 1.3 21 0 0
2022 3.3 1.1 19 0 0
2021 4.3 0.7 26 0 1
2020 4.2 0.8 20 1 0
2019 3.0 1.7 14 0 0
2018 4.1 2.6 18 1 0
2017 7.3 5.6 29 0 0
2016 11.2 6.0 39 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332111 · TN · South Pittsburg

241 Ferrous forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 12 employers in South Pittsburg, 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 Marshalltown - Arkansas Facilities 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gerdau Lancaster Rail Products 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pearce Foundry 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gauthier Industries Inc 5.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pork Processing 469 FTE
STATE-SIZE Koch Foods of Chattanooga 469 FTE
STATE-SIZE FedEx 3050 WINCHESTER ROAD 469 FTE
STATE-SIZE Smoky Mountain Family Farms LLC - Midway TN Farm 470 FTE
CITY-NEAR Primary Care Marion County 6,606 FTE
CITY-NEAR Plant HW 216 FTE
CITY-NEAR Colonial Chemical, Inc 135 FTE
CITY-NEAR LP South Pittsburg, LLC 104 FTE
NAT-TCR River Lodge Assisted Living, LLC 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Public Works 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Adena Regional Medical Center 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Pacific Surgery Center, LLC 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lakeshore Management 469 FTE
NAT-SIZE General Atomics - Poway - A23 469 FTE
NAT-SIZE Archbold OH 469 FTE
NAT-SIZE Uptown Bakery 469 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.