Burial caskets and cases manufacturing · Tennessee

Manchester Mfg. Plant

Manchester, TN · ~356 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Manchester Mfg. Plant runs at 150% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Burial caskets and cases manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Manchester Mfg. Plant: 5.0 TCR = 150% of Burial caskets and cases manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Manchester Mfg. Plant safety composite

Manchester Mfg. Plant scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 13%), 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).

F

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Manchester Mfg. Plant: 2.1 → 7.8 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 7.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.36× in 2021

Manchester Mfg. Plant's TCR rose 5.6 from 2.1 in 2016 to 7.8 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 1.36× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 339995 · Manchester, TN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.0 · 150% of ind

  • DART 6.7 DART
  • RANK P42
  • PHOTO PBF Manufacturing Co…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 46 inj
  • SIZE ~356 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: PBF Manufacturing Co Inc. (0.3 TCR gap)

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Manchester Mfg. Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Manchester Mfg. Plant averages 5.0 TCR (150% of the Burial caskets and cases manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-09-26

Manchester Mfg. Plant TCR series: 2016=2.1 · 2021=7.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Manchester Mfg. Plant falls in its industry

19 Burial caskets and cases manuf establishments

Safer than 42% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Manchester Mfg. Plant (356 employees, TCR 5.0) among 14 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 4.6 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 15 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 0100200300400 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Manchester Mfg. Plant
Manchester Mfg. Plant (356 employees, TCR 5.0) among 14 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 4.6

Manchester Mfg. Plant has more employees than the Burial caskets and cases manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.6. 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
2021 7.8 6.7 37 0 0
2016 2.1 1.4 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

339995 · TN · Manchester

19 Burial caskets and cases manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 43 employers in Manchester, 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 PBF Manufacturing Co Inc. 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Andalusia Plant 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Batesville Casket Stamping Plant 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Matthews Aurora Funeral Solutions 4.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Nashville 037 356 FTE
STATE-SIZE 304 356 FTE
STATE-SIZE RADIANS, INC. (TN-CORPORATE) 356 FTE
STATE-SIZE CEVA Logistics BW2 16800286 356 FTE
CITY-NEAR Manchester / Smyrna 971 FTE
CITY-NEAR Viam Manufacturing, Inc. 523 FTE
CITY-NEAR Great Lakes Cheese Company, Inc. - Manchester 475 FTE
CITY-NEAR Great Lakes Cheese of Tennessee, Inc. 361 FTE
NAT-TCR Langston Bags in West Memphis, AR 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Synergy Equipment Corp. dba Bobcat of Miami 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Breda Company, Inc. DFW 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Dsg Davis 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE St. CLoud Casting 356 FTE
NAT-SIZE Birchaven Village 356 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6458-ZDET 356 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1029 - Covington Wa Whse 356 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: 2021, 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.