Construction & Forrestry Equipment · Tennessee

Meade Equipment - Chattanooga

Chattanooga, TN · ~18 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
5.1
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Meade Equipment - Chattanooga runs at 232% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Construction & Forrestry Equipment workplace, earning a grade F.

Meade Equipment - Chattanooga: 5.1 TCR = 232% of Construction & Forrestry Equipment BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Meade Equipment - Chattanooga safety composite

Meade Equipment - Chattanooga scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 76% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 22%), 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

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.1 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% 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%).

TCR Δ

−10.8

2020→2023

Meade Equipment - Chattanooga injury rate improved

Meade Equipment - Chattanooga's TCR fell 10.8 from 10.8 in 2020 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2020 at 10.8 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=10.8 · 2021=9.6 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423810 · Chattanooga, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 5.1 · 232% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #8/9
  • PHOTO CB Westbrook Branch
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~18 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: CB Westbrook Branch (0.0 TCR gap)

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Meade Equipment - Chattanooga in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Meade Equipment - Chattanooga averages 5.1 TCR (232% of the Construction & Forrestry Equipment BLS benchmark).

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

Meade Equipment - Chattanooga TCR series: 2020=10.8 · 2021=9.6 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · BLS 2.2

Where Meade Equipment - Chattanooga falls in its industry

533 Construction & Forrestry Equip establishments

Safer than 22% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 9 Construction & Forrestry Equip employers in Tennessee.

Meade Equipment - Chattanooga (18 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 0100200300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Meade Equipment - Chattanooga
Meade Equipment - Chattanooga (18 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Meade Equipment - Chattanooga has fewer employees than the Construction & Forrestry Equipment median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 9.6 9.6 2 0 0
2020 10.8 10.8 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423810 · TN · Chattanooga

533 Construction & Forrestry Equipment 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. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR CB Westbrook Branch 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tyler Equipment Corp - CT 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 02029-02-02-REDDING 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR NTX - Fort Worth 5.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Halls Gin Company 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southwest Tennessee EMC - Atoka 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE sbi Field Operations 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE 505 18 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 B&I Contractors - Fort Myers Service Office 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Omni PGA Frisco Resort 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Avalon Care Center Sonora 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Live Turkey - Dayton VA Hatchery 5.1 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020. 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.