Construction & Forrestry Equipment · Tennessee

Meade Equipment-KINGSPORT

Kingsport, TN · ~31 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.8
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Meade Equipment-KINGSPORT runs at 37% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Construction & Forrestry Equipment workplace, earning a grade A.

Meade Equipment-KINGSPORT: 0.8 TCR = 37% of Construction & Forrestry Equipment BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Meade Equipment-KINGSPORT safety composite

Meade Equipment-KINGSPORT scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 93% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

B

76/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 93% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Meade Equipment-KINGSPORT: 0.0 → 3.3 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 3.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2023

Meade Equipment-KINGSPORT's TCR rose 3.3 from 0.0 in 2020 to 3.3 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423810 · Kingsport, TN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.8 · 37% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #2/9
  • PHOTO Abington
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~31 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Abington (0.0 TCR gap)

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Meade Equipment-KINGSPORT in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Meade Equipment-KINGSPORT averages 0.8 TCR (37% 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-KINGSPORT TCR series: 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=3.3 · BLS 2.2

Where Meade Equipment-KINGSPORT falls in its industry

533 Construction & Forrestry Equip establishments

Safer than 93% 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 #2 safest of 9 Construction & Forrestry Equip employers in Tennessee.

Meade Equipment-KINGSPORT (31 employees, TCR 0.8) 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-KINGSPORT
Meade Equipment-KINGSPORT (31 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Meade Equipment-KINGSPORT has fewer employees than the Construction & Forrestry Equipment median and a lower 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 3.3 0.0 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423810 · TN · Kingsport

533 Construction & Forrestry Equipment employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 152 employers in Kingsport, 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 Abington 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Empire Southwest, LLC - Imperial 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Atlanta Parts Distribution Center 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Peterson Tractor Chico 0.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Humboldt Hatchery 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cairo Farmers Gin, LLC 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE 0000000932 WATER/SEWER-SEWER FCLTY MAINT 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE George W Reagan Company 31 FTE
CITY-NEAR Eastman Kingsport Site 7,258 FTE
CITY-NEAR Holston Valley Medical Center 1,733 FTE
CITY-NEAR Eastman Chemical Company Kinsport TN- BSL 1,206 FTE
CITY-NEAR BLUE RIDGE MEDICAL MANAGEMENT CORPORATION - VA 1,073 FTE
NAT-TCR MCP Business Solutions, Inc. 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Ghent 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Towson Town Center 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Liberty Pressed Metals LLC 0.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Atlanta Commerical Millworks, Inc 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Heritage Cooperative: Canfield Grain, Energy, Office, & Store 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hampel Oil Distributors Inc. - Wichita KS 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Barney Davis, LLC 31 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, 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.