Forestry machinery and equipment repair and maintenance services · Tennessee

Meade Equipment, LLC

Kingsport, TN · ~57 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.1
Avg TCR
2.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Meade Equipment, LLC runs at 100% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Forestry machinery and equipment repair and maintenance services workplace, earning a grade C.

Meade Equipment, LLC: 2.1 TCR = 100% of Forestry machinery and equipment repair and maintenance services BLS 2.1 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Meade Equipment, LLC safety composite

Meade Equipment, LLC scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 76% 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

64/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 61% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% 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

−7.4

2018→2023

Meade Equipment, LLC injury rate improved

Meade Equipment, LLC's TCR fell 7.4 from 7.4 in 2018 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2018 at 7.4 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=7.4 · 2019=3.0 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 811310 · Kingsport, TN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.1 · 100% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #22/67
  • PHOTO Ryder FMS
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~57 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ryder FMS (0.0 TCR gap)

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Meade Equipment, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Meade Equipment, LLC averages 2.1 TCR (100% of the Forestry machinery and equipment repair and maintenance services BLS benchmark).

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

Meade Equipment, LLC TCR series: 2018=7.4 · 2019=3 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · BLS 2.1

Where Meade Equipment, LLC falls in its industry

2,560 Forestry machinery and equipme establishments

Safer than 61% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #22 safest of 67 Forestry machinery and equipme employers in Tennessee.

Meade Equipment, LLC (57 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 2.7 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 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Meade Equipment, LLC
Meade Equipment, LLC (57 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 2.7

Meade Equipment, LLC has more employees than the Forestry machinery and equipment repair median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.7. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 3.0 2.3 4 0 0
2018 7.4 0.0 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

811310 · TN · Kingsport

2,560 Forestry machinery and equipment repair and maintenance services 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 Ryder FMS 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR MacAllister Machinery Washington 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ryder Location 2765 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR NOV FID 1444 ISE New Iberia 2.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Middle TN Electric Membership Corporation (Downtown) 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Christman Company - Knoxville, TN 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hawkins Asphalt Paving Main Office 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE Concrete Polishing Technologies, Inc. 57 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 Seneca Wastewater Treatment Plant 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Farmers Cooperative Company 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Lonestar Distribution - Pecos 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Pemiscot Memorial health system 2.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE United Envelope 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE Masonite Components - Wahpeton 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE Flavors 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wireline - San Antonio, TX 57 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, 2019, 2018. 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.