Extruded, molded or lathe-cut rubber goods manufacturing · Tennessee

Microporous, LLC

Piney Flats, TN · ~167 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Microporous, LLC runs at 102% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Extruded, molded or lathe-cut rubber goods manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Microporous, LLC: 3.4 TCR = 102% of Extruded, molded or lathe-cut rubber goods manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Microporous, LLC safety composite

Microporous, LLC scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 85% 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

65/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% 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

−3.0

2019→2023

Microporous, LLC injury rate improved

Microporous, LLC's TCR fell 3.0 from 3.4 in 2019 to 0.5 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2020 at 5.8 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=3.4 · 2020=5.8 · 2021=5.0 · 2022=2.2 · 2023=0.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326291 · Piney Flats, TN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.4 · 102% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #8/15
  • PHOTO Vibracoustic USA, In…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 27 inj
  • SIZE ~167 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Vibracoustic USA, Inc. Carmi Mixing Division (0.0 TCR gap)

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Microporous, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Microporous, LLC averages 3.4 TCR (102% of the Extruded, molded or lathe-cut rubber goods manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Microporous, LLC TCR series: 2019=3.4 · 2020=5.8 · 2021=5 · 2022=2.2 · 2023=0.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Microporous, LLC falls in its industry

266 Extruded, molded or lathe-cut establishments

Safer than 55% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.6.

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 15 Extruded, molded or lathe-cut employers in Tennessee.

Microporous, LLC (167 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 3.6 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 0200400600 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Microporous, LLC
Microporous, LLC (167 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 3.6

Microporous, LLC has more employees than the Extruded, molded or lathe-cut rubber goo median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.6. 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
2023 0.5 0.0 1 0 0
2022 2.2 1.1 4 0 0
2021 5.0 2.5 8 2 0
2020 5.8 3.4 8 4 0
2019 3.4 0.6 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326291 · TN · Piney Flats

266 Extruded, molded or lathe-cut rubber goods manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 26 employers in Piney Flats, 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 Vibracoustic USA, Inc. Carmi Mixing Division 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Watson-Marlow Flow Smart Inc. 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Qure Medical 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR AMES RUBBER MANUFACTURING COMPANY, INC. TRI-STATE DIVISION 3.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Installed Building Products of Nashville #741 167 FTE
STATE-SIZE 500 Administration Crane Sales and Service LLC 167 FTE
STATE-SIZE REILY FOODS COMPANY - JFG 167 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rohm and Haas Chemicals LLC - Knoxville, TN 167 FTE
CITY-NEAR HSN Piney Flats 878 FTE
CITY-NEAR HSN Piney Flats TN 587 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bell - BHT Piney Flats 414 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bell Helicopter Piney Flats 392 FTE
NAT-TCR Beck's El Paso 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Theisen's of Marshalltown 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Shoprite of Shelton 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Ventura Transfer Company 3.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ultralife Corporation 167 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gypsum Systems, LLC. 167 FTE
NAT-SIZE Horton Automatics 167 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hulcher Services Inc - Corporate Office 167 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, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.