Automobile wrecker (i.e., tow truck) hoists manufacturing · Tennessee

Miller Industries

Ooltewah, TN · ~649 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Miller Industries runs at 202% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Automobile wrecker (i.e., tow truck) hoists manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Miller Industries: 6.7 TCR = 202% of Automobile wrecker (i.e., tow truck) hoists manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Miller Industries safety composite

Miller Industries scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 8%), 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

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% 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

Miller Industries: 5.5 → 8.9 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 8.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.72× in 2021

Miller Industries's TCR rose 3.4 from 5.5 in 2016 to 8.9 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 0.72× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333923 · Ooltewah, TN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 6.7 · 202% of ind

  • DART 4.8 DART
  • RANK #4/4
  • PHOTO LAL Acquisitions INC
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 118 inj
  • SIZE ~649 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: LAL Acquisitions INC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Miller Industries in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Miller Industries averages 6.7 TCR (202% of the Automobile wrecker (i.e., tow truck) hoists manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Miller Industries TCR series: 2016=5.5 · 2019=5.7 · 2021=8.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Miller Industries falls in its industry

157 Automobile wrecker (i.e., tow establishments

Safer than 13% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 4 Automobile wrecker (i.e., tow employers in Tennessee.

Miller Industries (649 employees, TCR 6.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 2.6 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 0200400600800 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Miller Industries
Miller Industries (649 employees, TCR 6.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 2.6

Miller Industries has more employees than the Automobile wrecker (i.e., tow truck) hoi median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.6. 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 8.9 4.8 57 4 0
2019 5.7 1.3 24 19 0
2016 5.5 2.7 37 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333923 · TN · Ooltewah

157 Automobile wrecker (i.e., tow truck) hoists manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 39 employers in Ooltewah, 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 LAL Acquisitions INC 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gorbel, Inc, Pell City 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lift Systems EM Plant 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR PtP Spanco, Inc. 7.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Memphis - 8155 T and B Blvd 649 FTE
STATE-SIZE Resolute Forest Products, Calhoun Operations 650 FTE
STATE-SIZE AS-Murfreesboro Facility-00096 650 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cummins Filtration Inc 648 FTE
CITY-NEAR Physical Therapy Collegedale 6,606 FTE
CITY-NEAR Miller Industries Towing Equipment, Inc. 802 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6458-ZECH 453 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 3835 437 FTE
NAT-TCR C.Q. Insulation, Inc. #731 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Alpine Insulation-Sheboygan #273A 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Vista Quality - Alameda 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Heritage at Falmouth 6.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE TTM Technologies Chippewa Falls 649 FTE
NAT-SIZE Teleflex Morrisville 649 FTE
NAT-SIZE Orthofix Inc. 649 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2045-00012W 649 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, 2019, 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.