Cold forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished · Tennessee

Modern Forge

Piney Flats, TN · ~179 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Modern Forge runs at 173% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Cold forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished workplace, earning a grade D.

Modern Forge: 5.7 TCR = 173% of Cold forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Modern Forge safety composite

Modern Forge scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 38%), 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

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% 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

−2.1

2022→2024

Modern Forge injury rate improved

Modern Forge's TCR fell 2.1 from 7.0 in 2022 to 5.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 7.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.54× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=7.0 · 2023=5.1 · 2024=5.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332111 · Piney Flats, TN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.7 · 173% of ind

  • DART 3.1 DART
  • RANK #7/10
  • PHOTO ATI Forged Products …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 33 inj
  • SIZE ~179 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ATI Forged Products - Lebanon (0.0 TCR gap)

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Modern Forge in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Modern Forge averages 5.7 TCR (173% of the Cold forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished BLS benchmark).

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

Modern Forge TCR series: 2022=7 · 2023=5.1 · 2024=5 · BLS 3.3

Where Modern Forge falls in its industry

241 Cold forgings made from purcha establishments

Safer than 39% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 10 Cold forgings made from purcha employers in Tennessee.

Modern Forge (179 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 5.0 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 0100200300400 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Modern Forge
Modern Forge (179 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 5.0

Modern Forge has more employees than the Cold forgings made from purchased iron o median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.0. 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
2024 5.0 3.1 7 1 0
2023 5.1 4.6 10 0 0
2022 7.0 3.7 16 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332111 · TN · Piney Flats

241 Cold forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished 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 ATI Forged Products - Lebanon 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rail Exchange, Inc. 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Federal Carbide Company, Inc 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Molycop USA 5.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Tosh Pork HQ 179 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rogers Group Inc - EMTN 179 FTE
STATE-SIZE IBP of Nashville 179 FTE
STATE-SIZE Advanced Composites 179 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 Melrose Park Il - 3323 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR St. Ann Mo - 3318 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Americold Logistics, LLC: Newport 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR TMX2139 5.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE 7601-Pdllc-Loyola University 179 FTE
NAT-SIZE Elkhorn Ne - 3230 179 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fridley Mn - 3018 179 FTE
NAT-SIZE Green Bay East Wi - 3123 179 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: 2024, 2023, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.