Ductile iron foundries · Tennessee

Mueller Company - Chattanooga

Chattanooga, TN · ~397 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Mueller Company - Chattanooga runs at 108% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Ductile iron foundries workplace, earning a grade C.

Mueller Company - Chattanooga: 3.6 TCR = 108% of Ductile iron foundries BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Mueller Company - Chattanooga safety composite

Mueller Company - Chattanooga scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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

75/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 3.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

−5.0

2016→2017

Mueller Company - Chattanooga injury rate improved

Mueller Company - Chattanooga's TCR fell 5.0 from 6.1 in 2016 to 1.1 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 6.1 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0.07× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=6.1 · 2017=1.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331511 · Chattanooga, TN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.6 · 108% of ind

  • DART 0.3 DART
  • RANK #2/8
  • PHOTO EJ Co.
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 27 inj
  • SIZE ~397 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: EJ Co. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Mueller Company - Chattanooga in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Mueller Company - Chattanooga averages 3.6 TCR (108% of the Ductile iron foundries BLS benchmark).

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

Mueller Company - Chattanooga TCR series: 2016=6.1 · 2017=1.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Mueller Company - Chattanooga falls in its industry

272 Ductile iron foundries establishments

Safer than 79% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 7.2.

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 8 Ductile iron foundries employers in Tennessee.

Mueller Company - Chattanooga (397 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 112 employees and a TCR of 7.2 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 Mueller Company - Chattanooga
Mueller Company - Chattanooga (397 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 112 employees and a TCR of 7.2

Mueller Company - Chattanooga has more employees than the Ductile iron foundries median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 7.2. 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
2017 1.1 0.3 4 0 0
2016 6.1 2.6 23 3 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331511 · TN · Chattanooga

272 Ductile iron foundries employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 695 employers in Chattanooga, 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 EJ Co. 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Clow Valve Company - Metal Casting Facility 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gunite Corporation 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Austin Gray Iron Foundry 3.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Olympus Bartlett 397 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1248 397 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 672 397 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 599 397 FTE
CITY-NEAR CHATTANOOGA COKE 8,650 FTE
CITY-NEAR CHATTANOOGA FOOD 8,650 FTE
CITY-NEAR USXpress 7,385 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cardiology GB 6,606 FTE
NAT-TCR Cuba Manor Inc 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR ANCHR - Charlotte- NC 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 21Z3-U3 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Plainville Community Schools Toffolon Elementary School 3.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Greenville (Scgrv) 397 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ups National Turnpike (Kynat) 397 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cordova (Casmt) 397 FTE
NAT-SIZE VINNVABM 397 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: 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.