Flexible packaging, plastics film, manufacturing · Tennessee

Novolex

Chattanooga, Tn, TN · ~335 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Novolex runs at 37% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Flexible packaging, plastics film, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Novolex: 1.2 TCR = 37% of Flexible packaging, plastics film, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Novolex safety composite

Novolex scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 79% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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)
B 1.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% 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

Novolex: 0.9 → 2.1 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 2.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.67× in 2024

Novolex's TCR rose 1.3 from 0.9 in 2022 to 2.1 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.67× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326112 · Chattanooga, Tn, TN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.2 · 37% of ind

  • DART 0.8 DART
  • RANK #2/11
  • PHOTO Carol Stream PD2
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~335 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Carol Stream PD2 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Novolex in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Novolex averages 1.2 TCR (37% of the Flexible packaging, plastics film, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Novolex TCR series: 2022=0.9 · 2023=0.6 · 2024=2.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Novolex falls in its industry

396 Flexible packaging, plastics f establishments

Safer than 79% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

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 11 Flexible packaging, plastics f employers in Tennessee.

Novolex (335 employees, TCR 1.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 90 employees and a TCR of 2.4 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Novolex
Novolex (335 employees, TCR 1.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 90 employees and a TCR of 2.4

Novolex has more employees than the Flexible packaging, plastics film, manuf median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.4. 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 2.1 0.8 8 0 0
2023 0.6 0.3 2 0 0
2022 0.9 0.0 1 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326112 · TN · Chattanooga, Tn

396 Flexible packaging, plastics film, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 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 Carol Stream PD2 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Berry Global Inc. (TUOK Facility) 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bemis North America - RE&D 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Plitek LLC 1.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE DWK Rockwood 335 FTE
STATE-SIZE 113 LaVergne 335 FTE
STATE-SIZE JHCYTNEK - AT&T Mobility Services LLC 335 FTE
STATE-SIZE Baptist Memorial Hospital - Union City 335 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Forward Group, Inc. 57 FTE
NAT-TCR CGI Federal Inc - Tucson Passport Center 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR INFRASYS 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Sonesta Simply Suites Seattle Renton 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Endeavor Air, Inc. - MSP Flight Operations and Inflight Base 1.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Associates in Pediatric Therapy 335 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wabash Goshen 335 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bonnell Aluminum (Clearfield), Inc. 335 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Chef's Warehouse Mid-Atlantic, LLC- Jessup, MD 335 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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