Airlocks, fabricated metal plate work, manufacturing · Tennessee

Nucor

Memphis, TN · ~429 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Nucor runs at 40% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Airlocks, fabricated metal plate work, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Nucor: 1.3 TCR = 40% of Airlocks, fabricated metal plate work, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Nucor safety composite

Nucor scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 88% 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

68/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 88% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Nucor: 1.1 → 1.5 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 1.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.72× in 2019

Nucor's TCR rose 0.4 from 1.1 in 2018 to 1.5 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0.72× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332313 · Memphis, TN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.3 · 40% of ind

  • DART 1.0 DART
  • RANK #1/18
  • PHOTO WESTERN WATERWORKS S…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~429 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: WESTERN WATERWORKS SUPPLY (0.0 TCR gap)

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Nucor in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Nucor averages 1.3 TCR (40% of the Airlocks, fabricated metal plate work, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Nucor TCR series: 2018=1.1 · 2019=1.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Nucor falls in its industry

449 Airlocks, fabricated metal pla establishments

Safer than 88% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 18 Airlocks, fabricated metal pla employers in Tennessee.

Nucor (429 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 0100200300400500 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Nucor
Nucor (429 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Nucor has more employees than the Airlocks, fabricated metal plate work, m median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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
2019 1.5 1.0 7 1 0
2018 1.1 0.0 5 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332313 · TN · Memphis

449 Airlocks, fabricated metal plate work, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 1,330 employers in Memphis, 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 WESTERN WATERWORKS SUPPLY 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR CarWil 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR BWX Technologies, LLC 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Earnest Products, Inc. 1.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Total Network Manufacturing LLC 430 FTE
STATE-SIZE MUSIC CITY ANNEX_1532174 428 FTE
STATE-SIZE FedEx Supply Chain-EG1 430 FTE
STATE-SIZE CLARKSVILLE 428 FTE
CITY-NEAR FedEx 2903 SPRANKLE DR 12,398 FTE
CITY-NEAR 381940311 9,861 FTE
CITY-NEAR American Residential Services 5,775 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Jude Children's Research Hospital 5,599 FTE
NAT-TCR Comm HVAC NA and EMEA : SVC-Rocky Mountain District : SVC-Colorado Springs CO-USA 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Macon Hotels III 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Miller Avenue Plant 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR US MD Crisfield Plant 1.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Michels Pipeline- Hollidaysburg, PA 429 FTE
NAT-SIZE Milestone Centers, Inc. 429 FTE
NAT-SIZE Police Heliport/Field Support-FM 429 FTE
NAT-SIZE J.F. Sobieski Mechanical Contractors, Inc. 429 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: 2019, 2018. 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.