Barbecues, grills, and braziers manufacturing · Tennessee

Onward Manufacturing Company

Dickson, TN · ~139 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Onward Manufacturing Company runs at 155% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Barbecues, grills, and braziers manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Onward Manufacturing Company: 5.1 TCR = 155% of Barbecues, grills, and braziers manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Onward Manufacturing Company safety composite

Onward Manufacturing Company scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 2%), 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

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% 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

Onward Manufacturing Company: 4.4 → 6.5 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 6.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.27× in 2022

Onward Manufacturing Company's TCR rose 2.1 from 4.4 in 2019 to 6.5 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 1.27× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 335221 · Dickson, TN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.1 · 155% of ind

  • DART 6.5 DART
  • RANK #6/7
  • PHOTO Dacor
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 23 inj
  • SIZE ~139 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Dacor (0.1 TCR gap)

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Onward Manufacturing Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Onward Manufacturing Company averages 5.1 TCR (155% of the Barbecues, grills, and braziers manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-09-26

Onward Manufacturing Company TCR series: 2019=4.4 · 2021=4.4 · 2022=6.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Onward Manufacturing Company falls in its industry

26 Barbecues, grills, and brazier establishments

Safer than 27% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 7 Barbecues, grills, and brazier employers in Tennessee.

Onward Manufacturing Company (139 employees, TCR 5.1) among 17 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 203 employees and a TCR of 3.8 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 18 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 05001,0001,5002,0002,500 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Onward Manufacturing Company
Onward Manufacturing Company (139 employees, TCR 5.1) among 17 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 203 employees and a TCR of 3.8

Onward Manufacturing Company has fewer employees than the Barbecues, grills, and braziers manufact median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.8. 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
2022 6.5 6.5 9 0 0
2021 4.4 3.8 7 0 0
2019 4.4 1.9 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

335221 · TN · Dickson

26 Barbecues, grills, and braziers manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 73 employers in Dickson, 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 Dacor 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Prizer Painter Stove Works 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR MECO 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Viking Range, LLC - Lynx Outdoors 4.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE 026-00590 139 FTE
STATE-SIZE Food City Store #644 139 FTE
STATE-SIZE Erin 139 FTE
STATE-SIZE GENERAL SESSIONS COURT 139 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dickson County Board of Education 1,095 FTE
CITY-NEAR TriStar Horizon Medical Center 773 FTE
CITY-NEAR Express Employment Professonals 500 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dickson County Government 413 FTE
NAT-TCR 1217 - Spokane Valley 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Hartford Health Care 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Reichhold Pensacola 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Tops #220 5.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE 66 - Downers Grove 139 FTE
NAT-SIZE 377 - East Setauket 139 FTE
NAT-SIZE 478 - Hillsborough 139 FTE
NAT-SIZE 601 - Ontario 139 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: 2022, 2021, 2019. 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.