Pallets, wood or wood and metal combination, manufacturing · Tennessee

Palatec Mfg Inc

Fayetteville, TN · ~26 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Palatec Mfg Inc runs at 30% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Pallets, wood or wood and metal combination, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Palatec Mfg Inc: 1.0 TCR = 30% of Pallets, wood or wood and metal combination, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Palatec Mfg Inc safety composite

Palatec Mfg Inc scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 97% 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).

B

82/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 97% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% 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%).

TCR Δ

−3.0

2017→2019

Palatec Mfg Inc injury rate improved

Palatec Mfg Inc's TCR fell 3.0 from 3.0 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2017 at 3.0 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=3.0 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321920 · Fayetteville, TN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.0 · 30% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #5/38
  • PHOTO Southern Packaging I…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~26 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Southern Packaging Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Palatec Mfg Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Palatec Mfg Inc averages 1.0 TCR (30% of the Pallets, wood or wood and metal combination, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Palatec Mfg Inc TCR series: 2017=3 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Palatec Mfg Inc falls in its industry

952 Pallets, wood or wood and meta establishments

Safer than 97% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 38 Pallets, wood or wood and meta employers in Tennessee.

Palatec Mfg Inc (26 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 6.3 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 Palatec Mfg Inc
Palatec Mfg Inc (26 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 6.3

Palatec Mfg Inc has fewer employees than the Pallets, wood or wood and metal combinat median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.3. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 3.0 3.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321920 · TN · Fayetteville

952 Pallets, wood or wood and metal combination, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 36 employers in Fayetteville, 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 Southern Packaging Inc. 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Propak - Bentonville, AR-134 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kamps Atlanta 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wooden Pallets, LTD 1.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Buy Sod - Nashville 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tobacco Pride 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tennessee Farms 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE CEMC-Springfield 26 FTE
CITY-NEAR FAYETTEVILLE PLANT 832 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 314 311 FTE
CITY-NEAR Grammer-TMD 293 FTE
CITY-NEAR 314 285 FTE
NAT-TCR iFLY Corporate Support Center 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR GA- Siskorsky 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Stryver Manufacturing, Inc. 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Champaign, IL 1.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Texas Drivers 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE West Marine Store #1290 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Manufacturing 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Spence Trucking 26 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, 2017. 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.