Acetal resins manufacturing · Tennessee

Primester

Kingsport, TN · ~76 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Primester runs at 73% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Acetal resins manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Primester: 2.4 TCR = 73% of Acetal resins manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Primester safety composite

Primester scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 77% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 41%), 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

56/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% 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

Primester: 1.1 → 3.7 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 3.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2021

Primester's TCR rose 2.6 from 1.1 in 2017 to 3.7 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325211 · Kingsport, TN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.4 · 73% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #11/14
  • PHOTO EMS-CHEMIE (North Am…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~76 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: EMS-CHEMIE (North America) Inc., USA (0.0 TCR gap)

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Primester in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Primester averages 2.4 TCR (73% of the Acetal resins manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Primester TCR series: 2017=1.1 · 2021=3.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Primester falls in its industry

644 Acetal resins manufacturing establishments

Safer than 41% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 14 Acetal resins manufacturing employers in Tennessee.

Primester (76 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 2.0 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 05001,0001,500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Primester
Primester (76 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 2.0

Primester has more employees than the Acetal resins manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.0. 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
2021 3.7 0.0 2 1 0
2017 1.1 0.0 0 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325211 · TN · Kingsport

644 Acetal resins manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 152 employers in Kingsport, 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 EMS-CHEMIE (North America) Inc., USA 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lucas Ferry - Custom Polymers PET LLC 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wilkinson Street - Custom Polymers PET LLC 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Shakespeare 2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Kingsport Svc Ctr 76 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dickson Electric System 76 FTE
STATE-SIZE Knoxville 76 FTE
STATE-SIZE Frontier Basement Systems 76 FTE
CITY-NEAR Eastman Kingsport Site 7,258 FTE
CITY-NEAR Holston Valley Medical Center 1,733 FTE
CITY-NEAR Eastman Chemical Company Kinsport TN- BSL 1,206 FTE
CITY-NEAR BLUE RIDGE MEDICAL MANAGEMENT CORPORATION - VA 1,073 FTE
NAT-TCR Conestoga Landfill 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Usaa Tampa Cafe 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR IKONICS Commonwealth Ave 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR General Surgery 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE John H. Myers & Son - York 76 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4818-MDMD 76 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4818-MSJK 76 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sodexo at Ut-El Paso - Catering 76 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: 2021, 2017. 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.