Cutting machines, metalworking, manufacturing · Tennessee

Protech Metal Finishing

Venore, TN · ~29 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Protech Metal Finishing runs at 140% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Cutting machines, metalworking, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Protech Metal Finishing: 4.6 TCR = 140% of Cutting machines, metalworking, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Protech Metal Finishing safety composite

Protech Metal Finishing scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 75% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 34%), 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).

D

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% 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

−1.5

2022→2024

Protech Metal Finishing injury rate improved

Protech Metal Finishing's TCR fell 1.5 from 3.9 in 2022 to 2.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 7.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=3.9 · 2023=7.7 · 2024=2.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333517 · Venore, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.6 · 140% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #4/7
  • PHOTO Marine Associates
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~29 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Marine Associates (0.0 TCR gap)

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Protech Metal Finishing in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Protech Metal Finishing averages 4.6 TCR (140% of the Cutting machines, metalworking, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Protech Metal Finishing TCR series: 2022=3.9 · 2023=7.7 · 2024=2.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Protech Metal Finishing falls in its industry

391 Cutting machines, metalworking establishments

Safer than 34% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 7 Cutting machines, metalworking employers in Tennessee.

Protech Metal Finishing (29 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 3.4 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 0100200300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Protech Metal Finishing
Protech Metal Finishing (29 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Protech Metal Finishing has fewer employees than the Cutting machines, metalworking, manufact median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.4. 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 2.4 0.0 4 0 0
2023 7.7 0.0 2 0 0
2022 3.9 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333517 · TN · Venore

391 Cutting machines, metalworking, 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 Marine Associates 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 9 Great Hollow 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Broomfield Laboratories Inc 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bobrick Washroom Equipment Inc. 4.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Tosh Pork Crutchfield 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Waynes Fayetteville 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Brookfield Renewable - Brookfield Smoky Mountain Hydro 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE UCEMC Carthage 29 FTE
NAT-TCR Americold Logistics, LLC: Park Rapids 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Ascension Wisconsin Hospital Greenfield Campus 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Fischbach TX 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR LHL Construction 4.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Willacy Co-op 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE City of Woodbury - M Health Fairview Sports Center 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Andersen Logistics - Denver 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE H - Pennsylvania Hospital NICU 29 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.