Machine shops · Tennessee

Protomet - Loudon

Loudon, TN · ~188 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Protomet - Loudon runs at 61% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Machine shops workplace, earning a grade B.

Protomet - Loudon: 2.0 TCR = 61% of Machine shops BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Protomet - Loudon safety composite

Protomet - Loudon scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 73% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 48%), 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

59/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% 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

Protomet - Loudon: 1.2 → 2.0 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 2.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.33× in 2024

Protomet - Loudon's TCR rose 0.8 from 1.2 in 2022 to 2.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 2.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.33× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332710 · Loudon, TN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.0 · 61% of ind

  • DART 0.7 DART
  • RANK #4/20
  • PHOTO BMMachine Belleville
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~188 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: BMMachine Belleville (0.0 TCR gap)

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Protomet - Loudon in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Protomet - Loudon averages 2.0 TCR (61% of the Machine shops BLS benchmark).

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

Protomet - Loudon TCR series: 2022=1.2 · 2023=2.9 · 2024=2 · BLS 3.3

Where Protomet - Loudon falls in its industry

1,821 Machine shops establishments

Safer than 73% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

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 20 Machine shops employers in Tennessee.

Protomet - Loudon (188 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 050100150200250 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Protomet - Loudon
Protomet - Loudon (188 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Protomet - Loudon has more employees than the Machine shops median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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
2024 2.0 0.7 3 0 0
2023 2.9 2.9 6 0 0
2022 1.2 0.6 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332710 · TN · Loudon

1,821 Machine shops employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 46 employers in Loudon, 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 BMMachine Belleville 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Comstock Industries 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR HyPro Inc. Platteville (PT) 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR CNC Precision Machine Inc. 2.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Tennessee Pedigree Complex 188 FTE
STATE-SIZE BrightRidge 188 FTE
STATE-SIZE 105778 - Cumberland Combined Cycle Plant 188 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mueller Refrigeration 188 FTE
CITY-NEAR Malibu Boats, LLC TN Operations 622 FTE
CITY-NEAR Monterey Mushrooms Loudon 550 FTE
CITY-NEAR Morgan Olson 491 FTE
CITY-NEAR Monterey Mushrooms 470 FTE
NAT-TCR Winchester Retail Store 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Summit Packaging Systems Racine 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Stykemain Chevrolet LLC 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 80-02 Kew Gardens Road 2.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE University Manor 188 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2001 Marcus Avenue 188 FTE
NAT-SIZE Barry Callebaut 188 FTE
NAT-SIZE Royal Sonesta Boston 188 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.