Machine shops · Tennessee

Protomet - Oak Ridge

Oak Ridge, TN · ~85 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Protomet - Oak Ridge runs at 39% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Machine shops workplace, earning a grade A.

Protomet - Oak Ridge: 1.3 TCR = 39% of Machine shops BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Protomet - Oak Ridge safety composite

Protomet - Oak Ridge scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 85% 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).

C

73/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% 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%).

Protomet - Oak Ridge held a steady TCR band

Protomet - Oak Ridge's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2022 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 3.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=0.0 · 2023=3.9 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332710 · Oak Ridge, TN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.3 · 39% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/20
  • PHOTO Tucson
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~85 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Tucson (0.0 TCR gap)

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Protomet - Oak Ridge in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Protomet - Oak Ridge averages 1.3 TCR (39% of the Machine shops BLS benchmark).

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

Protomet - Oak Ridge TCR series: 2022=0 · 2023=3.9 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Protomet - Oak Ridge falls in its industry

1,821 Machine shops establishments

Safer than 85% 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 #1 safest of 20 Machine shops employers in Tennessee.

Protomet - Oak Ridge (85 employees, TCR 1.3) 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 - Oak Ridge
Protomet - Oak Ridge (85 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Protomet - Oak Ridge 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 3.9 1.3 3 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332710 · TN · Oak Ridge

1,821 Machine shops employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 107 employers in Oak Ridge, 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 Tucson 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Woodward Inc. - Drake Facility 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR MPM Inc. 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bennett Metal Products, Inc. 1.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Harriman Utility Board 85 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cleveland Utilities - Water/Wastewater Division 85 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Parkes Companies 85 FTE
STATE-SIZE 104561 - TVA Allen ALF Ash Pond Closure Project 85 FTE
CITY-NEAR UCOR 1,817 FTE
CITY-NEAR Uranium Processing Facility (UPF) EPC Work) 1,637 FTE
CITY-NEAR Uranium Processng Facility (UPF) (EPC Work) 1,250 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1969-MMC1 1,180 FTE
NAT-TCR Finishing Technology Inc. 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR TWC Concrete LLC 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR US Boiler Co, LLC Centerville Warehouse 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR voestalpine Precision Strip, LLC - Brunswick 1.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Summit Bodyworks 85 FTE
NAT-SIZE CST Industries Conroe 85 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - HEW9 85 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sodexo at Ecu Health North Fns 85 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.