Chewing tobacco manufacturing · Tennessee

R.C. Owen Company

Gallatin, TN · ~19 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

R.C. Owen Company runs at 59% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Chewing tobacco manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

R.C. Owen Company: 1.9 TCR = 59% of Chewing tobacco manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

R.C. Owen Company safety composite

R.C. Owen Company scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 85% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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

66/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

−11.4

2016→2024

R.C. Owen Company injury rate improved

R.C. Owen Company's TCR fell 11.4 from 11.4 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 11.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=11.4 · 2017=0.0 · 2018=6.1 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 312230 · Gallatin, TN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.9 · 59% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #5/7
  • PHOTO Taylor Brothers
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~19 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Taylor Brothers (0.0 TCR gap)

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R.C. Owen Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows R.C. Owen Company averages 1.9 TCR (59% of the Chewing tobacco manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

R.C. Owen Company TCR series: 2016=11.4 · 2017=0 · 2018=6.1 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where R.C. Owen Company falls in its industry

53 Chewing tobacco manufacturing establishments

Safer than 58% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.1.

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 7 Chewing tobacco manufacturing employers in Tennessee.

R.C. Owen Company (19 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 153 employees and a TCR of 2.1 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 05001,0001,5002,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate R.C. Owen Company
R.C. Owen Company (19 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 153 employees and a TCR of 2.1

R.C. Owen Company has fewer employees than the Chewing tobacco manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.1. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 6.1 6.1 1 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 11.4 11.4 1 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

312230 · TN · Gallatin

53 Chewing tobacco manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 100 employers in Gallatin, TN · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Taylor Brothers 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Swedish Match 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nat Sherman - Greensboro, NC 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hail & Cotton, LLC 1.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE PHOENIX GIN COMPANY 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southwest Tennessee EMC - Covington 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southwest Tennessee EMC - Jackson 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE LC SoBro, LLC 19 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sumner Regional Medical Center LLC 1,068 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gap Inc. - Central Omni 919 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gap Inc. - Gallatin Tennessee Omni 757 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tennessee Fulfillment Center 735 FTE
NAT-TCR Central Valley Vineyards 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Central Paving Inc 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Junction City 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Vcf 101 1.9 TCR

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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.