Pipe, metal, merchant wholesalers · Tennessee

Ryerson - Southern Tool Steel - Chattanooga

Chattanooga, TN · ~57 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.2
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ryerson - Southern Tool Steel - Chattanooga runs at 146% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Pipe, metal, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Ryerson - Southern Tool Steel - Chattanooga: 3.2 TCR = 146% of Pipe, metal, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ryerson - Southern Tool Steel - Chattanooga safety composite

Ryerson - Southern Tool Steel - Chattanooga scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 57% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 8%), 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

38/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% 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

Ryerson - Southern Tool Steel - Chattanooga: 7.3 → 8.2 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 8.2 TCR · DART/TCR 2.55× in 2022

Ryerson - Southern Tool Steel - Chattanooga's TCR rose 0.9 from 7.3 in 2016 to 8.2 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 2.55× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423510 · Chattanooga, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 3.2 · 146% of ind

  • DART 8.2 DART
  • RANK #18/32
  • PHOTO JMS Russel Metals Co…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~57 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: JMS Russel Metals Corp - Jackson (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ryerson - Southern Tool Steel - Chattanooga in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ryerson - Southern Tool Steel - Chattanooga averages 3.2 TCR (146% of the Pipe, metal, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Ryerson - Southern Tool Steel - Chattanooga TCR series: 2016=7.3 · 2017=3.4 · 2018=0 · 2019=3.6 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=8.2 · BLS 2.2

Where Ryerson - Southern Tool Steel - Chattanooga falls in its industry

1,299 Pipe, metal, merchant wholesal establishments

Safer than 57% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #18 safest of 32 Pipe, metal, merchant wholesal employers in Tennessee.

Ryerson - Southern Tool Steel - Chattanooga (57 employees, TCR 3.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 3.7 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Ryerson - Southern Tool Steel - Chattanooga
Ryerson - Southern Tool Steel - Chattanooga (57 employees, TCR 3.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Ryerson - Southern Tool Steel - Chattanooga has more employees than the Pipe, metal, merchant wholesalers median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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
2022 8.2 8.2 3 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 3.6 3.6 2 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 3.4 1.7 2 0 0
2016 7.3 4.4 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423510 · TN · Chattanooga

1,299 Pipe, metal, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 695 employers in Chattanooga, 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 JMS Russel Metals Corp - Jackson 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Feralloy Charleston Division Loc'n # 331 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Reliance Metal Center 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Crest Steel Corporation 3.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Middle TN Electric Membership Corporation (Downtown) 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Christman Company - Knoxville, TN 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hawkins Asphalt Paving Main Office 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE Concrete Polishing Technologies, Inc. 57 FTE
CITY-NEAR CHATTANOOGA COKE 8,650 FTE
CITY-NEAR CHATTANOOGA FOOD 8,650 FTE
CITY-NEAR USXpress 7,385 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cardiology GB 6,606 FTE
NAT-TCR Tops #274 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Liberty Packaging - Omaha 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Jet Industries Inc 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 668 - North Summerlin 3.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Fresh Ideas Management- Missouri Southern State University 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE Whitney Oaks Golf Course 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE HF Group Inc. 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE 203FTW 57 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.