Excavation contractors · Tennessee

Sam C Franklin & Son, Inc.

Maryville, TN · ~35 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.0
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sam C Franklin & Son, Inc. runs at 36% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Excavation contractors workplace, earning a grade A.

Sam C Franklin & Son, Inc.: 1.0 TCR = 36% of Excavation contractors BLS 2.8 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sam C Franklin & Son, Inc. safety composite

Sam C Franklin & Son, Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 84% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 28%), 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

56/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% 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%).

Sam C Franklin & Son, Inc. held a steady TCR band

Sam C Franklin & Son, Inc.'s TCR held near 0.2 from 2.4 in 2016 to 2.6 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2.59× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=2.4 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=0.0 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=2.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238910 · Maryville, TN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.0 · 36% of ind

  • DART 2.6 DART
  • RANK #6/37
  • PHOTO Trifecta Services Co…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~35 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Trifecta Services Company (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sam C Franklin & Son, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sam C Franklin & Son, Inc. averages 1.0 TCR (36% of the Excavation contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Sam C Franklin & Son, Inc. TCR series: 2016=2.4 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=2.6 · BLS 2.8

Where Sam C Franklin & Son, Inc. falls in its industry

1,750 Excavation contractors establishments

Safer than 84% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 37 Excavation contractors employers in Tennessee.

Sam C Franklin & Son, Inc. (35 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Sam C Franklin & Son, Inc.
Sam C Franklin & Son, Inc. (35 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Sam C Franklin & Son, Inc. has fewer employees than the Excavation contractors median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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 2.6 2.6 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 2.4 2.4 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238910 · TN · Maryville

1,750 Excavation contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 79 employers in Maryville, 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 Trifecta Services Company 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR PGE 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Centerline Drilling, Inc. 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Independence Excavating 1.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE TN 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE 810 CRESCENT CENTRE DR FRANKLIN TN 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE 200 NOAH DR FRANKLIN TN 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Distribution and Business Office 35 FTE
CITY-NEAR DENSO Manufacturing Tennessee, Inc. 4,655 FTE
CITY-NEAR Denso Manufacturing Tennessee, Inc.- DMTN 4,498 FTE
CITY-NEAR Blount Memorial Hospital 2,046 FTE
CITY-NEAR Clayton Homes 1,919 FTE
NAT-TCR John Schuring, Jr. Company 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Thomas Industries, Inc. 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Houston Foam Plastics 4 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Valmet Inc. 1.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE 12543 Laramie Ave Alsip Illinois 60803 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE 254-03 Men on the Move Inc. 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sussex Development Corporation 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE 046/Cherry Hill 35 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, 2020, 2019, 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.