Dam construction · Tennessee

Shimmick Construction Company

Chattanooga, TN · ~395 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.6
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Shimmick Construction Company runs at 55% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Dam construction workplace, earning a grade B.

Shimmick Construction Company: 1.6 TCR = 55% of Dam construction BLS 2.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Shimmick Construction Company safety composite

Shimmick Construction Company scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 33%), 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

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 1.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% of industry peers

DART rate
F 0.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Shimmick Construction Company: 0.9 → 1.8 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 2.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.57× in 2023

Shimmick Construction Company's TCR rose 0.9 from 0.9 in 2020 to 1.8 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 2.0 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.57× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237990 · Chattanooga, TN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 1.6 · 55% of ind

  • DART 0.9 DART
  • RANK #8/19
  • PHOTO RCI General Engineer…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~395 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: RCI General Engineering, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Shimmick Construction Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Shimmick Construction Company averages 1.6 TCR (55% of the Dam construction BLS benchmark).

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

Shimmick Construction Company TCR series: 2020=0.9 · 2022=2 · 2023=1.8 · BLS 2.8

Where Shimmick Construction Company falls in its industry

932 Dam construction establishments

Safer than 48% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 19 Dam construction employers in Tennessee.

Shimmick Construction Company (395 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 1.5 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Shimmick Construction Company
Shimmick Construction Company (395 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 1.5

Shimmick Construction Company has more employees than the Dam construction median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.5. 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
2023 1.8 0.9 8 0 0
2022 2.0 1.1 9 0 0
2020 0.9 0.0 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237990 · TN · Chattanooga

932 Dam construction 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 RCI General Engineering, Inc. 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Matrix Power Services, Inc. 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Weeks Marine - Dredging 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Luhr Bros., Inc. 1.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE ShoffnerKalthoff MES, INC. 395 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jackson Energy Authority 394 FTE
STATE-SIZE Altium Packaging - Sparta 396 FTE
STATE-SIZE MacLean Power Systems 396 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 Yuma County Attorney 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Lindenmeyr KOP 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR County Market #391 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Cbi Cables 1.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Northern Region : Shu 395 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cornelia Nixon Davis, Inc 395 FTE
NAT-SIZE Carlisle Plant 395 FTE
NAT-SIZE Market Basket #13 395 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: 2023, 2022, 2020. 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.