Plumbing and heating contractors · Tennessee

ShoffnerKalthoff MES, INC.

Knoxville, TN · ~395 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.1
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

ShoffnerKalthoff MES, INC. runs at 4% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Plumbing and heating contractors workplace, earning a grade A.

ShoffnerKalthoff MES, INC.: 0.1 TCR = 4% of Plumbing and heating contractors BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

ShoffnerKalthoff MES, INC. safety composite

ShoffnerKalthoff MES, INC. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 100% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

B

81/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 100% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% 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%).

ShoffnerKalthoff MES, INC. held a steady TCR band

ShoffnerKalthoff MES, INC.'s TCR held near 0.2 from 0.0 in 2016 to 0.2 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.0 · 2017=0.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238220 · Knoxville, TN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.1 · 4% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/117
  • PHOTO HAR-CON MECHANICAL C…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~395 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: HAR-CON MECHANICAL CONTRACTORS (0.0 TCR gap)

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ShoffnerKalthoff MES, INC. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows ShoffnerKalthoff MES, INC. averages 0.1 TCR (4% of the Plumbing and heating contractors BLS benchmark).

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

ShoffnerKalthoff MES, INC. TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0.2 · BLS 2.8

Where ShoffnerKalthoff MES, INC. falls in its industry

5,793 Plumbing and heating contracto establishments

Safer than 100% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

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 117 Plumbing and heating contracto employers in Tennessee.

ShoffnerKalthoff MES, INC. (395 employees, TCR 0.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate ShoffnerKalthoff MES, INC.
ShoffnerKalthoff MES, INC. (395 employees, TCR 0.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.3

ShoffnerKalthoff MES, INC. has more employees than the Plumbing and heating contractors median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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
2017 0.2 0.0 1 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238220 · TN · Knoxville

5,793 Plumbing and heating contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 747 employers in Knoxville, 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 HAR-CON MECHANICAL CONTRACTORS 0.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Riverside Office 0.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Austin Fire Systems 0.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Coolsys CORP 0.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Shimmick Construction Company 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 Cellular Sales Services Group LLC 6,387 FTE
CITY-NEAR University Health System, Inc 5,215 FTE
CITY-NEAR Functional Pathways of TN LLC 2,258 FTE
CITY-NEAR HES Facilities Services K-12 2,157 FTE
NAT-TCR 6017-Corp Loc - USA United States - Elk Grove 0.1 TCR
NAT-TCR MS - Enterprise, AL - 5FTRU 0.1 TCR
NAT-TCR JFSNA at ExxonMobil Baytown Complex 0.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Nexeo Solutions - The Woodlands 0.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Dallas/Coppell (Txcpp) 395 FTE
NAT-SIZE i3 Electronics - Endicott 395 FTE
NAT-SIZE U.S. Tsubaki Automotive, LLC - Chicopee, MA 395 FTE
NAT-SIZE PetSmart DC-36 395 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: 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.