Manmade fiber thread manufacturing · Tennessee

Sika-Chattanooga

Chattanooga, TN · ~56 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sika-Chattanooga runs at 72% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Manmade fiber thread manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Sika-Chattanooga: 2.4 TCR = 72% of Manmade fiber thread manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sika-Chattanooga safety composite

Sika-Chattanooga scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 85% 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).

C

64/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% 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%).

TCR Δ

−4.3

2021→2024

Sika-Chattanooga injury rate improved

Sika-Chattanooga's TCR fell 4.3 from 4.3 in 2021 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 4.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=4.3 · 2022=3.5 · 2023=1.8 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 313110 · Chattanooga, TN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.4 · 72% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #4/6
  • PHOTO American & Efird Gas…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~56 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: American & Efird Gastonia Plant 20 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sika-Chattanooga in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sika-Chattanooga averages 2.4 TCR (72% of the Manmade fiber thread manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Sika-Chattanooga TCR series: 2021=4.3 · 2022=3.5 · 2023=1.8 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Sika-Chattanooga falls in its industry

195 Manmade fiber thread manufactu establishments

Safer than 54% 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 #4 safest of 6 Manmade fiber thread manufactu employers in Tennessee.

Sika-Chattanooga (56 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 137 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 0100200300400500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Sika-Chattanooga
Sika-Chattanooga (56 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 137 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Sika-Chattanooga has fewer employees than the Manmade fiber thread manufacturing 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 1.8 0.0 1 0 0
2022 3.5 0.0 2 0 0
2021 4.3 0.0 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

313110 · TN · Chattanooga

195 Manmade fiber thread manufacturing 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 American & Efird Gastonia Plant 20 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Frontier Spinning Mills, Inc Plant 3 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Plant D7 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Frontier Yarns Plant 3 2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Southwest Tennessee EMC - Brownsville 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE Vintage 1857 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE Vintage Alcoa 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE Doss Brothers Construction, Inc. 56 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 James W. Flett Co., Inc 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Association Resource Center - Ymca of the Triangle 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR On Point HVAC Corp 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Manchester Tool and Die, Inc 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Coffeyville SEKTAM, Inc. 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE Maryland Materials Management, LLC 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE S10161 - St Johns Hauling 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE Prismatic Development Corporation 56 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, 2022, 2021. 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.