Elementary and secondary schools · Tennessee

Smith County High School

Carthage, TN · ~68 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
0.9
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Smith County High School runs at 64% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Elementary and secondary schools workplace, earning a grade B.

Smith County High School: 0.9 TCR = 64% of Elementary and secondary schools BLS 1.4 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Smith County High School safety composite

Smith County High School scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 94% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

78/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 94% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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%).

Smith County High School held a steady TCR band

Smith County High School's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 3.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.0 · 2017=2.1 · 2018=2.1 · 2019=3.9 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 611110 · Carthage, TN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 0.9 · 64% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #4/36
  • PHOTO Middle/Secondary
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~68 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Middle/Secondary (0.0 TCR gap)

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Smith County High School in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Smith County High School averages 0.9 TCR (64% of the Elementary and secondary schools BLS benchmark).

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

Smith County High School TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=2.1 · 2018=2.1 · 2019=3.9 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 1.4

Where Smith County High School falls in its industry

3,374 Elementary and secondary schoo establishments

Safer than 94% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.8.

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 36 Elementary and secondary schoo employers in Tennessee.

Smith County High School (68 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.8 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 02,0004,0006,0008,00010,000 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Smith County High School
Smith County High School (68 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.8

Smith County High School has fewer employees than the Elementary and secondary schools median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.8. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 3.9 0.0 2 0 0
2018 2.1 0.0 1 0 0
2017 2.1 2.1 0 1 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611110 · TN · Carthage

3,374 Elementary and secondary schools employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 21 employers in Carthage, 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 Middle/Secondary 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Power Middle School 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Educational Service Center 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR St Anthony - New Brighton ISD #282-Middle and High School 0.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Middle Tennessee Electric Membership Corporation (Lebanon) 68 FTE
STATE-SIZE Weakely County Municipal Electric System 68 FTE
STATE-SIZE Northern Middle TN Construction 68 FTE
STATE-SIZE AFS Nashville 68 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bonnell Aluminum 631 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bonnell Aluminum, Inc. - Carthage 485 FTE
CITY-NEAR Riverview Medical Center 194 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 568 192 FTE
NAT-TCR IMS Pet Industries 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Feed Mill 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Behr Paint Company McDonough MFG 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Denver City, TX 0.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Police - Criminal Investigation 68 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Republic 68 FTE
NAT-SIZE 5168 Fresenius Medical Care 68 FTE
NAT-SIZE Corporate Office 68 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 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.