Waste (except solid and hazardous) hauling, local · Tennessee

Southern Construction

Athens, TN · ~22 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.8
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Southern Construction runs at 147% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Waste (except solid and hazardous) hauling, local workplace, earning a grade D.

Southern Construction: 3.8 TCR = 147% of Waste (except solid and hazardous) hauling, local BLS 2.6 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Southern Construction safety composite

Southern Construction scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 79% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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)
C 3.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% 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

Southern Construction: 0.0 → 7.7 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 7.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2017

Southern Construction's TCR rose 7.7 from 0.0 in 2016 to 7.7 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562119 · Athens, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 3.8 · 147% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK P58
  • PHOTO Frontier Waste Solut…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~22 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Frontier Waste Solutions - Texoma (0.1 TCR gap)

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Southern Construction in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Southern Construction averages 3.8 TCR (147% of the Waste (except solid and hazardous) hauling, local BLS benchmark).

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

Southern Construction TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=7.7 · BLS 2.6

Where Southern Construction falls in its industry

57 Waste (except solid and hazard establishments

Safer than 58% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Southern Construction (22 employees, TCR 3.8) among 25 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 4.6 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 26 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 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Southern Construction
Southern Construction (22 employees, TCR 3.8) among 25 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 4.6

Southern Construction has fewer employees than the Waste (except solid and hazardous) hauli median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.6. 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 7.7 0.0 2 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562119 · TN · Athens

57 Waste (except solid and hazardous) hauling, local employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 77 employers in Athens, 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 Frontier Waste Solutions - Texoma 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dallas Trans 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR UNITED INTERIOR SERVICE, INC 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tampa Trans 4.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Tosh Pork Herrondale 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Longtown Supply Co. Inc. 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Shelbyville Growout 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southwest Tennessee EMC - Henderson 22 FTE
CITY-NEAR DENSO Manufacturing Athens Tennessee, INC 1,659 FTE
CITY-NEAR DENSO Manufacturing Athens, TN INC 1,638 FTE
CITY-NEAR Starr Regional Medical Center 603 FTE
CITY-NEAR Adient Athens 540 FTE
NAT-TCR Marshall Dekalb Electric Copperative 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Orion Engineered Systems 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Giant Carlisle 6442 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Mercy Restorative Care 3.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Open Gates FTD/ARTI 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE LKC CBTC Flushing 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0785 - Alexander City, Al 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0768 - Palmdale, Ca 22 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.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.