Crane rental with operator · Georgia

Southway Crane & Rigging - Chattanooga Branch

Ringgold, GA · ~20 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.3
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Southway Crane & Rigging - Chattanooga Branch runs at 45% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Crane rental with operator workplace, earning a grade A.

Southway Crane & Rigging - Chattanooga Branch: 1.3 TCR = 45% of Crane rental with operator BLS 2.8 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Southway Crane & Rigging - Chattanooga Branch safety composite

Southway Crane & Rigging - Chattanooga Branch scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 73% 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)
C 1.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 63% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% 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%).

Southway Crane & Rigging - Chattanooga Branch held a steady TCR band

Southway Crane & Rigging - Chattanooga Branch's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 6.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.0 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=3.8 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=6.2 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238990 · Ringgold, GA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.3 · 45% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #22/37
  • PHOTO Vic's Crane & Heavy …
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~20 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Vic's Crane & Heavy Haul, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Southway Crane & Rigging - Chattanooga Branch in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Southway Crane & Rigging - Chattanooga Branch averages 1.3 TCR (45% of the Crane rental with operator BLS benchmark).

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

Southway Crane & Rigging - Chattanooga Branch TCR series: 2016=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=3.8 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=6.2 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.8

Where Southway Crane & Rigging - Chattanooga Branch falls in its industry

1,634 Crane rental with operator establishments

Safer than 63% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Georgia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #22 safest of 37 Crane rental with operator employers in Georgia.

Southway Crane & Rigging - Chattanooga Branch (20 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 1.9 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 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Southway Crane & Rigging - Chattanooga Branch
Southway Crane & Rigging - Chattanooga Branch (20 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 1.9

Southway Crane & Rigging - Chattanooga Branch has fewer employees than the Crane rental with operator median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.9. 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 6.2 6.2 2 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 3.8 0.0 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238990 · GA · Ringgold

1,634 Crane rental with operator employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 14,941 rated employers in Georgia with headcount on file · 56 employers in Ringgold, GA · 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 Vic's Crane & Heavy Haul, Inc. 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 033 Omaha NE Barnhart Crane and Rigging LLC 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Evergreen Industrial Services - Engineered Services 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR W & M Welding, Inc. 1.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Cal-Maine foods St George 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lab 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE FUNSTON GIN 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pennington Seed - Seed Production Division (SPI) 20 FTE
CITY-NEAR Physical Therapy Ringgold 6,606 FTE
CITY-NEAR Primary Care Ringgold 6,606 FTE
CITY-NEAR Primary Care S Ringgold 6,606 FTE
CITY-NEAR Plant RP 306 FTE
NAT-TCR Feeney Mfg, Inc 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Unitherm Charlotte 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Versatex Building Products 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Zephryhills 1.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Drumbeaters of America, Inc. 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE TownePlace Suites Grove City 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE RLS Cold Storage - Pittston 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE TownePlace Suites Albuquerque 20 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, 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.