Electric power control · Tennessee

Southwest Tennessee EMC - Covington

Covington, TN · ~19 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
2.7
Avg TCR
1.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Southwest Tennessee EMC - Covington runs at 227% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Electric power control workplace, earning a grade F.

Southwest Tennessee EMC - Covington: 2.7 TCR = 227% of Electric power control BLS 1.2 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Southwest Tennessee EMC - Covington safety composite

Southwest Tennessee EMC - Covington scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 77% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 38%), 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

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% 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

Southwest Tennessee EMC - Covington: 0.0 → 4.9 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 14.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Southwest Tennessee EMC - Covington's TCR rose 4.9 from 0.0 in 2016 to 4.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 14.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 221121 · Covington, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 2.7 · 227% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #3/5
  • PHOTO CA-Lugo Substation
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~19 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: CA-Lugo Substation (0.0 TCR gap)

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Southwest Tennessee EMC - Covington in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Southwest Tennessee EMC - Covington averages 2.7 TCR (227% of the Electric power control BLS benchmark).

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

Southwest Tennessee EMC - Covington TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=5.3 · 2022=0 · 2023=14.4 · 2024=4.9 · BLS 1.2

Where Southwest Tennessee EMC - Covington falls in its industry

263 Electric power control establishments

Safer than 38% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 5 Electric power control employers in Tennessee.

Southwest Tennessee EMC - Covington (19 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 71 employees and a TCR of 2.2 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 0200400600800 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Southwest Tennessee EMC - Covington
Southwest Tennessee EMC - Covington (19 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 71 employees and a TCR of 2.2

Southwest Tennessee EMC - Covington has fewer employees than the Electric power control median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.2. 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 4.9 0.0 1 0 0
2023 14.4 14.4 3 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 5.3 0.0 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

221121 · TN · Covington

263 Electric power control employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 34 employers in Covington, TN · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR CA-Lugo Substation 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Oncor Electric Delivery Distribution Operations Western Region 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Transmission and Distribution Services 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Headquarters 2.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE PHOENIX GIN COMPANY 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southwest Tennessee EMC - Jackson 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE LC SoBro, LLC 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Construction - JOCY 19 FTE
CITY-NEAR Covington 771 FTE
CITY-NEAR Charms 365 FTE
CITY-NEAR Baptist Memorial Hospital Tipton 339 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 93 307 FTE
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Univ of Louisiana Lafayette 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR RI Office 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Ginger Hill 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 04 Scarborough 2.7 TCR

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.