Books merchant wholesalers · Tennessee

Southwestern EMS

Nashville, TN · ~111 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.2
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Southwestern EMS runs at 373% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Books merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Southwestern EMS: 8.2 TCR = 373% of Books merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Southwestern EMS safety composite

Southwestern EMS scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 19%), 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).

F

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Southwestern EMS: 7.3 → 9.1 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 9.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.63× in 2018

Southwestern EMS's TCR rose 1.8 from 7.3 in 2017 to 9.1 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.63× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424920 · Nashville, TN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 8.2 · 373% of ind

  • DART 5.2 DART
  • RANK #4/4
  • PHOTO Winder Distribution …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~111 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Winder Distribution Center (0.2 TCR gap)

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Southwestern EMS in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Southwestern EMS averages 8.2 TCR (373% of the Books merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Southwestern EMS TCR series: 2017=7.3 · 2018=9.1 · BLS 2.2

Where Southwestern EMS falls in its industry

57 Books merchant wholesalers establishments

Safer than 19% 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 4 Books merchant wholesalers employers in Tennessee.

Southwestern EMS (111 employees, TCR 8.2) among 26 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 191 employees and a TCR of 3.8 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 27 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 0200400600 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Southwestern EMS
Southwestern EMS (111 employees, TCR 8.2) among 26 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 191 employees and a TCR of 3.8

Southwestern EMS has fewer employees than the Books merchant wholesalers median and a higher 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
2018 9.1 5.2 7 0 0
2017 7.3 6.4 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424920 · TN · Nashville

57 Books merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 1,187 employers in Nashville, 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 Winder Distribution Center 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ypsilanti 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR ReaderLink Northeastern Distribution Center 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR MPS Returns Center 7.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hatchery (Pikeville) 111 FTE
STATE-SIZE Evers Construction Company, Inc 111 FTE
STATE-SIZE McMurry Construction 111 FTE
STATE-SIZE First Utility District of Knox County 111 FTE
CITY-NEAR Parallon Enterprises, LLC 15,267 FTE
CITY-NEAR METROPOLITAN GOVT. OF NASHVILLE,& DAVIDSON COUNTY 10,278 FTE
CITY-NEAR METRO NASHVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOLS 9,049 FTE
CITY-NEAR TriStar Centennial Medical Center 3,106 FTE
NAT-TCR Eiss Brothers Auto Parts 8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 4795-PD-CAK-AKRON-CANTON-PD 8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Dallas (Txdal) 8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 6400-Swy 0024 0025 8.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE SNA - Airport United Airlines Offices 111 FTE
NAT-SIZE Landing Gear 111 FTE
NAT-SIZE AxleTech 111 FTE
NAT-SIZE City of Huntington Woods 111 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: 2018, 2017. 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.