Automotive lighting fixtures manufacturing · Tennessee

Sparta, TN

Sparta, TN · ~87 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.5
Avg TCR
5.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sparta, TN runs at 27% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Automotive lighting fixtures manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Sparta, TN: 1.5 TCR = 27% of Automotive lighting fixtures manufacturing BLS 5.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sparta, TN safety composite

Sparta, TN scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 67% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 45%), 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)
C 1.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% 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

Sparta, TN: 0.0 → 2.5 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 3.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.86× in 2021

Sparta, TN's TCR rose 2.5 from 0.0 in 2017 to 2.5 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 3.4 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.86× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336320 · Sparta, TN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.5 · 27% of ind

  • DART 1.3 DART
  • RANK #6/9
  • PHOTO NAL ILLINOIS EQUIPME…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~87 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: NAL ILLINOIS EQUIPMENT PLANT (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sparta, TN in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sparta, TN averages 1.5 TCR (27% of the Automotive lighting fixtures manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Sparta, TN TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=1.4 · 2020=3.4 · 2021=2.5 · BLS 5.4

Where Sparta, TN falls in its industry

216 Automotive lighting fixtures m establishments

Safer than 67% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 9 Automotive lighting fixtures m employers in Tennessee.

Sparta, TN (87 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 162 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 Sparta, TN
Sparta, TN (87 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 162 employees and a TCR of 1.9

Sparta, TN has fewer employees than the Automotive lighting fixtures manufacturi 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
2021 2.5 1.3 2 0 0
2020 3.4 0.0 2 0 0
2019 1.4 1.4 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336320 · TN · Sparta

216 Automotive lighting fixtures manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 33 employers in Sparta, 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 NAL ILLINOIS EQUIPMENT PLANT 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wells Vehicle Electronics 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Vitesco Technologies USA LLC 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Vitesco Technologies 1.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sevier County Utility District 87 FTE
STATE-SIZE Byard Construction LLC 87 FTE
STATE-SIZE JOHN J. CAMPBELL CO., INC. 87 FTE
STATE-SIZE NovaCopy - Nashville 87 FTE
CITY-NEAR Life Force Sparta 6,606 FTE
CITY-NEAR Altium Packaging - Sparta 396 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tri State Distribution, Inc 360 FTE
CITY-NEAR THK Rhythm North America 275 FTE
NAT-TCR dcc - 256 Sheffield 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Victoria's Secret Store (223) 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR PYA 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Priority Nissan Newport News 1.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Victoria Landing, LLC 87 FTE
NAT-SIZE Reasors3 87 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dayton 87 FTE
NAT-SIZE Whitehall Specialties - Plant 3 87 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.