Fabric finishing · Tennessee

SSM Industries, Inc.

Spring City, TN · ~64 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

SSM Industries, Inc. runs at 58% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Fabric finishing workplace, earning a grade B.

SSM Industries, Inc.: 1.9 TCR = 58% of Fabric finishing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

SSM Industries, Inc. safety composite

SSM Industries, Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 67% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 33%), 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).

D

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% 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

SSM Industries, Inc.: 1.6 → 2.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 2.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.14× in 2024

SSM Industries, Inc.'s TCR rose 0.5 from 1.6 in 2023 to 2.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.14× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 313310 · Spring City, TN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.9 · 58% of ind

  • DART 2.2 DART
  • RANK #1/7
  • PHOTO Viskon-Aire
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~64 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Viskon-Aire (0.0 TCR gap)

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SSM Industries, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows SSM Industries, Inc. averages 1.9 TCR (58% of the Fabric finishing BLS benchmark).

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

SSM Industries, Inc. TCR series: 2023=1.6 · 2024=2.2 · BLS 3.3

Where SSM Industries, Inc. falls in its industry

166 Fabric finishing establishments

Safer than 67% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 7 Fabric finishing employers in Tennessee.

SSM Industries, Inc. (64 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 78 employees and a TCR of 3.2 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 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate SSM Industries, Inc.
SSM Industries, Inc. (64 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 78 employees and a TCR of 3.2

SSM Industries, Inc. has fewer employees than the Fabric finishing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.2. 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 2.2 2.2 1 0 0
2023 1.6 1.6 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

313310 · TN · Spring City

166 Fabric finishing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 7 employers in Spring City, 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 Viskon-Aire 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Arkansas Graphics Inc 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Copland Industries 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR UniFour Finishers 1.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Alabama GP Cleanout Department 64 FTE
STATE-SIZE Middle TN Electric (Murfreesboro Office) 64 FTE
STATE-SIZE Blaine Construction Corporation 64 FTE
STATE-SIZE Construction Management Company 64 FTE
CITY-NEAR Watts Bar Nuclear Plant Maintenance 325 FTE
CITY-NEAR United TVA Watts Bar Nuclear Generating Station SGRP 169 FTE
CITY-NEAR Huber Engineered Woods LLC 154 FTE
CITY-NEAR Watts Bar Nuclear Gnerating Station _SGRP 101 FTE
NAT-TCR Box Partners 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Ft Worth 10419 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Undercar Products Group Inc. 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Riverbend 1.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Opustone LLC 64 FTE
NAT-SIZE Richmond Health Care Center 64 FTE
NAT-SIZE Arpin - Pine Bluff 64 FTE
NAT-SIZE Okdur - Durant Center 64 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. 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.