Road construction · Tennessee

Summers-Taylor, Inc.

Elizabethton, TN · ~319 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.5
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Summers-Taylor, Inc. runs at 124% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Road construction workplace, earning a grade D.

Summers-Taylor, Inc.: 3.5 TCR = 124% of Road construction BLS 2.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Summers-Taylor, Inc. safety composite

Summers-Taylor, Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 44% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 3%), 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

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 3% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.4

2016→2018

Summers-Taylor, Inc. injury rate improved

Summers-Taylor, Inc.'s TCR fell 0.4 from 4.1 in 2016 to 3.6 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2016 at 4.1 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.7× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=4.1 · 2017=2.7 · 2018=3.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237310 · Elizabethton, TN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 3.5 · 124% of ind

  • DART 2.4 DART
  • RANK #43/94
  • PHOTO J.S.G. Corporation
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 36 inj
  • SIZE ~319 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: J.S.G. Corporation (0.0 TCR gap)

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Summers-Taylor, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Summers-Taylor, Inc. averages 3.5 TCR (124% of the Road construction BLS benchmark).

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

Summers-Taylor, Inc. TCR series: 2016=4.1 · 2017=2.7 · 2018=3.6 · BLS 2.8

Where Summers-Taylor, Inc. falls in its industry

4,078 Road construction establishments

Safer than 44% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #43 safest of 94 Road construction employers in Tennessee.

Summers-Taylor, Inc. (319 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 01,0002,0003,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Summers-Taylor, Inc.
Summers-Taylor, Inc. (319 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Summers-Taylor, Inc. has more employees than the Road construction median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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 3.6 2.4 15 0 1
2017 2.7 2.7 9 0 0
2016 4.1 4.1 12 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237310 · TN · Elizabethton

4,078 Road construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 30 employers in Elizabethton, 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 J.S.G. Corporation 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR BU 235 SUMMOUNT PAVING COMPANY 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cal-Stripe Inc. 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR R.E. PIERSON CONSTRUCTION - PA 3.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Florim USA, Inc 319 FTE
STATE-SIZE B42 319 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 1561 319 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 7020 319 FTE
CITY-NEAR Snap-on Tools Elizabethton 441 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 690 398 FTE
CITY-NEAR 690 359 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sycamore Shoals Hospital 337 FTE
NAT-TCR Northside Lexus 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR ANGRN - Greenville SC 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR SCC at Pecan Valley Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Trend Offset Printing Services 3.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE AC Corporation - GSO 319 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sentara Nursing Center Norfolk 319 FTE
NAT-SIZE American Buildings Company South Division 319 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dallas - Fort Worth Airport (HR) 319 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, 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.