Parking lot marking and line painting · Tennessee

Swarco Industries - Tape Division

Columbia, TN · ~38 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.8
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Swarco Industries - Tape Division runs at 137% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Parking lot marking and line painting workplace, earning a grade D.

Swarco Industries - Tape Division: 3.8 TCR = 137% of Parking lot marking and line painting BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Swarco Industries - Tape Division safety composite

Swarco Industries - Tape Division scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 32%), 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

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

−2.6

2023→2024

Swarco Industries - Tape Division injury rate improved

Swarco Industries - Tape Division's TCR fell 2.6 from 5.1 in 2023 to 2.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 5.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.67× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=5.1 · 2024=2.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237310 · Columbia, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 3.8 · 137% of ind

  • DART 2.6 DART
  • RANK #45/94
  • PHOTO Johnson Rock Product…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~38 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Johnson Rock Products, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Swarco Industries - Tape Division in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Swarco Industries - Tape Division averages 3.8 TCR (137% of the Parking lot marking and line painting BLS benchmark).

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

Swarco Industries - Tape Division TCR series: 2023=5.1 · 2024=2.6 · BLS 2.8

Where Swarco Industries - Tape Division falls in its industry

4,078 Parking lot marking and line p establishments

Safer than 39% 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 #45 safest of 94 Parking lot marking and line p employers in Tennessee.

Swarco Industries - Tape Division (38 employees, TCR 3.8) 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 Swarco Industries - Tape Division
Swarco Industries - Tape Division (38 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Swarco Industries - Tape Division has fewer employees than the Parking lot marking and line painting 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
2024 2.6 2.6 1 0 0
2023 5.1 5.1 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237310 · TN · Columbia

4,078 Parking lot marking and line painting employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 79 employers in Columbia, 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 Johnson Rock Products, Inc. 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ames Office 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Twin Ports - 242013 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wayco, Inc. 3.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE D.R. Horton, Inc. - Memphis 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE Smith Douglas Nashville 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE J.A. Fielden Co, Inc. 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE Messer Construction - Knoxville, TN 38 FTE
CITY-NEAR Maury Regional Medical Center 2,287 FTE
CITY-NEAR Maury County Government 524 FTE
CITY-NEAR Columbia State Community College 506 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 192 399 FTE
NAT-TCR Votaw Precision Technologies, Inc. 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR USA Reno 1625 National Guard Way 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Fairview 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Brashears Furniture, Inc. 3.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Depin Inc 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Taylor Oil 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rescue Mission of Mahoning Valley 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Thomasson Company 38 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.