Heat treating metals and metal products for the trade · Tennessee

The Colson Group LLC

Murfreesboro, TN · ~20 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
13.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

The Colson Group LLC runs at 394% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Heat treating metals and metal products for the trade workplace, earning a grade F.

The Colson Group LLC: 13.0 TCR = 394% of Heat treating metals and metal products for the trade BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

The Colson Group LLC safety composite

The Colson Group LLC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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

17/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 13 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

The Colson Group LLC: 10.7 → 15.3 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 15.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.59× in 2024

The Colson Group LLC's TCR rose 4.6 from 10.7 in 2023 to 15.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.59× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332811 · Murfreesboro, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 13.0 · 394% of ind

  • DART 7.7 DART
  • RANK #6/6
  • PHOTO American Heat Treati…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~20 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: American Heat Treating, Inc. (0.6 TCR gap)

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The Colson Group LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows The Colson Group LLC averages 13.0 TCR (394% of the Heat treating metals and metal products for the trade BLS benchmark).

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

The Colson Group LLC TCR series: 2023=10.7 · 2024=15.3 · BLS 3.3

Where The Colson Group LLC falls in its industry

248 Heat treating metals and metal establishments

Safer than 3% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

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 6 Heat treating metals and metal employers in Tennessee.

The Colson Group LLC (20 employees, TCR 13.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 4.2 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 05001,0001,5002,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate The Colson Group LLC
The Colson Group LLC (20 employees, TCR 13.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 4.2

The Colson Group LLC has fewer employees than the Heat treating metals and metal products median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.2. 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 15.3 7.7 4 0 0
2023 10.7 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332811 · TN · Murfreesboro

248 Heat treating metals and metal products for the trade employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 256 employers in Murfreesboro, 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 American Heat Treating, Inc. 12.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Zion Industries Hildebran Plant 13.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Atmosphere Annealing LLC, Mt. Hope Facility 12.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR BCT Inc. dba Service Heat Treating 12.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Machine Harvest 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Columbia DREMC 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE CEMC-Gallatin 20 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Murfreesboro 2,295 FTE
CITY-NEAR TNNAS16 ASCENSION SAINT THOMAS RUTHERFORD 1,984 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - BNA3 1,811 FTE
CITY-NEAR North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : BNA3 1,708 FTE
NAT-TCR Hull Forest Products 13.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Cross Country Cable Corp 13.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Williamsport Retirement Village 13.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Estates of Evanston 13.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Bulloch Fertilizer Co., Inc. 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Anderson's General Store 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mathews Brothers Electric, Inc 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fairbanks Community Food Bank Service 20 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.