Blast furnace slag processing · Georgia

TMS Cartersville

Cartersville, GA · ~44 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

TMS Cartersville runs at 208% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Blast furnace slag processing workplace, earning a grade F.

TMS Cartersville: 6.9 TCR = 208% of Blast furnace slag processing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

TMS Cartersville safety composite

TMS Cartersville scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 4%), 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

18/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% 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

TMS Cartersville: 5.6 → 10.6 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 10.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.32× in 2022

TMS Cartersville's TCR rose 5.0 from 5.6 in 2016 to 10.6 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 1.32× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 327992 · Cartersville, GA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.9 · 208% of ind

  • DART 9.1 DART
  • RANK #9/9
  • PHOTO Isolatek - Houston
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~44 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Isolatek - Houston (0.1 TCR gap)

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TMS Cartersville in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows TMS Cartersville averages 6.9 TCR (208% of the Blast furnace slag processing BLS benchmark).

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

TMS Cartersville TCR series: 2016=5.6 · 2017=8.4 · 2018=4.8 · 2019=4.6 · 2021=7.2 · 2022=10.6 · BLS 3.3

Where TMS Cartersville falls in its industry

97 Blast furnace slag processing establishments

Safer than 9% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Georgia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 9 Blast furnace slag processing employers in Georgia.

TMS Cartersville (44 employees, TCR 6.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 41 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 050100150200250 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate TMS Cartersville
TMS Cartersville (44 employees, TCR 6.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 41 employees and a TCR of 1.9

TMS Cartersville has more employees than the Blast furnace slag processing median and a higher 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
2022 10.6 9.1 7 0 0
2021 7.2 3.6 4 0 0
2019 4.6 4.6 2 0 0
2018 4.8 4.8 2 0 0
2017 8.4 2.8 3 0 0
2016 5.6 5.6 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

327992 · GA · Cartersville

97 Blast furnace slag processing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 14,941 rated employers in Georgia with headcount on file · 145 employers in Cartersville, GA · 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 Isolatek - Houston 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Horizon Ag Products LP OK Plant 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR THERM-O-ROCK EAST, INC. 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Silbrico Corporation - Easton 7.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE 04564100-00W002 LOCAL BOUNTI CORPORATION-LOCAL BOUNTI CORPORATION 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE Duluth Operating - 3825 Rogers Bridge Rd. 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE Albany Operating/TMC - 101 Georgia Power Rd. Albany, GA 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gainesboro Operating 2293 Skelton Rd Gainesville 44 FTE
CITY-NEAR Plant 15/1G 1,365 FTE
CITY-NEAR Plant 15 1,294 FTE
CITY-NEAR Piedmont Cartersville Medical Center 643 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cartersville Brewery 527 FTE
NAT-TCR Pearl Crossing 6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 0120 - Hawaii Kai Hi Whse 6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Bed Bath and Beyond East Mentor 6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Google Gpak Catering 6.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lake Marion Maintenance 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Accura Healthcare of Newton West 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tell Manufacturing Lititz 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE AWA-FW 44 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: 2022, 2021, 2019, 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.