Employer · Tennessee

TN708 Memphis Cellulose

Memphis, TN · ~123 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

TN708 Memphis Cellulose runs at 171% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade D.

TN708 Memphis Cellulose: 5.6 TCR = 171% of industry BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

TN708 Memphis Cellulose safety composite

TN708 Memphis Cellulose scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 1%), 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

19/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 54% 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

TN708 Memphis Cellulose: 1.3 → 8.9 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 12.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.29× in 2024

TN708 Memphis Cellulose's TCR rose 7.6 from 1.3 in 2016 to 8.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 12.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.29× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322110 · Memphis, TN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.6 · 171% of ind

  • DART 7.3 DART
  • RANK #4/4
  • PHOTO NEW GREEN DAY, LLC
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 52 inj
  • SIZE ~123 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: NEW GREEN DAY, LLC (0.2 TCR gap)

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TN708 Memphis Cellulose in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows TN708 Memphis Cellulose averages 5.6 TCR (171% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

TN708 Memphis Cellulose TCR series: 2016=1.3 · 2017=12.4 · 2018=4.7 · 2019=7.9 · 2020=5.6 · 2022=2.8 · 2023=1.7 · 2024=8.9 · BLS 3.3

Where TN708 Memphis Cellulose falls in its industry

46 industry establishments

Safer than 13% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 4 industry employers in Tennessee.

TN708 Memphis Cellulose (123 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 123 employees and a TCR of 2.0 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate TN708 Memphis Cellulose
TN708 Memphis Cellulose (123 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 123 employees and a TCR of 2.0

TN708 Memphis Cellulose has more employees than the industry median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.0. 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 8.9 7.3 9 2 0
2023 1.7 0.9 2 0 0
2022 2.8 2.8 3 0 0
2020 5.6 5.6 6 0 0
2019 7.9 5.5 9 1 0
2018 4.7 3.9 5 1 0
2017 12.4 8.7 16 1 0
2016 1.3 1.3 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322110 · TN · Memphis

46 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 1,330 employers in Memphis, 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 NEW GREEN DAY, LLC 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR O-I Kalama 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR CBC Coating 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Schwartz Manufacturing Company 5.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Franklin TN 123 FTE
STATE-SIZE ACORN ELECTRICAL SPECIALISTS, INC 123 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tennessee Associated Electric, LLC 123 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jake Marshall Service Inc 123 FTE
CITY-NEAR FedEx 2903 SPRANKLE DR 12,398 FTE
CITY-NEAR 381940311 9,861 FTE
CITY-NEAR American Residential Services 5,775 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Jude Children's Research Hospital 5,599 FTE
NAT-TCR Peavey Manufacturing Company 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Jefferson Manor 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Pacific Glass, Inc. 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Jenkins Millworks 5.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE FL312 Hosford OSB 123 FTE
NAT-SIZE Advance Shipping LLC 123 FTE
NAT-SIZE Waterford 123 FTE
NAT-SIZE Oakmont of East Sacramento 123 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, 2022, 2020, 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.