Warm Air Heating and Air-Conditioning Equipment and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers · Tennessee

TNKIN

Kingsport, TN · ~13 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.3
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

TNKIN runs at 60% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Warm Air Heating and Air-Conditioning Equipment and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers workplace, earning a grade B.

TNKIN: 1.3 TCR = 60% of Warm Air Heating and Air-Conditioning Equipment and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

TNKIN safety composite

TNKIN scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 76% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 14%), 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

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% 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

TNKIN: 0.0 → 5.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 5.2 TCR · DART/TCR 3.99× in 2024

TNKIN's TCR rose 5.2 from 0.0 in 2016 to 5.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 3.99× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423730 · Kingsport, TN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.3 · 60% of ind

  • DART 5.2 DART
  • RANK #2/11
  • PHOTO Kele, Inc.
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~13 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Kele, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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TNKIN in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows TNKIN averages 1.3 TCR (60% of the Warm Air Heating and Air-Conditioning Equipment and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

TNKIN TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=5.2 · BLS 2.2

Where TNKIN falls in its industry

290 Warm Air Heating and Air-Condi establishments

Safer than 76% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 11 Warm Air Heating and Air-Condi employers in Tennessee.

TNKIN (13 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 0100200300400500 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate TNKIN
TNKIN (13 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 2.5

TNKIN has fewer employees than the Warm Air Heating and Air-Conditioning Eq median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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 5.2 5.2 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423730 · TN · Kingsport

290 Warm Air Heating and Air-Conditioning Equipment and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 152 employers in Kingsport, TN · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Kele, Inc. 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mingledorff's - Macon 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lute Supply 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR C & L Supply - Vinita 1.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bryant Brothers 13 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tipton Farmers Cooperative-Gin 13 FTE
STATE-SIZE fssK 13 FTE
STATE-SIZE Porter Roofing Contractors Chattanooga, TN 13 FTE
CITY-NEAR Eastman Kingsport Site 7,258 FTE
CITY-NEAR Holston Valley Medical Center 1,733 FTE
CITY-NEAR Eastman Chemical Company Kinsport TN- BSL 1,206 FTE
CITY-NEAR BLUE RIDGE MEDICAL MANAGEMENT CORPORATION - VA 1,073 FTE
NAT-TCR Ellisville MO 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Nick's Towing Service 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Articularis Healthcare Group 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Kirkwood stair Millwork 1.3 TCR

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, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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