Torque converters, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing · Tennessee

Transtar Industries

Cookeville, TN · ~231 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
9.7
Avg TCR
5.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Transtar Industries runs at 179% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Torque converters, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Transtar Industries: 9.7 TCR = 179% of Torque converters, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing BLS 5.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Transtar Industries safety composite

Transtar Industries scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 5%), 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 9.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.5

2017→2021

Transtar Industries injury rate improved

Transtar Industries's TCR fell 2.5 from 13.4 in 2017 to 10.9 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2017 at 13.4 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.49× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=13.4 · 2018=7.3 · 2019=8.9 · 2020=7.8 · 2021=10.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336350 · Cookeville, TN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 9.7 · 179% of ind

  • DART 4.8 DART
  • RANK #15/16
  • PHOTO Production Saw & Mac…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 79 inj
  • SIZE ~231 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Production Saw & Machine (0.0 TCR gap)

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Transtar Industries in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Transtar Industries averages 9.7 TCR (179% of the Torque converters, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Transtar Industries TCR series: 2017=13.4 · 2018=7.3 · 2019=8.9 · 2020=7.8 · 2021=10.9 · BLS 5.4

Where Transtar Industries falls in its industry

320 Torque converters, automotive, establishments

Safer than 5% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #15 safest of 16 Torque converters, automotive, employers in Tennessee.

Transtar Industries (231 employees, TCR 9.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 200 employees and a TCR of 2.9 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 01,0002,0003,0004,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Transtar Industries
Transtar Industries (231 employees, TCR 9.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 200 employees and a TCR of 2.9

Transtar Industries has more employees than the Torque converters, automotive, truck, an median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.9. 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
2021 10.9 4.8 12 4 0
2020 7.8 2.8 8 3 0
2019 8.9 6.2 13 3 0
2018 7.3 4.8 14 4 0
2017 13.4 8.9 32 10 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336350 · TN · Cookeville

320 Torque converters, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 135 employers in Cookeville, 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 Production Saw & Machine 9.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Versa-Tech Technologies, LLC 9.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tower 9.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Automotive Division of Indiana 9.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sequoyah Nuclear Plant 231 FTE
STATE-SIZE Duro Bag - Jackson 231 FTE
STATE-SIZE Innovative Water Care, LLC 231 FTE
STATE-SIZE Maryville 231 FTE
CITY-NEAR CSC -COPORATE SERVICE CENTER 974 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cookeville CSC 908 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cookeville CKV 4 855 FTE
CITY-NEAR PUTNAM COUNTY LOCAL GOVERNMENT 773 FTE
NAT-TCR Gammon Pools 9.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Bohannon Building 9.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Hartford Finishing West 9.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Innovative Resources for Independence 9.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Pro-Form Laboratories 231 FTE
NAT-SIZE Querencia Barton Creek 231 FTE
NAT-SIZE Diana's Bakery Agawam 231 FTE
NAT-SIZE LP Port Charlotte, LLC 231 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.