Bottles, plastics, manufacturing · Tennessee

Tri State Distribution, Inc

Sparta, TN · ~360 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Tri State Distribution, Inc runs at 344% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Bottles, plastics, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Tri State Distribution, Inc: 11.3 TCR = 344% of Bottles, plastics, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Tri State Distribution, Inc safety composite

Tri State Distribution, Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 2%), 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 11.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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%).

TCR Δ

−5.8

2016→2019

Tri State Distribution, Inc injury rate improved

Tri State Distribution, Inc's TCR fell 5.8 from 13.7 in 2016 to 7.9 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2016 at 13.7 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.36× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=13.7 · 2017=13.0 · 2018=10.7 · 2019=7.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326160 · Sparta, TN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 11.3 · 344% of ind

  • DART 4.1 DART
  • RANK #11/11
  • PHOTO Plascene Inc
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 145 inj
  • SIZE ~360 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Plascene Inc (0.3 TCR gap)

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Tri State Distribution, Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Tri State Distribution, Inc averages 11.3 TCR (344% of the Bottles, plastics, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Tri State Distribution, Inc TCR series: 2016=13.7 · 2017=13 · 2018=10.7 · 2019=7.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Tri State Distribution, Inc falls in its industry

411 Bottles, plastics, manufacturi establishments

Safer than 2% 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 #11 safest of 11 Bottles, plastics, manufacturi employers in Tennessee.

Tri State Distribution, Inc (360 employees, TCR 11.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 77 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Tri State Distribution, Inc
Tri State Distribution, Inc (360 employees, TCR 11.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 77 employees and a TCR of 2.0

Tri State Distribution, Inc has more employees than the Bottles, plastics, manufacturing 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
2019 7.9 4.1 29 0 0
2018 10.7 6.6 33 1 0
2017 13.0 5.1 41 0 0
2016 13.7 5.8 42 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326160 · TN · Sparta

411 Bottles, plastics, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 33 employers in Sparta, 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 Plascene Inc 11.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Container Services Inc - PA 11.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Crisp Container 10.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Yoshino America Corporation 10.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE FiberWeb 360 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4323 360 FTE
STATE-SIZE Parkridge Valley Hospital 360 FTE
STATE-SIZE City Government - Fire Protection 360 FTE
CITY-NEAR Life Force Sparta 6,606 FTE
CITY-NEAR Altium Packaging - Sparta 396 FTE
CITY-NEAR THK Rhythm North America 275 FTE
CITY-NEAR 587 273 FTE
NAT-TCR Flcl 39th 11.3 TCR
NAT-TCR ACM Georgia LLC 11.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Mt. Pleasant Street Bakery 11.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Meridian Nursing and Rehab - Shrewsbury 11.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE NB Coatings Inc 360 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lindsay 360 FTE
NAT-SIZE Charleston CUSD #1 360 FTE
NAT-SIZE G.S. Precision, Inc 360 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: 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.