Textile Making Machinery Manufacturing · Tennessee

Tuftco Corp TMD

Chattanooga, TN · ~119 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Tuftco Corp TMD runs at 127% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Textile Making Machinery Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Tuftco Corp TMD: 4.2 TCR = 127% of Textile Making Machinery Manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Tuftco Corp TMD safety composite

Tuftco Corp TMD scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 33%), 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

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% 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

−3.9

2016→2021

Tuftco Corp TMD injury rate improved

Tuftco Corp TMD's TCR fell 3.9 from 5.9 in 2016 to 2.0 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2018 at 6.3 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.48× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=5.9 · 2017=3.6 · 2018=6.3 · 2019=4.2 · 2020=3.1 · 2021=2.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333249 · Chattanooga, TN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.2 · 127% of ind

  • DART 2.0 DART
  • RANK #10/14
  • PHOTO Stratasys SDM (Walla…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 31 inj
  • SIZE ~119 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Stratasys SDM (Wallace) (0.0 TCR gap)

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Tuftco Corp TMD in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Tuftco Corp TMD averages 4.2 TCR (127% of the Textile Making Machinery Manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Tuftco Corp TMD TCR series: 2016=5.9 · 2017=3.6 · 2018=6.3 · 2019=4.2 · 2020=3.1 · 2021=2 · BLS 3.3

Where Tuftco Corp TMD falls in its industry

448 Textile Making Machinery Manuf establishments

Safer than 33% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 14 Textile Making Machinery Manuf employers in Tennessee.

Tuftco Corp TMD (119 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 0200400600800 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Tuftco Corp TMD
Tuftco Corp TMD (119 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Tuftco Corp TMD has more employees than the Textile Making Machinery Manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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
2021 2.0 2.0 2 0 0
2020 3.1 1.0 3 0 0
2019 4.2 4.2 5 0 0
2018 6.3 4.7 8 0 0
2017 3.6 3.6 5 0 0
2016 5.9 3.7 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333249 · TN · Chattanooga

448 Textile Making Machinery Manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 695 employers in Chattanooga, 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 Stratasys SDM (Wallace) 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Southwest Mold, Inc dba Seitz 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR ValTec, LLC 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Allied Dies, Inc. 4.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE T&A - Tennessee 119 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cleveland Utilities - Electric Division 119 FTE
STATE-SIZE R&R Erectors Inc dba S&H Erectors 119 FTE
STATE-SIZE NABCO Electric 119 FTE
CITY-NEAR CHATTANOOGA COKE 8,650 FTE
CITY-NEAR CHATTANOOGA FOOD 8,650 FTE
CITY-NEAR USXpress 7,385 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cardiology GB 6,606 FTE
NAT-TCR Get Fresh Produce - Indianapolis 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR First Student - East Main Street 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Volvo Logistics Lewis Center 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Home Health Roper Mt 4.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE 1915-2003X 119 FTE
NAT-SIZE 119 - Archer Western de Moya JV III 119 FTE
NAT-SIZE Signode Industrial Group, LLC 119 FTE
NAT-SIZE Buckles-Smith Electric Corporate Santa Clara 119 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, 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.