Tufting machinery for textiles manufacturing · Tennessee

Tuftco Corp

Chattanooga, TN · ~104 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Tuftco Corp runs at 40% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Tufting machinery for textiles manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Tuftco Corp: 1.3 TCR = 40% of Tufting machinery for textiles manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Tuftco Corp safety composite

Tuftco Corp scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 22%), 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

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% 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

Tuftco Corp: 0.0 → 2.9 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 2.9 TCR · DART/TCR 2.19× in 2024

Tuftco Corp's TCR rose 2.9 from 0.0 in 2022 to 2.9 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2.19× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333249 · Chattanooga, TN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.3 · 40% of ind

  • DART 2.9 DART
  • RANK #5/14
  • PHOTO INDCO INC
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~104 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: INDCO INC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Tuftco Corp in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Tuftco Corp averages 1.3 TCR (40% of the Tufting machinery for textiles manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Tuftco Corp TCR series: 2022=0 · 2023=1.1 · 2024=2.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Tuftco Corp falls in its industry

448 Tufting machinery for textiles establishments

Safer than 82% 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 #5 safest of 14 Tufting machinery for textiles employers in Tennessee.

Tuftco Corp (104 employees, TCR 1.3) 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
Tuftco Corp (104 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Tuftco Corp has more employees than the Tufting machinery for textiles manufactu median and a lower 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
2024 2.9 2.9 3 0 0
2023 1.1 1.1 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333249 · TN · Chattanooga

448 Tufting machinery for textiles 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 INDCO INC 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Freudenberg Medical 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR RED DEVIL EQUIPMENT COMPANY 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR MAAG Reduction, Inc. 1.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE CableSouth Construction, LLC 104 FTE
STATE-SIZE FRANKLIN RD - CNR136 104 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wright Industrial Group, LLC 104 FTE
STATE-SIZE Richardson International 104 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 B-K Tool and Design, Inc. 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR South Pointe Rehabilitation & Care Center 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Pedowitz Machinery Movers of Florida 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR ORBIS RPM Pendergrass 1.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hood Container Covington 104 FTE
NAT-SIZE Red Willow County Hillcrest Nursing Home 104 FTE
NAT-SIZE BZJV 104 FTE
NAT-SIZE North Sound BOSC Whidbey 104 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. 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.