Automobile hardware, metal, manufacturing · Tennessee

Volkswagen Group of America, Chattanooga Operations LLC

Chattanooga, TN · ~3,024 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Volkswagen Group of America, Chattanooga Operations LLC runs at 122% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Automobile hardware, metal, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Volkswagen Group of America, Chattanooga Operations LLC: 4.0 TCR = 122% of Automobile hardware, metal, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Volkswagen Group of America, Chattanooga Operations LLC safety composite

Volkswagen Group of America, Chattanooga Operations LLC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 15%), 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

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% 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

Volkswagen Group of America, Chattanooga Operations LLC: 2.6 → 5.5 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 5.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.99× in 2022

Volkswagen Group of America, Chattanooga Operations LLC's TCR rose 2.9 from 2.6 in 2016 to 5.5 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 0.99× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332510 · Chattanooga, TN ABOVE-IND · LARGE

Grade D · TCR 4.0 · 122% of ind

  • DART 4.0 DART
  • RANK #4/4
  • PHOTO Glendinning Products…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 300 inj
  • SIZE ~3,024 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Glendinning Products LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Volkswagen Group of America, Chattanooga Operations LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Volkswagen Group of America, Chattanooga Operations LLC averages 4.0 TCR (122% of the Automobile hardware, metal, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Volkswagen Group of America, Chattanooga Operations LLC TCR series: 2016=2.6 · 2022=5.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Volkswagen Group of America, Chattanooga Operations LLC falls in its industry

189 Automobile hardware, metal, ma establishments

Safer than 39% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 4 Automobile hardware, metal, ma employers in Tennessee.

Volkswagen Group of America, Chattanooga Operations LLC (3,024 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 3.4 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 Volkswagen Group of America, Chattanooga Operations LLC
Volkswagen Group of America, Chattanooga Operations LLC (3,024 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Volkswagen Group of America, Chattanooga Operations LLC has more employees than the Automobile hardware, metal, manufacturin median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.4. 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
2022 5.5 4.0 226 2 0
2016 2.6 1.6 74 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332510 · TN · Chattanooga

189 Automobile hardware, metal, 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 Glendinning Products LLC 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pelco Products, Inc. 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Napoleon/Lynx-West 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR A L Hansen Mfg. Co. 4.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis 2,943 FTE
STATE-SIZE TriStar Centennial Medical Center 3,106 FTE
STATE-SIZE North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : CHA1 2,900 FTE
STATE-SIZE Varsity Spirit 2,900 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 Park Jeep Burnsville 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Baldwin Pole Mississippi LLC 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Johnny Rocket's #261 Bally's 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 487340-Prosper Po 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Medical City Dallas 3,024 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lafayette Operations 3,025 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hendrick Medical Center 3,025 FTE
NAT-SIZE Indiana Auto Plant 3,023 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: 2022, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.