Air filters, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing · Tennessee

VWTN

Chattanooga, TN · ~259 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
5.3
Avg TCR
5.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

VWTN runs at 97% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Air filters, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

VWTN: 5.3 TCR = 97% of Air filters, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing BLS 5.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

VWTN safety composite

VWTN scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 7%), 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

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% 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%).

Rising injury rate

VWTN: 3.7 → 6.8 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 6.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.16× in 2024

VWTN's TCR rose 3.1 from 3.7 in 2023 to 6.8 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.16× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336390 · Chattanooga, TN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 5.3 · 97% of ind

  • DART 6.1 DART
  • RANK #30/37
  • PHOTO Saris Equipment LLC
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~259 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Saris Equipment LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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VWTN in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows VWTN averages 5.3 TCR (97% of the Air filters, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

VWTN TCR series: 2023=3.7 · 2024=6.8 · BLS 5.4

Where VWTN falls in its industry

772 Air filters, automotive, truck establishments

Safer than 22% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #30 safest of 37 Air filters, automotive, truck employers in Tennessee.

VWTN (259 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 154 employees and a TCR of 3.2 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate VWTN
VWTN (259 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 154 employees and a TCR of 3.2

VWTN has more employees than the Air filters, automotive, truck, and bus, median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.2. 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 6.8 6.1 8 1 0
2023 3.7 3.7 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336390 · TN · Chattanooga

772 Air filters, automotive, truck, and bus, 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 Saris Equipment LLC 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Transfer Flow Inc. 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR EMLS 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR AHD 5.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE HealthTrust Facilities Management 259 FTE
STATE-SIZE TenCate Grass 259 FTE
STATE-SIZE Olin Corporation - Charleston plant 259 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lonza/Arch - Charleston 259 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 JBS Plainwell INC 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Algoo - Goodwater Center 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Tropicana Atlantic City 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Zero Motorcycles inc. 5.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Vafre - Fredericksburg 259 FTE
NAT-SIZE AT&T Mobility 259 FTE
NAT-SIZE FV Medical Transportation 259 FTE
NAT-SIZE Southern Airways Corporation 259 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.