Pencils manufacturing · Tennessee

Wagner Pencil Co

Bakewell, TN · ~19 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Wagner Pencil Co runs at 65% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Pencils manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Wagner Pencil Co: 2.1 TCR = 65% of Pencils manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Wagner Pencil Co safety composite

Wagner Pencil Co scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 79% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

C

64/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% 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

Wagner Pencil Co: 3.9 → 5.7 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 6.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Wagner Pencil Co's TCR rose 1.8 from 3.9 in 2016 to 5.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 6.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 339940 · Bakewell, TN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.1 · 65% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK P59
  • PHOTO Jack Richeson & Co.
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~19 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Jack Richeson & Co. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Wagner Pencil Co in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Wagner Pencil Co averages 2.1 TCR (65% of the Pencils manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Wagner Pencil Co TCR series: 2016=3.9 · 2017=3.9 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=6 · 2024=5.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Wagner Pencil Co falls in its industry

56 Pencils manufacturing establishments

Safer than 59% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Wagner Pencil Co (19 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 123 employees and a TCR of 2.4 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 02004006008001,000 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Wagner Pencil Co
Wagner Pencil Co (19 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 123 employees and a TCR of 2.4

Wagner Pencil Co has fewer employees than the Pencils manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.4. 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
2024 5.7 0.0 1 0 0
2023 6.0 6.0 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 3.9 3.9 1 0 0
2016 3.9 3.9 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

339940 · TN · Bakewell

56 Pencils manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 3 employers in Bakewell, TN · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Jack Richeson & Co. 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pilot Corporation of America 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Strauss Engineering Company 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR BIC Graphic Bldg 2 2.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE PHOENIX GIN COMPANY 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southwest Tennessee EMC - Covington 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southwest Tennessee EMC - Jackson 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE LC SoBro, LLC 19 FTE
CITY-NEAR AAkron Rule Corp TN 124 FTE
CITY-NEAR AAkron Rule Corp. - Bakewell 105 FTE
NAT-TCR Franjo Construction 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR TEK-FINS 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Webco Industries, Inc. - Kellyville Specialty Tube 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Wayne's Foods Plus-Luck 2.1 TCR

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, 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.