Iron foundries · Tennessee

Waupaca Foundry, Inc. Plant 6

Etowah, TN · ~515 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Waupaca Foundry, Inc. Plant 6 runs at 133% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Iron foundries workplace, earning a grade D.

Waupaca Foundry, Inc. Plant 6: 4.4 TCR = 133% of Iron foundries BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Waupaca Foundry, Inc. Plant 6 safety composite

Waupaca Foundry, Inc. Plant 6 scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 94% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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

74/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% of industry peers

DART rate
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 94% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

−5.2

2016→2023

Waupaca Foundry, Inc. Plant 6 injury rate improved

Waupaca Foundry, Inc. Plant 6's TCR fell 5.2 from 5.2 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2019 at 7.3 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=5.2 · 2017=4.4 · 2018=6.8 · 2019=7.3 · 2020=6.0 · 2021=2.1 · 2022=3.3 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331511 · Etowah, TN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.4 · 133% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #4/8
  • PHOTO Willman Industries, …
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 206 inj
  • SIZE ~515 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Willman Industries, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Waupaca Foundry, Inc. Plant 6 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Waupaca Foundry, Inc. Plant 6 averages 4.4 TCR (133% of the Iron foundries BLS benchmark).

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

Waupaca Foundry, Inc. Plant 6 TCR series: 2016=5.2 · 2017=4.4 · 2018=6.8 · 2019=7.3 · 2020=6 · 2021=2.1 · 2022=3.3 · 2023=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Waupaca Foundry, Inc. Plant 6 falls in its industry

272 Iron foundries establishments

Safer than 71% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 7.2.

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 8 Iron foundries employers in Tennessee.

Waupaca Foundry, Inc. Plant 6 (515 employees, TCR 4.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 112 employees and a TCR of 7.2 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 0200400600 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Waupaca Foundry, Inc. Plant 6
Waupaca Foundry, Inc. Plant 6 (515 employees, TCR 4.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 112 employees and a TCR of 7.2

Waupaca Foundry, Inc. Plant 6 has more employees than the Iron foundries median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 7.2. 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
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 3.3 1.6 7 3 0
2021 2.1 1.3 13 0 0
2020 6.0 3.5 36 2 0
2019 7.3 4.4 49 3 0
2018 6.8 3.9 44 0 0
2017 4.4 2.3 25 0 0
2016 5.2 2.3 32 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331511 · TN · Etowah

272 Iron foundries employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 14 employers in Etowah, 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 Willman Industries, Inc. 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Performance Castings LLC 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hodges Foundry 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Browntown Foundry 4.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE The Hershey Company-Memphis, TN 515 FTE
STATE-SIZE Embraer Aircraft Maintenance Services Inc. 515 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ardent Health Services 515 FTE
STATE-SIZE 975 Kansas, Memphis Plant 516 FTE
CITY-NEAR Etowah 310 FTE
CITY-NEAR Haren Construction Co., Inc. 157 FTE
CITY-NEAR Evonik Corporation 138 FTE
CITY-NEAR Etowah Health Care Center 91 FTE
NAT-TCR C & L Electric Cooperative Corporation 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Best Circuit Boards 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Brewery Vivant 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Metzler Forest Products LLC 4.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hanesbrands, Inc. Cleveland Distribution Center 515 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fresenius USA Inc. 515 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dold Foods 515 FTE
NAT-SIZE City of Kokomo 515 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: 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.