Discount Department Stores · Tennessee

0795 - Knoxville NW

Knoxville, TN · ~136 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.1
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

0795 - Knoxville NW runs at 238% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Discount Department Stores workplace, earning a grade F.

0795 - Knoxville NW: 8.1 TCR = 238% of Discount Department Stores BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

0795 - Knoxville NW safety composite

0795 - Knoxville NW scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 5%), 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

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.1 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% 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

0795 - Knoxville NW: 5.9 → 8.7 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 12.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.07× in 2024

0795 - Knoxville NW's TCR rose 2.8 from 5.9 in 2019 to 8.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 12.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.07× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452112 · Knoxville, TN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 8.1 · 238% of ind

  • DART 8.7 DART
  • RANK #70/81
  • PHOTO 1399 - Lake Charles
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 22 inj
  • SIZE ~136 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 1399 - Lake Charles (0.0 TCR gap)

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0795 - Knoxville NW in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 0795 - Knoxville NW averages 8.1 TCR (238% of the Discount Department Stores BLS benchmark).

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

0795 - Knoxville NW TCR series: 2019=5.9 · 2021=12.2 · 2022=7.4 · 2023=6.4 · 2024=8.7 · BLS 3.4

Where 0795 - Knoxville NW falls in its industry

4,991 Discount Department Stores establishments

Safer than 17% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #70 safest of 81 Discount Department Stores employers in Tennessee.

0795 - Knoxville NW (136 employees, TCR 8.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 0100200300400 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate 0795 - Knoxville NW
0795 - Knoxville NW (136 employees, TCR 8.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.4

0795 - Knoxville NW has more employees than the Discount Department Stores median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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 8.7 8.7 7 0 0
2023 6.4 6.4 5 0 0
2022 7.4 6.2 1 5 0
2021 12.2 8.5 5 5 0
2019 5.9 4.4 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452112 · TN · Knoxville

4,991 Discount Department Stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 747 employers in Knoxville, 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 1399 - Lake Charles 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ross store 324 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 0350 - Flint 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1150 - College Point 8.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Jolly Roofing & Contracting Nashville Warehouse 136 FTE
STATE-SIZE International Paper Morristown Container 136 FTE
STATE-SIZE RCTenn 136 FTE
STATE-SIZE G and L Tube, LLC 136 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cellular Sales Services Group LLC 6,387 FTE
CITY-NEAR University Health System, Inc 5,215 FTE
CITY-NEAR Functional Pathways of TN LLC 2,258 FTE
CITY-NEAR HES Facilities Services K-12 2,157 FTE
NAT-TCR 1399 - Lake Charles 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Garden Grove Vend 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Ft Pierce FL 36031 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Ankeny Police Department 8.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE 0750 - Valdosta 136 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0307 - Palm Springs 136 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0255 - Irving 136 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2122 - Hoffman Estates 136 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, 2021, 2019. 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.