Discount Department Stores · Tennessee

2815 - Knoxville South

Knoxville, TN · ~165 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.4
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

2815 - Knoxville South runs at 159% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Discount Department Stores workplace, earning a grade D.

2815 - Knoxville South: 5.4 TCR = 159% of Discount Department Stores BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

2815 - Knoxville South safety composite

2815 - Knoxville South scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 39%), 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

56/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% 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%).

TCR Δ

−3.3

2019→2024

2815 - Knoxville South injury rate improved

2815 - Knoxville South's TCR fell 3.3 from 5.5 in 2019 to 2.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 11.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=5.5 · 2021=8.0 · 2022=11.4 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=2.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 5.4 · 159% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #53/81
  • PHOTO 0355 - Topeka
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~165 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 0355 - Topeka (0.0 TCR gap)

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2815 - Knoxville South in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 2815 - Knoxville South averages 5.4 TCR (159% of the Discount Department Stores BLS benchmark).

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

2815 - Knoxville South TCR series: 2019=5.5 · 2021=8 · 2022=11.4 · 2023=0 · 2024=2.1 · BLS 3.4

Where 2815 - Knoxville South falls in its industry

4,991 Discount Department Stores establishments

Safer than 39% 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 #53 safest of 81 Discount Department Stores employers in Tennessee.

2815 - Knoxville South (165 employees, TCR 5.4) 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 2815 - Knoxville South
2815 - Knoxville South (165 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.4

2815 - Knoxville South 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 2.1 0.0 2 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 11.4 11.4 2 9 0
2021 8.0 8.0 6 2 0
2019 5.5 4.1 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 0355 - Topeka 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1501 - Colorado Springs East 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR DDs DISCOUNTS Store 5001 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 0850 - West Las Vegas 5.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Lendlease - Nashville Office 165 FTE
STATE-SIZE Best Choice Roofing and Home Improvement Incorporated 165 FTE
STATE-SIZE Old Hickory Smokehouse LLC 165 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lewisburg Printing Company 165 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 1501 - Colorado Springs East 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 0355 - Topeka 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Hyde County Pullet Farm 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Cemplex Group Georgia, LLC 5.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE 2824 - East Peoria 165 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2529 - Exeter Township 165 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2440 - Fort Wayne SW 165 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2439 - Selinsgrove 165 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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