SCRAP AND WASTE MATERIALS · Tennessee

3146 Knoxville Recycle

Knoxville, TN · ~34 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.1
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

3146 Knoxville Recycle runs at 96% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical SCRAP AND WASTE MATERIALS workplace, earning a grade C.

3146 Knoxville Recycle: 2.1 TCR = 96% of SCRAP AND WASTE MATERIALS BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

3146 Knoxville Recycle safety composite

3146 Knoxville Recycle scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 73% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 19%), 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).

D

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% 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

3146 Knoxville Recycle: 0.0 → 8.5 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 8.5 TCR · DART/TCR 2.66× in 2022

3146 Knoxville Recycle's TCR rose 8.5 from 0.0 in 2019 to 8.5 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 2.66× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423930 · Knoxville, TN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.1 · 96% of ind

  • DART 5.6 DART
  • RANK #15/35
  • PHOTO SA Recycling, Bakers…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~34 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SA Recycling, Bakersfield (0.0 TCR gap)

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3146 Knoxville Recycle in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 3146 Knoxville Recycle averages 2.1 TCR (96% of the SCRAP AND WASTE MATERIALS BLS benchmark).

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

3146 Knoxville Recycle TCR series: 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=8.5 · BLS 2.2

Where 3146 Knoxville Recycle falls in its industry

1,126 SCRAP AND WASTE MATERIALS establishments

Safer than 73% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #15 safest of 35 SCRAP AND WASTE MATERIALS employers in Tennessee.

3146 Knoxville Recycle (34 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 4.0 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 020406080100 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate 3146 Knoxville Recycle
3146 Knoxville Recycle (34 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 4.0

3146 Knoxville Recycle has fewer employees than the SCRAP AND WASTE MATERIALS median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.0. 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
2022 8.5 5.6 3 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

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423930 · TN · Knoxville

1,126 SCRAP AND WASTE MATERIALS 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 SA Recycling, Bakersfield 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pensacola, FL - Advanced Technology Recycling 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mays Landing 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cronimet Corporation Aliquippa 2.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Obion County Hatchery 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE UCEMC Cookeville 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE RKA Construction, LLC 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE AGM-Tennessee 34 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 Price Less Foods #477 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR DG Service - Florida 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Northwestern Medicine Chicago Proton Centers 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR US - Branch Network : 0312 2.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE IWI Incorporated 1399 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4588 Knox Food Service Packaging 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4262 Highland Sheet Plant 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Price Rite Store 228 Queensbury 34 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 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.