Food Service Contractor · Tennessee

4028 University of Tennessee South

Pulaski, TN · ~23 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
3.0
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

4028 University of Tennessee South runs at 99% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Food Service Contractor workplace, earning a grade C.

4028 University of Tennessee South: 3.0 TCR = 99% of Food Service Contractor BLS 3.0 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

4028 University of Tennessee South safety composite

4028 University of Tennessee South scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 70% 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

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% 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

4028 University of Tennessee South: 0.0 → 8.9 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 8.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2023

4028 University of Tennessee South's TCR rose 8.9 from 0.0 in 2021 to 8.9 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 722310 · Pulaski, TN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.0 · 99% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #60/133
  • PHOTO Worcester St Cafe
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 0 inj
  • SIZE ~23 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Worcester St Cafe (0.0 TCR gap)

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4028 University of Tennessee South in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 4028 University of Tennessee South averages 3.0 TCR (99% of the Food Service Contractor BLS benchmark).

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

4028 University of Tennessee South TCR series: 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=8.9 · BLS 3.0

Where 4028 University of Tennessee South falls in its industry

6,952 Food Service Contractor establishments

Safer than 58% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #60 safest of 133 Food Service Contractor employers in Tennessee.

4028 University of Tennessee South (23 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate 4028 University of Tennessee South
4028 University of Tennessee South (23 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.5

4028 University of Tennessee South has fewer employees than the Food Service Contractor median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 8.9 0.0 0 1 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

722310 · TN · Pulaski

6,952 Food Service Contractor employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 38 employers in Pulaski, 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 Worcester St Cafe 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR WPI 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR SODEXO AT CSM FOOD COURT 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR CLC - SOMEREN GLEN 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Manchester DREMC 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE East Tennessee Mechanical Contractors 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE CDE - Metro Nashville District Energy System 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Avenue Construction 23 FTE
CITY-NEAR PULASKI PLANT 611 FTE
CITY-NEAR 35370 - PULASKI PLANT 474 FTE
CITY-NEAR SaarGummi Tennessee Inc. 426 FTE
CITY-NEAR Adient, Pulaski TN 299 FTE
NAT-TCR Jordy Construction 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Suddath Relocation Systems of Orlando, Inc. 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR M.L. Albright & Sons, Inc 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Dubuque Ia Plant 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE 1108 Hanover Area School District 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1064 West Perry School District 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1052 Hampton Twp School District 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Service Machine 23 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. 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.