Transportation · Tennessee

ABF Freight 248

Knoxville, TN · ~48 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

ABF Freight 248 runs at 110% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Transportation workplace, earning a grade C.

ABF Freight 248: 5.0 TCR = 110% of Transportation BLS 4.5 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

ABF Freight 248 safety composite

ABF Freight 248 scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 76% 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

63/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% of industry peers

DART rate
B 1.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% 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

−4.5

2016→2024

ABF Freight 248 injury rate improved

ABF Freight 248's TCR fell 4.5 from 7.1 in 2016 to 2.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 8.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.26× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=7.1 · 2017=8.2 · 2018=8.7 · 2019=3.6 · 2020=2.4 · 2021=4.5 · 2022=2.2 · 2023=5.5 · 2024=2.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484122 · Knoxville, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 5.0 · 110% of ind

  • DART 1.3 DART
  • RANK #64/123
  • PHOTO R+L Carriers - COR
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 27 inj
  • SIZE ~48 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: R+L Carriers - COR (0.0 TCR gap)

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ABF Freight 248 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows ABF Freight 248 averages 5.0 TCR (110% of the Transportation BLS benchmark).

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

ABF Freight 248 TCR series: 2016=7.1 · 2017=8.2 · 2018=8.7 · 2019=3.6 · 2020=2.4 · 2021=4.5 · 2022=2.2 · 2023=5.5 · 2024=2.6 · BLS 4.5

Where ABF Freight 248 falls in its industry

3,020 Transportation establishments

Safer than 59% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #64 safest of 123 Transportation employers in Tennessee.

ABF Freight 248 (48 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 5.6 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate ABF Freight 248
ABF Freight 248 (48 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 5.6

ABF Freight 248 has fewer employees than the Transportation median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.6. 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 2.6 1.3 2 0 0
2023 5.5 4.4 5 0 0
2022 2.2 2.2 2 0 0
2021 4.5 3.4 4 0 0
2020 2.4 2.4 2 0 0
2019 3.6 3.6 3 0 0
2018 8.7 2.9 3 0 0
2017 8.2 2.7 3 0 0
2016 7.1 4.7 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484122 · TN · Knoxville

3,020 Transportation 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 R+L Carriers - COR 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR ABF Freight 100 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR ALB-ODFL 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6284-YR-411 RX 5.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bolivar Energy Authority 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Electric Department 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jefferson Cocke County Utility District 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Chattanooga Service Center 48 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 Avista Sandpoint 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR ABF Freight 100 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Round Rock 10532 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Amherst 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE ABF Freight 067 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Vesta Foundation Solutions 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Penney Lawn Service Inc 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Terminix Services Inc 48 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, 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.