Industrial supplies, disposable plastics, paper, merchant wholesalers · Tennessee

APT-Knoxville

Knoxville, TN · ~19 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
4.8
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

APT-Knoxville runs at 217% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Industrial supplies, disposable plastics, paper, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

APT-Knoxville: 4.8 TCR = 217% of Industrial supplies, disposable plastics, paper, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

APT-Knoxville safety composite

APT-Knoxville scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 21%), 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

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.5

2016→2017

APT-Knoxville injury rate improved

APT-Knoxville's TCR fell 0.5 from 5.0 in 2016 to 4.5 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 5.0 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0.95× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=5.0 · 2017=4.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424130 · Knoxville, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 4.8 · 217% of ind

  • DART 4.5 DART
  • RANK #10/11
  • PHOTO WAXIE - Ontario
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~19 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: WAXIE - Ontario (0.0 TCR gap)

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APT-Knoxville in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows APT-Knoxville averages 4.8 TCR (217% of the Industrial supplies, disposable plastics, paper, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

APT-Knoxville TCR series: 2016=5 · 2017=4.5 · BLS 2.2

Where APT-Knoxville falls in its industry

290 Industrial supplies, disposabl establishments

Safer than 27% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 11 Industrial supplies, disposabl employers in Tennessee.

APT-Knoxville (19 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 2.9 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 APT-Knoxville
APT-Knoxville (19 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 2.9

APT-Knoxville has fewer employees than the Industrial supplies, disposable plastics median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.9. 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
2017 4.5 4.5 1 0 0
2016 5.0 5.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424130 · TN · Knoxville

290 Industrial supplies, disposable plastics, paper, merchant wholesalers 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. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR WAXIE - Ontario 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Illinois Division 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lakeland Supply Inc 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR RJ Schinner Branch 15 4.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE PHOENIX GIN COMPANY 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southwest Tennessee EMC - Covington 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southwest Tennessee EMC - Jackson 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE LC SoBro, LLC 19 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 HNL - Airport United Airlines Offices 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR ADI 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Miller Container - Rock Island 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR GSC Enterprises Inc. 4.8 TCR

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: 2017, 2016. 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.