Culverts, highway, road and street, construction · Tennessee
Blount County Highway Dept
Maryville, TN · ~61 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.
- D
- Poor Safety Record
- 5.1
- Avg TCR
- 2.8
- Industry avg
- 0
- Fatalities
The verdict
Blount County Highway Dept runs at 181% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Culverts, highway, road and street, construction workplace, earning a grade D.
Blount County Highway Dept: 5.1 TCR = 181% of Culverts, highway, road and street, construction BLS 2.8 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)
Blount County Highway Dept safety composite
Blount County Highway Dept scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% 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).
32/100
Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures
- Total Case Rate (TCR)
- F 5.06 per 100 workers
Safer than 29% of industry peers
- DART rate
- F 3.84 per 100 workers
Safer than 21% of industry peers
- Fatalities
- D 0
Safer than 53% 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
Blount County Highway Dept: 7.2 → 9.6 TCR
Peak year 2022 @ 9.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.76× in 2022
Blount County Highway Dept's TCR rose 2.4 from 7.2 in 2016 to 9.6 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 0.76× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).
OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard
Establishment book 237310 · Maryville, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL
Grade D · TCR 5.1 · 181% of ind
- DART 3.8 DART
- RANK #64/94
- PHOTO Illinois Construction
- BOOK 5y book
- INJ 9 inj
- SIZE ~61 FTE
Nearest TCR peer: Illinois Construction (0.0 TCR gap)
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Blount County Highway Dept in the TCR neighbourhood
Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers
- This site
Blount County Highway Dept
5.1 TCR
- Illinois Const
Illinois Construction
5.1 TCR
- MDOT MAINT GAR
MDOT MAINT GAR GR LEDGE - MDOT
5.1 TCR
- The Paul Peter
The Paul Peterson Company
5 TCR
- PARNELL & ASSO
PARNELL & ASSOCIATES INC
5 TCR
What this shows Blount County Highway Dept averages 5.1 TCR (181% of the Culverts, highway, road and street, construction BLS benchmark).
Blount County Highway Dept TCR series: 2016=7.2 · 2017=4.6 · 2019=2 · 2020=1.9 · 2022=9.6 · BLS 2.8
Where Blount County Highway Dept falls in its industry
4,078 Culverts, highway, road and st establishmentsSafer than 29% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.
Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #64 safest of 94 Culverts, highway, road and st employers in Tennessee.
Blount County Highway Dept has fewer employees than the Culverts, highway, road and street, cons median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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 | 9.6 | 3.8 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 1.9 | 1.9 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 2.0 | 0.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | 4.6 | 2.3 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | 7.2 | 0.0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
OSHA ITA peer cross-reference
Establishment peer ledger
237310 · TN · Maryville
4,078 Culverts, highway, road and street, construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 79 employers in Maryville, 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 | Illinois Construction | 5.1 TCR |
| NAICS-TCR | The Paul Peterson Company | 5.0 TCR |
| NAICS-TCR | PARNELL & ASSOCIATES INC | 5.0 TCR |
| NAICS-TCR | MDOT MAINT GAR GR LEDGE - MDOT | 5.1 TCR |
| STATE-SIZE | CORPORATE OFFICE | 61 FTE |
| STATE-SIZE | Tri-State Utility Construction, LLC | 61 FTE |
| STATE-SIZE | JOB 230B | 61 FTE |
| STATE-SIZE | Bluff City Electrical Contractors, LLC | 61 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | DENSO Manufacturing Tennessee, Inc. | 4,655 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | Denso Manufacturing Tennessee, Inc.- DMTN | 4,498 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | Blount Memorial Hospital | 2,046 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | Clayton Homes | 1,919 FTE |
| NAT-TCR | The Halfway Home of the Lehigh Valley | 5.1 TCR |
| NAT-TCR | Portland | 5.1 TCR |
| NAT-TCR | National City - WestAir Gases and Equipment, Inc. | 5.1 TCR |
| NAT-TCR | 745 - Lake Delton | 5.1 TCR |
| NAT-SIZE | Hurst Jaws of Life, Inc. | 61 FTE |
| NAT-SIZE | Crystal Inn Hotel & Suites Downtown | 61 FTE |
| NAT-SIZE | Apollo Drain | 61 FTE |
| NAT-SIZE | Atlantic City NJ | 61 FTE |
Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.