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
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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).

F

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

TCR

What this shows Blount County Highway Dept averages 5.1 TCR (181% of the Culverts, highway, road and street, construction BLS benchmark).

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

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 establishments

Safer than 29% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

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 94 Culverts, highway, road and st employers in Tennessee.

Blount County Highway Dept (61 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 01,0002,0003,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Blount County Highway Dept
Blount County Highway Dept (61 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0

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 →

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, 2020, 2019, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.