Utility line (i.e., communication, electric power), construction · Tennessee

Bristol Tennessee Essential Services

Bristol, TN · ~77 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.2
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bristol Tennessee Essential Services runs at 115% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Utility line (i.e., communication, electric power), construction workplace, earning a grade C.

Bristol Tennessee Essential Services: 3.2 TCR = 115% of Utility line (i.e., communication, electric power), construction BLS 2.8 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bristol Tennessee Essential Services safety composite

Bristol Tennessee Essential Services scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 23%), 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

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Bristol Tennessee Essential Services: 0.0 → 5.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 5.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.83× in 2024

Bristol Tennessee Essential Services's TCR rose 5.4 from 0.0 in 2021 to 5.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.83× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237130 · Bristol, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.2 · 115% of ind

  • DART 2.7 DART
  • RANK #14/26
  • PHOTO Directline Communica…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~77 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Directline Communications Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bristol Tennessee Essential Services in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bristol Tennessee Essential Services averages 3.2 TCR (115% of the Utility line (i.e., communication, electric power), construction BLS benchmark).

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

Bristol Tennessee Essential Services TCR series: 2021=0 · 2022=3.1 · 2023=4.4 · 2024=5.4 · BLS 2.8

Where Bristol Tennessee Essential Services falls in its industry

1,605 Utility line (i.e., communicat establishments

Safer than 33% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #14 safest of 26 Utility line (i.e., communicat employers in Tennessee.

Bristol Tennessee Essential Services (77 employees, TCR 3.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 2.0 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Bristol Tennessee Essential Services
Bristol Tennessee Essential Services (77 employees, TCR 3.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 2.0

Bristol Tennessee Essential Services has more employees than the Utility line (i.e., communication, elect median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.0. 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
2024 5.4 2.7 2 2 0
2023 4.4 0.0 3 0 0
2022 3.1 3.1 1 1 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237130 · TN · Bristol

1,605 Utility line (i.e., communication, electric power), construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 57 employers in Bristol, 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 Directline Communications Inc. 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Electric Power Board of Chattanooga 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR NA-US-NY-Elmsford-Ridgewood Drive 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR NA-US-OR-Portland-NE 112th Avenue 3.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE The Foundation Specialists 77 FTE
STATE-SIZE Porter Roofing Contractors Morrison, TN 77 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mid South Industrial, Inc. 77 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tri State Plumbing Heating & Air Conditioning Contractors Inc 77 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bristol Regional Medical Center 1,620 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ballad Health- Bristol Regional Medical Center 1,155 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 620 304 FTE
CITY-NEAR 620 291 FTE
NAT-TCR Trucking 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR CAIRE - Manufacturing 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 219 - Homer Glen 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Cleanpart South 3.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Aspire Delivery 77 FTE
NAT-SIZE S10163 - Stateline Hauling 77 FTE
NAT-SIZE North Central Insulation, INC 77 FTE
NAT-SIZE Selkirk Pharma 77 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.