General freight trucking, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) · Tennessee

Central Freight Lines - Knoxville TN

Knoxville, TN · ~32 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.3
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Central Freight Lines - Knoxville TN runs at 139% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical General freight trucking, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) workplace, earning a grade D.

Central Freight Lines - Knoxville TN: 6.3 TCR = 139% of General freight trucking, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Central Freight Lines - Knoxville TN safety composite

Central Freight Lines - Knoxville TN scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 36%), 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).

D

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% of industry peers

DART rate
D 4.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% 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

−0.5

2018→2021

Central Freight Lines - Knoxville TN injury rate improved

Central Freight Lines - Knoxville TN's TCR fell 0.5 from 5.4 in 2018 to 4.9 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 8.4 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.79× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=5.4 · 2020=8.4 · 2021=4.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 6.3 · 139% of ind

  • DART 4.9 DART
  • RANK #87/123
  • PHOTO Chillicothe OH FXFE-…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~32 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Chillicothe OH FXFE-CTH (0.0 TCR gap)

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Central Freight Lines - Knoxville TN in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Central Freight Lines - Knoxville TN averages 6.3 TCR (139% of the General freight trucking, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) BLS benchmark).

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

Central Freight Lines - Knoxville TN TCR series: 2018=5.4 · 2020=8.4 · 2021=4.9 · BLS 4.5

Where Central Freight Lines - Knoxville TN falls in its industry

3,020 General freight trucking, long establishments

Safer than 43% 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 #87 safest of 123 General freight trucking, long employers in Tennessee.

Central Freight Lines - Knoxville TN (32 employees, TCR 6.3) 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 Central Freight Lines - Knoxville TN
Central Freight Lines - Knoxville TN (32 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 5.6

Central Freight Lines - Knoxville TN has fewer employees than the General freight trucking, long-distance, median and a higher 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
2021 4.9 4.9 1 0 0
2020 8.4 8.4 2 0 0
2018 5.4 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484122 · TN · Knoxville

3,020 General freight trucking, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) 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 Chillicothe OH FXFE-CTH 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR DEC-ODFL 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR MCW 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Central Transport - 892 6.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE L & H Gin 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hallsdale-Powell Utility District (Operations Building) 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Harvest Construction Company LLC 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Clinard Civil Contracting 32 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 Winona Heating & Ventilating 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Hospice of Anderson 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Streetsboro Division 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Main Office - 01 6.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE NAPA Stevens Point Main Counter 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Police & Animal Control 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amity Die and Stamping Company 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE CN - Somers Point 32 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: 2021, 2020, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.