General services departments, government · Tennessee

City Government - General Government

Knoxville, TN · ~563 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.2
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

City Government - General Government runs at 319% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical General services departments, government workplace, earning a grade F.

City Government - General Government: 10.2 TCR = 319% of General services departments, government BLS 3.2 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

City Government - General Government safety composite

City Government - General Government scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 17%), 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

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% 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%).

Rising injury rate

City Government - General Government: 4.3 → 10.6 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 17.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.53× in 2024

City Government - General Government's TCR rose 6.2 from 4.3 in 2016 to 10.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 17.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.53× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 921190 · Knoxville, TN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 10.2 · 319% of ind

  • DART 5.4 DART
  • RANK #16/19
  • PHOTO City of Turlock
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 252 inj
  • SIZE ~563 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: City of Turlock (0.0 TCR gap)

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City Government - General Government in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows City Government - General Government averages 10.2 TCR (319% of the General services departments, government BLS benchmark).

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

City Government - General Government TCR series: 2016=4.3 · 2019=9.2 · 2020=7.9 · 2021=10.1 · 2022=17.9 · 2023=11.5 · 2024=10.6 · BLS 3.2

Where City Government - General Government falls in its industry

1,496 General services departments, establishments

Safer than 17% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #16 safest of 19 General services departments, employers in Tennessee.

City Government - General Government (563 employees, TCR 10.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 93 employees and a TCR of 4.6 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 0200400600800 010203040 Average employees Total Case Rate City Government - General Government
City Government - General Government (563 employees, TCR 10.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 93 employees and a TCR of 4.6

City Government - General Government has more employees than the General services departments, government median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.6. 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
2024 10.6 5.4 43 6 0
2023 11.5 8.5 48 6 0
2022 17.9 15.3 37 45 0
2021 10.1 7.8 32 15 0
2020 7.9 4.5 31 6 0
2019 9.2 5.0 38 8 0
2016 4.3 2.7 23 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

921190 · TN · Knoxville

1,496 General services departments, government 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 City of Turlock 10.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mower County - Public Works 10.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of El Centro 10.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Noblesville 10.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Paris Plant 562 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gestamp Chattanooga, LLC 562 FTE
STATE-SIZE KNOXVILLE_1441272 564 FTE
STATE-SIZE Charles Blalock & Sons, Inc. 561 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 Select Specialty Hospital - Orlando North 10.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Colony Tire - Store 08 retread 10.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Pecos Store 10.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Pioneer College Caterers, Inc. - Unit 008/Asbury University 10.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Prairie Du Chien 563 FTE
NAT-SIZE Great Plains Synfuels Plant 563 FTE
NAT-SIZE TLC Plumbing & Utility 563 FTE
NAT-SIZE Distribution Center - Greencastle 563 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, 2020, 2019, 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.