Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) · Tennessee

City Government - Police Protection

Knoxville, TN · ~535 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.8
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

City Government - Police Protection runs at 338% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) workplace, earning a grade F.

City Government - Police Protection: 10.8 TCR = 338% of Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) BLS 3.2 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

City Government - Police Protection safety composite

City Government - Police Protection scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 42% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 4%), 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

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 10.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% of industry peers

DART rate
D 5.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 4% 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

−1.4

2016→2024

City Government - Police Protection injury rate improved

City Government - Police Protection's TCR fell 1.4 from 13.8 in 2016 to 12.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 13.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.53× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=13.8 · 2019=7.0 · 2020=9.3 · 2021=11.5 · 2022=11.8 · 2023=9.9 · 2024=12.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922120 · Knoxville, TN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 10.8 · 338% of ind

  • DART 5.7 DART
  • RANK #6/9
  • PHOTO Town of Woodbridge P…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 282 inj
  • SIZE ~535 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Town of Woodbridge Police Department (0.0 TCR gap)

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City Government - Police Protection in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows City Government - Police Protection averages 10.8 TCR (338% of the Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) BLS benchmark).

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

City Government - Police Protection TCR series: 2016=13.8 · 2019=7 · 2020=9.3 · 2021=11.5 · 2022=11.8 · 2023=9.9 · 2024=12.4 · BLS 3.2

Where City Government - Police Protection falls in its industry

716 Police departments (except Ame establishments

Safer than 42% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 9 Police departments (except Ame employers in Tennessee.

City Government - Police Protection (535 employees, TCR 10.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 9.5 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 0200400600 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate City Government - Police Protection
City Government - Police Protection (535 employees, TCR 10.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 9.5

City Government - Police Protection has more employees than the Police departments (except American Indi median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 9.5. 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 12.4 5.7 58 3 1
2023 9.9 5.9 45 4 0
2022 11.8 9.0 30 29 0
2021 11.5 7.8 41 18 0
2020 9.3 7.2 32 15 0
2019 7.0 3.1 28 8 0
2016 13.8 8.3 48 5 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922120 · TN · Knoxville

716 Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) 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 Town of Woodbridge Police Department 10.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Police (5100) 10.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Police Department 10.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Police Department 10.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Washington County 535 FTE
STATE-SIZE McKee Foods Corporation-Sales and Marketing 536 FTE
STATE-SIZE 431 MEMPHIS 534 FTE
STATE-SIZE 8020718-Wrigley / Chattanooga TN 536 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 Trader Joe's 0461 Nichols Hills 10.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Haven Nursing Center 10.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Medilodge of Livingston 10.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Millwood, Inc. North Haven 10.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE St. Paul 535 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cornerstone Family Healthcare 535 FTE
NAT-SIZE Guilford County Department of Social Services - Greensboro 535 FTE
NAT-SIZE Acadian - Support 535 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.