Bus line, local (except mixed mode) · Tennessee

City of Knoxville Bus and Other Motor Vehicle Transit Systems

Knoxville, TN · ~280 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
5.1
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

City of Knoxville Bus and Other Motor Vehicle Transit Systems runs at 113% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Bus line, local (except mixed mode) workplace, earning a grade C.

City of Knoxville Bus and Other Motor Vehicle Transit Systems: 5.1 TCR = 113% of Bus line, local (except mixed mode) BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

City of Knoxville Bus and Other Motor Vehicle Transit Systems safety composite

City of Knoxville Bus and Other Motor Vehicle Transit Systems scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 28%), 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 5.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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 of Knoxville Bus and Other Motor Vehicle Transit Systems: 0.0 → 6.5 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 8.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.17× in 2024

City of Knoxville Bus and Other Motor Vehicle Transit Systems's TCR rose 6.5 from 0.0 in 2022 to 6.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 8.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.17× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485113 · Knoxville, TN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 5.1 · 113% of ind

  • DART 6.0 DART
  • RANK #5/9
  • PHOTO 373 CONCORD
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 38 inj
  • SIZE ~280 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 373 CONCORD (0.0 TCR gap)

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City of Knoxville Bus and Other Motor Vehicle Transit Systems in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows City of Knoxville Bus and Other Motor Vehicle Transit Systems averages 5.1 TCR (113% of the Bus line, local (except mixed mode) BLS benchmark).

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

City of Knoxville Bus and Other Motor Vehicle Transit Systems TCR series: 2022=0 · 2023=8.7 · 2024=6.5 · BLS 4.5

Where City of Knoxville Bus and Other Motor Vehicle Transit Systems falls in its industry

332 Bus line, local (except mixed establishments

Safer than 52% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 9 Bus line, local (except mixed employers in Tennessee.

City of Knoxville Bus and Other Motor Vehicle Transit Systems (280 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 5.3 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate City of Knoxville Bus and Other Motor Vehicle Transit Systems
City of Knoxville Bus and Other Motor Vehicle Transit Systems (280 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 5.3

City of Knoxville Bus and Other Motor Vehicle Transit Systems has more employees than the Bus line, local (except mixed mode) median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.3. 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 6.5 6.0 19 3 0
2023 8.7 7.8 19 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485113 · TN · Knoxville

332 Bus line, local (except mixed mode) 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 373 CONCORD 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 7037 TRANSIT REGION-WHITE PLAINS NY 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2662-7012 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6091-SS022 5.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE TPM Clinton 280 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Lilly Company 280 FTE
STATE-SIZE 194 - DET Nashville 280 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 735 280 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 Harleysville Ace Hardware 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Tillamook People's Utility District 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Renaissance Glenview Suites Hotel 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Atlantic Trucking Group 5.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE US Field Services/Sales 280 FTE
NAT-SIZE 140 - Lapeer 280 FTE
NAT-SIZE 181 - Westerville 280 FTE
NAT-SIZE ESAB Hanover 280 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.