Building inspections, government · Tennessee

City of Knoxville Inspections

Knoxville, TN · ~32 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.6
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

City of Knoxville Inspections runs at 176% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Building inspections, government workplace, earning a grade D.

City of Knoxville Inspections: 5.6 TCR = 176% of Building inspections, government BLS 3.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

City of Knoxville Inspections safety composite

City of Knoxville Inspections scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 10%), 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

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% 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%).

TCR Δ

−7.5

2020→2024

City of Knoxville Inspections injury rate improved

City of Knoxville Inspections's TCR fell 7.5 from 10.5 in 2020 to 3.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 11.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.54× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=10.5 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=11.2 · 2023=3.5 · 2024=3.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 926150 · Knoxville, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.6 · 176% of ind

  • DART 3.0 DART
  • RANK P10
  • PHOTO Coconino County Esta…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~32 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Coconino County Establishment 22 - Community Devel Regulation Licensing Inspection Permits (0.3 TCR gap)

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City of Knoxville Inspections in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows City of Knoxville Inspections averages 5.6 TCR (176% of the Building inspections, government BLS benchmark).

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

City of Knoxville Inspections TCR series: 2020=10.5 · 2021=0 · 2022=11.2 · 2023=3.5 · 2024=3 · BLS 3.2

Where City of Knoxville Inspections falls in its industry

70 Building inspections, governme establishments

Safer than 10% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
City of Knoxville Inspections (32 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 1.9 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 02004006008001,000 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate City of Knoxville Inspections
City of Knoxville Inspections (32 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 1.9

City of Knoxville Inspections has fewer employees than the Building inspections, government median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.9. 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 3.0 3.0 1 0 0
2023 3.5 0.0 1 0 0
2022 11.2 7.5 3 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 10.5 3.5 2 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

926150 · TN · Knoxville

70 Building inspections, 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 Coconino County Establishment 22 - Community Devel Regulation Licensing Inspection Permits 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Department of Public Works, Bureau of Contract Administration, West Los Angeles Municipal Building 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Norfolk Regional Office 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Annex 4.6 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 Masterpiece Flower Company LLC - Merchandising (MO) 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR National Distribution Centers LLC-200 Logistics Drive 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Amick Farms, LLC MD Hatchery 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 1042 - Ellicott City 5.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Carry Transit - Keokuk 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gristedes #597 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE D'Agostino #518 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jll P&G- Mbc 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.