Trucking, general freight, long-distance, truckload (TL) · Tennessee

Colonial Freight Systems, Inc. Knoxville Shop

Name: Colonial Freight Systems, Inc. Knoxville Shop Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Knoxville, TN · ~17 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

B
Good Safety Record: 2.6
Avg TCR: 4.5
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Colonial Freight Systems, Inc. Knoxville Shop runs at 58% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Trucking, general freight, long-distance, truckload (TL) workplace, earning a grade B.

Colonial Freight Systems, Inc. Knoxville Shop: 2.6 TCR = 58% of Trucking, general freight, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Colonial Freight Systems, Inc. Knoxville Shop safety composite

Colonial Freight Systems, Inc. Knoxville Shop scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 58% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 8%), 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).

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 2.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% of industry peers
DART rate: F 7.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers
Fatalities: D 0

Safer than 53% 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

Colonial Freight Systems, Inc. Knoxville Shop: 0.0 → 7.8 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 7.8 TCR · DART/TCR 3× in 2021

Colonial Freight Systems, Inc. Knoxville Shop's TCR rose 7.8 from 0.0 in 2019 to 7.8 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 3× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484121 · Knoxville, TN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.6 · 58% of ind

DART 7.8 DART
RANK #52/128
PHOTO Bison Transport USA …
BOOK 3y book
INJ 0 inj
SIZE ~17 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bison Transport USA - Bangor (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Colonial Freight Systems, Inc. Knoxville Shop averages 2.6 TCR (58% of the Trucking, general freight, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS benchmark).

Colonial Freight Systems, Inc. Knoxville Shop TCR series: 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=7.8 · BLS 4.5

Where Colonial Freight Systems, Inc. Knoxville Shop falls in its industry

3,252 Trucking, general freight, lon establishments

Safer than 58% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

Grade B

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #52 safest of 128 Trucking, general freight, lon employers in Tennessee.

Colonial Freight Systems, Inc. Knoxville Shop (17 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Colonial Freight Systems, Inc. Knoxville Shop has fewer employees than the Trucking, general freight, long-distance median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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	Illnesses
2021	7.8	7.8	1
2020	0.0	0.0	0
2019	0.0	0.0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484121 · TN · Knoxville

3,252 Trucking, general freight, long-distance, truckload (TL) 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. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Bison Transport USA - Bangor	BANGOR, ME	2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	WM 6826	RED BLUFF, CA	2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Stacked Logistics, Inc	PINE BLUFF, AR	2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	IL Terminal - Patriot Transport Inc.	CAROL STREAM, IL	2.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE	JJ TN Warehouse	WHITE PINE	17 FTE
STATE-SIZE	377 RIVERSIDE DR FRANKLIN TN	FRANKLIN	17 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Champion Window Company of Memphis, LLC	MEMPHIS	17 FTE
STATE-SIZE	VENTURE CONSTRUCTION COMPANY - MEMPHIS	BARTLETT	17 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Cellular Sales Services Group LLC	Knoxville	6,387 FTE
CITY-NEAR	University Health System, Inc	Knoxville	5,215 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Functional Pathways of TN LLC	Knoxville	2,258 FTE
CITY-NEAR	HES Facilities Services K-12	Knoxville	2,157 FTE
NAT-TCR	Community Coffee - Atlanta Sales	Norcross, GA	2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Wilson - F033	Wilson, NC	2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Main	Mckinney, TX	2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	MED	Media, PA	2.6 TCR

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, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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