Scheduled Air Transportation · Tennessee

Delta Air Lines - TYS

Knoxville, TN · ~32 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.6
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Delta Air Lines - TYS runs at 35% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Scheduled Air Transportation workplace, earning a grade A.

Delta Air Lines - TYS: 1.6 TCR = 35% of Scheduled Air Transportation BLS 4.5 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Delta Air Lines - TYS safety composite

Delta Air Lines - TYS scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 91% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

B

80/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 88% of industry peers

DART rate
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 91% 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%).

TCR Δ

−3.1

2016→2024

Delta Air Lines - TYS injury rate improved

Delta Air Lines - TYS's TCR fell 3.1 from 3.1 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 6.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=3.1 · 2017=6.8 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=0.0 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=2.6 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 481111 · Knoxville, TN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.6 · 35% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #3/31
  • PHOTO 4795-PS-CLT-CHARLOTT…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~32 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 4795-PS-CLT-CHARLOTTE-CLT-PSAA (0.0 TCR gap)

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Delta Air Lines - TYS in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Delta Air Lines - TYS averages 1.6 TCR (35% of the Scheduled Air Transportation BLS benchmark).

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

Delta Air Lines - TYS TCR series: 2016=3.1 · 2017=6.8 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=2.6 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 4.5

Where Delta Air Lines - TYS falls in its industry

1,568 Scheduled Air Transportation establishments

Safer than 88% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 31 Scheduled Air Transportation employers in Tennessee.

Delta Air Lines - TYS (32 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 102 employees and a TCR of 6.1 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 01,0002,0003,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Delta Air Lines - TYS
Delta Air Lines - TYS (32 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 102 employees and a TCR of 6.1

Delta Air Lines - TYS has fewer employees than the Scheduled Air Transportation median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.1. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 2.6 2.6 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 6.8 6.8 2 0 0
2016 3.1 3.1 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

481111 · TN · Knoxville

1,568 Scheduled Air Transportation 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 4795-PS-CLT-CHARLOTTE-CLT-PSAA 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1004-40 GoJet ORD Flight Operations 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 14 AIR CANADA 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Delta Air Lines - CAE 1.6 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 Camelot Lf 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR McCarthy Tire Service #23 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Gowanda BTI, LLC 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Cash Construction Company 1.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Pearland Courtyard 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE North Country Chevrolte Buick Gmc 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wyler Industrial Works, Inc 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Friends of Dinosaur Ridge 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, 2019, 2018, 2017, 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.