DAIRY DISTRIBUTION · Tennessee

Dfa Distributing South - Knoxville Tn

Knoxville, TN · ~33 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
5.7
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Dfa Distributing South - Knoxville Tn runs at 257% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical DAIRY DISTRIBUTION workplace, earning a grade F.

Dfa Distributing South - Knoxville Tn: 5.7 TCR = 257% of DAIRY DISTRIBUTION BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dfa Distributing South - Knoxville Tn safety composite

Dfa Distributing South - Knoxville Tn scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 27%), 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 5.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Dfa Distributing South - Knoxville Tn: 4.5 → 10.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 10.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.2× in 2024

Dfa Distributing South - Knoxville Tn's TCR rose 5.6 from 4.5 in 2021 to 10.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424430 · Knoxville, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 5.7 · 257% of ind

  • DART 6.8 DART
  • RANK #9/11
  • PHOTO Hiland Dairy Foods C…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~33 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hiland Dairy Foods Company (0.0 TCR gap)

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Dfa Distributing South - Knoxville Tn in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dfa Distributing South - Knoxville Tn averages 5.7 TCR (257% of the DAIRY DISTRIBUTION BLS benchmark).

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

Dfa Distributing South - Knoxville Tn TCR series: 2021=4.5 · 2022=4.9 · 2023=3 · 2024=10.2 · BLS 2.2

Where Dfa Distributing South - Knoxville Tn falls in its industry

231 DAIRY DISTRIBUTION establishments

Safer than 51% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 11 DAIRY DISTRIBUTION employers in Tennessee.

Dfa Distributing South - Knoxville Tn (33 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 5.9 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Dfa Distributing South - Knoxville Tn
Dfa Distributing South - Knoxville Tn (33 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 5.9

Dfa Distributing South - Knoxville Tn has fewer employees than the DAIRY DISTRIBUTION median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.9. 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 10.2 6.8 3 0 0
2023 3.0 0.0 1 0 0
2022 4.9 0.0 2 0 0
2021 4.5 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424430 · TN · Knoxville

231 DAIRY DISTRIBUTION 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 Hiland Dairy Foods Company 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Industry 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR DFA DISTRIBUTING WEST - LUBBOCK TX 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR DFA DISTRIBUTING WEST - ENGLEWOOD CO 5.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hamilton County WWTA (Water & Wastewater Treatment Authority) 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE JC Curtis Construction Co., LLC 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE TDH Inc 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE ORION 33 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 Principle Toyota Hernando 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Life Care Center of Morehead 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Amazon.com Services LLC - PIT2 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Plant 2 5.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Dfa Distributing North - Lemars Ia 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nexus-FACTS Family Healing 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Legacy Wendy's-121 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Food City St. Albans 33 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. 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.