Construction management, water and sewage treatment plant · Tennessee

First Utility District of Knox County

Knoxville, TN · ~111 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

First Utility District of Knox County runs at 86% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Construction management, water and sewage treatment plant workplace, earning a grade C.

First Utility District of Knox County: 2.4 TCR = 86% of Construction management, water and sewage treatment plant BLS 2.8 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

First Utility District of Knox County safety composite

First Utility District of Knox County scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 59% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 32%), 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

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

−1.9

2021→2024

First Utility District of Knox County injury rate improved

First Utility District of Knox County's TCR fell 1.9 from 4.3 in 2021 to 2.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 4.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=4.3 · 2022=2.1 · 2023=0.8 · 2024=2.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237110 · Knoxville, TN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.4 · 86% of ind

  • DART 2.4 DART
  • RANK #13/36
  • PHOTO DiPonio Contracting …
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~111 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: DiPonio Contracting LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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First Utility District of Knox County in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows First Utility District of Knox County averages 2.4 TCR (86% of the Construction management, water and sewage treatment plant BLS benchmark).

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

First Utility District of Knox County TCR series: 2021=4.3 · 2022=2.1 · 2023=0.8 · 2024=2.4 · BLS 2.8

Where First Utility District of Knox County falls in its industry

1,614 Construction management, water establishments

Safer than 59% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 36 Construction management, water employers in Tennessee.

First Utility District of Knox County (111 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate First Utility District of Knox County
First Utility District of Knox County (111 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 3.0

First Utility District of Knox County has more employees than the Construction management, water and sewag 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 Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2024 2.4 2.4 3 0 0
2023 0.8 0.8 1 0 0
2022 2.1 2.1 2 0 0
2021 4.3 2.6 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237110 · TN · Knoxville

1,614 Construction management, water and sewage treatment plant 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 DiPonio Contracting LLC 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Glenbrook 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Maverick Underground Inc 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trac II, Inc. 2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hatchery (Pikeville) 111 FTE
STATE-SIZE Evers Construction Company, Inc 111 FTE
STATE-SIZE McMurry Construction 111 FTE
STATE-SIZE S&W Contracting 111 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 S05917 - WI Beloit 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR E & B PAVING - Clarksville 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Mediacom's Valdosta, GA 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Easton Utilities 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE EFP, LLC - Elkhart 111 FTE
NAT-SIZE Citrus Health and Rehab 111 FTE
NAT-SIZE S10226 - Detroit Metro 111 FTE
NAT-SIZE E & B PAVING LLC - Fort Wayne 111 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.