Bars, concrete reinforcing, manufacturing · Tennessee

Gerdau- Knoxville RS

Knoxville, TN · ~52 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Gerdau- Knoxville RS runs at 229% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Bars, concrete reinforcing, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Gerdau- Knoxville RS: 7.6 TCR = 229% of Bars, concrete reinforcing, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Gerdau- Knoxville RS safety composite

Gerdau- Knoxville RS scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 24%), 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

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.61 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

−0.7

2016→2017

Gerdau- Knoxville RS injury rate improved

Gerdau- Knoxville RS's TCR fell 0.7 from 7.9 in 2016 to 7.2 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 7.9 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0.48× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=7.9 · 2017=7.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332312 · Knoxville, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.6 · 229% of ind

  • DART 3.6 DART
  • RANK #32/40
  • PHOTO Anvil Steel Corporat…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~52 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Anvil Steel Corporation (0.0 TCR gap)

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Gerdau- Knoxville RS in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Gerdau- Knoxville RS averages 7.6 TCR (229% of the Bars, concrete reinforcing, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Gerdau- Knoxville RS TCR series: 2016=7.9 · 2017=7.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Gerdau- Knoxville RS falls in its industry

1,491 Bars, concrete reinforcing, ma establishments

Safer than 24% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #32 safest of 40 Bars, concrete reinforcing, ma employers in Tennessee.

Gerdau- Knoxville RS (52 employees, TCR 7.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.6 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Gerdau- Knoxville RS
Gerdau- Knoxville RS (52 employees, TCR 7.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.6

Gerdau- Knoxville RS has fewer employees than the Bars, concrete reinforcing, manufacturin median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.6. 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
2017 7.2 3.6 3 1 0
2016 7.9 5.9 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332312 · TN · Knoxville

1,491 Bars, concrete reinforcing, manufacturing 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 Anvil Steel Corporation 7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Springs Fabrication, LLC 7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Delong's, Inc. Jefferson City 7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Metal Form Mfg 7.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Etowah Utilities 52 FTE
STATE-SIZE Powell Valley Electric Cooperative New Tazewell 52 FTE
STATE-SIZE Oak Ridge Utility District 52 FTE
STATE-SIZE TDK Construction Company 52 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 SC640 - Lexington, KY 7.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Providence (Rilin) 7.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Kearney (Nekea) 7.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Rock Island (Ilrln) 7.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Rocky Mountain Stonework, Inc. 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE N and R of Hartville LLC 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE N and R of Sikeston at Clearview Inc 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE Buckhead Meat of North Carolina 52 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: 2017, 2016. 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.