Acetylene manufacturing · Tennessee

HGI Knoxville

Knoxville, TN · ~113 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

HGI Knoxville runs at 117% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Acetylene manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

HGI Knoxville: 3.9 TCR = 117% of Acetylene manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

HGI Knoxville safety composite

HGI Knoxville scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 73% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 30%), 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

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% 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

−1.7

2017→2024

HGI Knoxville injury rate improved

HGI Knoxville's TCR fell 1.7 from 3.1 in 2017 to 1.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 6.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=3.1 · 2018=6.3 · 2023=4.6 · 2024=1.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325120 · Knoxville, TN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.9 · 117% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #6/9
  • PHOTO Linde - Aiken
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~113 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Linde - Aiken (0.1 TCR gap)

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HGI Knoxville in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows HGI Knoxville averages 3.9 TCR (117% of the Acetylene manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

HGI Knoxville TCR series: 2017=3.1 · 2018=6.3 · 2023=4.6 · 2024=1.4 · BLS 3.3

Where HGI Knoxville falls in its industry

295 Acetylene manufacturing establishments

Safer than 30% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 9 Acetylene manufacturing employers in Tennessee.

HGI Knoxville (113 employees, TCR 3.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 1.9 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 050100150 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate HGI Knoxville
HGI Knoxville (113 employees, TCR 3.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 1.9

HGI Knoxville has more employees than the Acetylene manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.9. 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 1.4 0.0 2 0 0
2023 4.6 2.3 6 0 0
2018 6.3 3.1 5 1 0
2017 3.1 1.1 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325120 · TN · Knoxville

295 Acetylene 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 Linde - Aiken 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kittery 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR HGI Decatur 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Linde - Gonzales 4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE J Cumby Construction Inc. 113 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mid South Flat Works LLC 113 FTE
STATE-SIZE Allstar Fire Protection Inc 113 FTE
STATE-SIZE Brown Bros., Inc. 113 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 Great Lakes Tv Seal Inc. 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR schoenmann produce company 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Indy Steel Erectors, Inc. 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Redlands Plant #3 3.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hartmann Electric Company, Inc. 113 FTE
NAT-SIZE Billings, MT 113 FTE
NAT-SIZE 340 South Liberty St. 113 FTE
NAT-SIZE MN Office 113 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, 2018, 2017. 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.