Textile mills, broadwoven fabrics · Tennessee

Key Safety Systems Knoxville, TN

Knoxville, TN · ~158 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Key Safety Systems Knoxville, TN runs at 184% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Textile mills, broadwoven fabrics workplace, earning a grade D.

Key Safety Systems Knoxville, TN: 6.1 TCR = 184% of Textile mills, broadwoven fabrics BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Key Safety Systems Knoxville, TN safety composite

Key Safety Systems Knoxville, TN scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 12%), 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

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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

−1.9

2016→2019

Key Safety Systems Knoxville, TN injury rate improved

Key Safety Systems Knoxville, TN's TCR fell 1.9 from 9.0 in 2016 to 7.0 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2016 at 9.0 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.9× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=9.0 · 2017=4.2 · 2018=4.0 · 2019=7.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 313210 · Knoxville, TN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.1 · 184% of ind

  • DART 5.5 DART
  • RANK P18
  • PHOTO MIDDLEBURG YARN
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 41 inj
  • SIZE ~158 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: MIDDLEBURG YARN (0.1 TCR gap)

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Key Safety Systems Knoxville, TN in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Key Safety Systems Knoxville, TN averages 6.1 TCR (184% of the Textile mills, broadwoven fabrics BLS benchmark).

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

Key Safety Systems Knoxville, TN TCR series: 2016=9 · 2017=4.2 · 2018=4 · 2019=7 · BLS 3.3

Where Key Safety Systems Knoxville, TN falls in its industry

141 Textile mills, broadwoven fabr establishments

Safer than 18% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Key Safety Systems Knoxville, TN (158 employees, TCR 6.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 136 employees and a TCR of 2.6 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Key Safety Systems Knoxville, TN
Key Safety Systems Knoxville, TN (158 employees, TCR 6.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 136 employees and a TCR of 2.6

Key Safety Systems Knoxville, TN has more employees than the Textile mills, broadwoven fabrics median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.6. 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
2019 7.0 5.5 9 0 0
2018 4.0 3.4 7 0 0
2017 4.2 4.2 8 0 0
2016 9.0 7.4 17 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

313210 · TN · Knoxville

141 Textile mills, broadwoven fabrics 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 MIDDLEBURG YARN 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Twitchell Corp 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Twitchell Technical Products 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trion Shared Facilities 6.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Purity - Nashville 158 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bharat Forge PMT 158 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mueller Company - Cleveland TN 158 FTE
STATE-SIZE Barrett Firearms 158 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 Flambeau Columbus 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Glendale Sawmill 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Gbi - Ca 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR St. Andrews Assisted Living at Francis Plance 6.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Pure Romance, LLC 158 FTE
NAT-SIZE Town Center 158 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bogey Hills 158 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ottenweller Company, Inc. Fort Wayne Headquarters 158 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: 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.