Wiring supplies merchant wholesalers · Tennessee

Kingsport

Kingsport, TN · ~243 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.2
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kingsport runs at 55% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Wiring supplies merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade B.

Kingsport: 1.2 TCR = 55% of Wiring supplies merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kingsport safety composite

Kingsport scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 77% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 31%), 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

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Kingsport: 1.6 → 3.0 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 3.0 TCR · DART/TCR 2.13× in 2024

Kingsport's TCR rose 1.4 from 1.6 in 2016 to 3.0 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2.13× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423610 · Kingsport, TN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 1.2 · 55% of ind

  • DART 2.5 DART
  • RANK #8/22
  • PHOTO Selco Products
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 25 inj
  • SIZE ~243 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Selco Products (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kingsport in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kingsport averages 1.2 TCR (55% of the Wiring supplies merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Kingsport TCR series: 2016=1.6 · 2017=0.8 · 2018=0.3 · 2019=0.8 · 2020=0.7 · 2021=2.2 · 2022=0 · 2023=1.5 · 2024=3 · BLS 2.2

Where Kingsport falls in its industry

1,190 Wiring supplies merchant whole establishments

Safer than 77% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 22 Wiring supplies merchant whole employers in Tennessee.

Kingsport (243 employees, TCR 1.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 2.4 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 050100150200250300 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Kingsport
Kingsport (243 employees, TCR 1.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 2.4

Kingsport has more employees than the Wiring supplies merchant wholesalers median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.4. 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 3.0 2.5 7 0 0
2023 1.5 1.5 3 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 2.2 2.2 1 0 0
2020 0.7 0.0 1 0 0
2019 0.8 0.0 3 0 0
2018 0.3 0.3 1 0 0
2017 0.8 0.3 3 0 0
2016 1.6 0.3 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423610 · TN · Kingsport

1,190 Wiring supplies merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 152 employers in Kingsport, 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 Selco Products 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mosebach Electric & Supply (PC2350) 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6340-VIKING-001020_US_S0201 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR US - Branch Network : 0423 1.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Clayton Homes-Appalachia 243 FTE
STATE-SIZE BHS Corrugated North America 243 FTE
STATE-SIZE Manufacturing1 243 FTE
STATE-SIZE House Hasson Hardware Company 243 FTE
CITY-NEAR Eastman Kingsport Site 7,258 FTE
CITY-NEAR Holston Valley Medical Center 1,733 FTE
CITY-NEAR Eastman Chemical Company Kinsport TN- BSL 1,206 FTE
CITY-NEAR BLUE RIDGE MEDICAL MANAGEMENT CORPORATION - VA 1,073 FTE
NAT-TCR TTI Environmental 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR OrthoNC 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR MKS Warehouse 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Staunton VA 1.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Centennial 243 FTE
NAT-SIZE Austin, TX - South Base 243 FTE
NAT-SIZE VerHalen, Inc. 243 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mosaic Beatrice 243 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 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.