Motor freight carrier, general,long-distance, truckload(TL) · Tennessee

Kingsport TRI 1

Kingsport, TN · ~40 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kingsport TRI 1 runs at 107% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Motor freight carrier, general,long-distance, truckload(TL) workplace, earning a grade C.

Kingsport TRI 1: 4.8 TCR = 107% of Motor freight carrier, general,long-distance, truckload(TL) BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kingsport TRI 1 safety composite

Kingsport TRI 1 scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 56% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 27%), 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

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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 TRI 1: 4.6 → 5.0 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 5.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.35× in 2017

Kingsport TRI 1's TCR rose 0.4 from 4.6 in 2016 to 5.0 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 0.35× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484121 · Kingsport, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 4.8 · 107% of ind

  • DART 1.7 DART
  • RANK #100/128
  • PHOTO Perfect Transportation
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~40 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Perfect Transportation (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kingsport TRI 1 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kingsport TRI 1 averages 4.8 TCR (107% of the Motor freight carrier, general,long-distance, truckload(TL) BLS benchmark).

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

Kingsport TRI 1 TCR series: 2016=4.6 · 2017=5 · BLS 4.5

Where Kingsport TRI 1 falls in its industry

3,252 Motor freight carrier, g establishments

Safer than 27% 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 #100 safest of 128 Motor freight carrier, g employers in Tennessee.

Kingsport TRI 1 (40 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Kingsport TRI 1
Kingsport TRI 1 (40 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Kingsport TRI 1 has fewer employees than the Motor freight carrier, general,lon median and a higher 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
2017 5.0 1.7 3 0 0
2016 4.6 4.6 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484121 · TN · Kingsport

3,252 Motor freight carrier, general,long-distance, truckload(TL) 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 Perfect Transportation 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6223-226 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR TX-Seguin-CMC 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR High Transit LLC. 4.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Moseley Bros. 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2022 Milan Public Utilities 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Milan Department of Public Utilities 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE MEC NEWLAND BRANCH 40 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 Response Team 1 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Excelsior Springs Nursing and Rehab LLC 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Giant Food Stores 6244 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR MillerCoors - Golden Malting 4.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Land Jet Inc 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE N and R of Odessa LLC 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE RailWorks Transit 63rd Street 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE 5029 St. Joseph Hospital 40 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.