General freight trucking, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) · Tennessee

KNO

Knoxville, TN · ~92 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.2
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

KNO runs at 160% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical General freight trucking, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) workplace, earning a grade D.

KNO: 7.2 TCR = 160% of General freight trucking, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) BLS 4.5 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

KNO safety composite

KNO scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 15%), 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

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

KNO: 5.9 → 10.0 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 12.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.14× in 2024

KNO's TCR rose 4.1 from 5.9 in 2016 to 10.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 12.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.14× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484122 · Knoxville, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 7.2 · 160% of ind

  • DART 8.2 DART
  • RANK #100/123
  • PHOTO Hartford CT FXFE-HFD
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 68 inj
  • SIZE ~92 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hartford CT FXFE-HFD (0.0 TCR gap)

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KNO in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows KNO averages 7.2 TCR (160% of the General freight trucking, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) BLS benchmark).

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

KNO TCR series: 2016=5.9 · 2017=9.1 · 2018=3.4 · 2019=5.6 · 2020=12.8 · 2021=6.9 · 2022=8.1 · 2023=2.8 · 2024=10 · BLS 4.5

Where KNO falls in its industry

3,020 General freight trucking, long establishments

Safer than 33% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

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 123 General freight trucking, long employers in Tennessee.

KNO (92 employees, TCR 7.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 5.6 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 KNO
KNO (92 employees, TCR 7.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 5.6

KNO has more employees than the General freight trucking, long-distance, median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.6. 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
2024 10.0 8.2 11 0 0
2023 2.8 2.8 3 0 0
2022 8.1 7.1 8 0 0
2021 6.9 6.9 7 0 0
2020 12.8 8.9 13 0 0
2019 5.6 5.6 6 0 0
2018 3.4 2.6 4 0 0
2017 9.1 7.3 10 0 0
2016 5.9 5.9 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484122 · TN · Knoxville

3,020 General freight trucking, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) 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 Hartford CT FXFE-HFD 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kankakee IL FXFE-KKE 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR GRB 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR R+L Carriers - MEL 7.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE B&W Quality Growers - TN 92 FTE
STATE-SIZE King Industries Inc. 92 FTE
STATE-SIZE Safway Services, LLC - Nashville 92 FTE
STATE-SIZE Valk Industries Inc. 92 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 Rueters Carroll 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Beverly Hills #513 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 229 Bennett Road Operating Company, LLC 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Fisher Auto Parts - WOOSTER 7.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Georgetown 92 FTE
NAT-SIZE LP Louisville Quinn Drive, LLC-- Rockford 92 FTE
NAT-SIZE Classie Growers 92 FTE
NAT-SIZE Showcase 92 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.