Food, prepared, perishable, packaged for individual resale · Tennessee

Knotts Wholesale Foods

Paris, TN · ~26 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.7
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Knotts Wholesale Foods runs at 42% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Food, prepared, perishable, packaged for individual resale workplace, earning a grade A.

Knotts Wholesale Foods: 1.7 TCR = 42% of Food, prepared, perishable, packaged for individual resale BLS 4.1 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Knotts Wholesale Foods safety composite

Knotts Wholesale Foods scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 94% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

B

80/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% of industry peers

DART rate
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 94% 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%).

Knotts Wholesale Foods held a steady TCR band

Knotts Wholesale Foods's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2018 to 0.0 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2020 at 5.2 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=0.0 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=5.2 · 2021=3.5 · 2022=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311991 · Paris, TN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.7 · 42% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/6
  • PHOTO Hearthside Food Solu…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~26 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hearthside Food Solutions LLC - BB (0.0 TCR gap)

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Knotts Wholesale Foods in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Knotts Wholesale Foods averages 1.7 TCR (42% of the Food, prepared, perishable, packaged for individual resale BLS benchmark).

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

Knotts Wholesale Foods TCR series: 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=5.2 · 2021=3.5 · 2022=0 · BLS 4.1

Where Knotts Wholesale Foods falls in its industry

376 Food, prepared, perishable, pa establishments

Safer than 86% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 6 Food, prepared, perishable, pa employers in Tennessee.

Knotts Wholesale Foods (26 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 179 employees and a TCR of 5.1 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 02004006008001,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Knotts Wholesale Foods
Knotts Wholesale Foods (26 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 179 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Knotts Wholesale Foods has fewer employees than the Food, prepared, perishable, packaged for median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.1. 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
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 3.5 3.5 1 0 0
2020 5.2 0.0 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311991 · TN · Paris

376 Food, prepared, perishable, packaged for individual resale employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 43 employers in Paris, 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 Hearthside Food Solutions LLC - BB 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR CF Houston LLC. 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR E A Sween Company-Hodges 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR DADO 1 1.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Buy Sod - Nashville 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tobacco Pride 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tennessee Farms 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE CEMC-Springfield 26 FTE
CITY-NEAR Henry Co Medical Center 709 FTE
CITY-NEAR Paris Facility 569 FTE
CITY-NEAR Paris Plant 562 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 177 347 FTE
NAT-TCR USE Karnes County Disposal, LLC 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Yarde Metals, New Jersey 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Richards Homewares, Inc. 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Ryder Transportation Services, Pompano Beach 1.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Fresh Ideas Management- Judson 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fresh Ideas Management- William Woods University 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE TAC Air - SHV 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dc - Visalia, Ca 26 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.