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

Knott's Wholesale Foods

Name: Knott's Wholesale Foods Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Paris, TN · ~27 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

D
Poor Safety Record: 7.7
Avg TCR: 4.1
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Knott's Wholesale Foods runs at 188% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Food, prepared, perishable, packaged for individual resale workplace, earning a grade D.

Knott's Wholesale Foods: 7.7 TCR = 188% of Food, prepared, perishable, packaged for individual resale BLS 4.1 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Knott's Wholesale Foods safety composite

Knott's Wholesale Foods scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 17%), 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).

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 7.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers
DART rate: F 7.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.6

2023→2024

Knott's Wholesale Foods injury rate improved

Knott's Wholesale Foods's TCR fell 0.6 from 8.0 in 2023 to 7.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 8.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.96× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=8.0 · 2024=7.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311991 · Paris, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 7.7 · 188% of ind

DART 7.4 DART
RANK #5/6
PHOTO Taylor Farms Artesian
BOOK 2y book
INJ 4 inj
SIZE ~27 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Taylor Farms Artesian (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Knott's Wholesale Foods averages 7.7 TCR (188% of the Food, prepared, perishable, packaged for individual resale BLS benchmark).

Knott's Wholesale Foods TCR series: 2023=8 · 2024=7.4 · BLS 4.1

Where Knott's Wholesale Foods falls in its industry

376 Food, prepared, perishable, pa establishments

Safer than 28% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

Grade D

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 6 Food, prepared, perishable, pa employers in Tennessee.

Knott's Wholesale Foods (27 employees, TCR 7.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 179 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Knott's Wholesale Foods has fewer employees than the Food, prepared, perishable, packaged for median and a higher 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
2024	7.4	7.4	2	0	0
2023	8.0	4.0	2	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	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Taylor Farms Artesian	CHICAGO, IL	7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Red Monkey Foods, Inc- SF Salt	SPRINGFIELD, MO	7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Home Chef - Bedford Park	CHICAGO, IL	7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Nanak Foods, Inc.	BELLINGHAM, WA	7.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Montgomery County Power Station	WILLIS	27 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Precision Millwrights & Consultants, Inc.	SEVIERVILLE	27 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Innovative Millwright Service	GREENEVILLE	27 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Cumberland Valley Constructors, Inc.	NASHVILLE	27 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Henry Co Medical Center	Paris	709 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Paris Facility	Paris	569 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Paris Plant	Paris	562 FTE
CITY-NEAR	WM 177	Paris	347 FTE
NAT-TCR	Wabash Moreno Valley	Moreno Valley, CA	7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Mulehead Growers LLC	Sonoma, CA	7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Njnwk - Newark	Newark, NJ	7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	30065 Capstone AGNE NH	Manchester, NH	7.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE	ICI Metals, Inc.	Strongsville, OH	27 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Atlantic Aviation - CRQ	Carlsbad, CA	27 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Hardin Tubular Sales Inc	Victoria, TX	27 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Tapestry Senior Living Stonebay Senior Living LLC	Long Lake, MN	27 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. 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.