Specialized Freight (except Used Goods) Trucking, Long-Distance · Tennessee

Knox - 530

Athens, TN · ~39 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.1
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Knox - 530 runs at 225% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Specialized Freight (except Used Goods) Trucking, Long-Distance workplace, earning a grade F.

Knox - 530: 10.1 TCR = 225% of Specialized Freight (except Used Goods) Trucking, Long-Distance BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Knox - 530 safety composite

Knox - 530 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 6%), 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

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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

Knox - 530: 9.5 → 10.7 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 10.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.64× in 2023

Knox - 530's TCR rose 1.2 from 9.5 in 2022 to 10.7 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0.64× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484230 · Athens, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.1 · 225% of ind

  • DART 6.4 DART
  • RANK #37/37
  • PHOTO Wheeler Trucking
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~39 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Wheeler Trucking (0.0 TCR gap)

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Knox - 530 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Knox - 530 averages 10.1 TCR (225% of the Specialized Freight (except Used Goods) Trucking, Long-Distance BLS benchmark).

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

Knox - 530 TCR series: 2022=9.5 · 2023=10.7 · BLS 4.5

Where Knox - 530 falls in its industry

1,026 Specialized Freight (except Us establishments

Safer than 6% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #37 safest of 37 Specialized Freight (except Us employers in Tennessee.

Knox - 530 (39 employees, TCR 10.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 3.2 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Knox - 530
Knox - 530 (39 employees, TCR 10.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Knox - 530 has fewer employees than the Specialized Freight (except Used Goods) median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.2. 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
2023 10.7 6.4 5 0 0
2022 9.5 3.8 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484230 · TN · Athens

1,026 Specialized Freight (except Used Goods) Trucking, Long-Distance employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 77 employers in Athens, 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 Wheeler Trucking 10.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR T129/629 10.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR COLL - 550 10.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR T122 10.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Crain Construction, Inc. 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE DEKALB - WARREN CO - CNT011 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Giles Co. Hwy Dept 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Norris & Son, Inc. 39 FTE
CITY-NEAR DENSO Manufacturing Athens Tennessee, INC 1,659 FTE
CITY-NEAR DENSO Manufacturing Athens, TN INC 1,638 FTE
CITY-NEAR Starr Regional Medical Center 603 FTE
CITY-NEAR Adient Athens 540 FTE
NAT-TCR Dallas East 10.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Yinlun TDI LLC 10.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Stop & Shop 2579 10.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Gavilon Grain - Browns West, IL 10.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE ECCO Midwest, Inc. 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Golf Course 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Golf Glendale 1630 W. 2100 S. 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Memorial Hermann Cypress 39 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: 2023, 2022. 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.