Medical Transport · Tennessee

Knox Ambulance Operations

Knoxville, TN · ~234 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
15.4
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Knox Ambulance Operations runs at 404% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Medical Transport workplace, earning a grade F.

Knox Ambulance Operations: 15.4 TCR = 404% of Medical Transport BLS 3.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Knox Ambulance Operations safety composite

Knox Ambulance Operations scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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).

F

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 15.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% of industry peers

DART rate
F 11.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Knox Ambulance Operations: 12.3 → 18.5 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 18.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.74× in 2020

Knox Ambulance Operations's TCR rose 6.2 from 12.3 in 2019 to 18.5 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 0.74× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 621910 · Knoxville, TN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 15.4 · 404% of ind

  • DART 11.4 DART
  • RANK #22/28
  • PHOTO Volkswagen Group of …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 39 inj
  • SIZE ~234 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Volkswagen Group of America Operations (0.0 TCR gap)

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Knox Ambulance Operations in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Knox Ambulance Operations averages 15.4 TCR (404% of the Medical Transport BLS benchmark).

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

Knox Ambulance Operations TCR series: 2019=12.3 · 2020=18.5 · BLS 3.8

Where Knox Ambulance Operations falls in its industry

976 Medical Transport establishments

Safer than 17% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 8.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #22 safest of 28 Medical Transport employers in Tennessee.

Knox Ambulance Operations (234 employees, TCR 15.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 8.3 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 0200400600 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Knox Ambulance Operations
Knox Ambulance Operations (234 employees, TCR 15.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 8.3

Knox Ambulance Operations has more employees than the Medical Transport median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 8.3. 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
2020 18.5 11.4 20 14 0
2019 12.3 2.9 19 6 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

621910 · TN · Knoxville

976 Medical Transport 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 Volkswagen Group of America Operations 15.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1012-Union EMS 15.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Abilene TX Operations 15.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR EHP - Monroe 15.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Southern Site Contractors 234 FTE
STATE-SIZE PMC Biogenix 234 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tate Ornamental Inc. 234 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 738 234 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 Highland Springs Hospital 15.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Newark Care and Rehabilitation 15.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Reilly Plating Co. 15.4 TCR
NAT-TCR ReinCoat, LLC 15.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE 49471 - Orange County Zone 234 FTE
NAT-SIZE My Auto Store Building J 234 FTE
NAT-SIZE Orlando - MB 234 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4073 Lancaster Rehab Hospital 234 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: 2020, 2019. 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.