Auto salvage yards (i.e., retailing used auto parts) · Tennessee

Knox Auto Parts, Knoxville

Knoxville, TN · ~72 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
18.6
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Knox Auto Parts, Knoxville runs at 546% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Auto salvage yards (i.e., retailing used auto parts) workplace, earning a grade F.

Knox Auto Parts, Knoxville: 18.6 TCR = 546% of Auto salvage yards (i.e., retailing used auto parts) BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Knox Auto Parts, Knoxville safety composite

Knox Auto Parts, Knoxville scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 1%), 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

13/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 18.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
F 16.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

−3.6

2023→2024

Knox Auto Parts, Knoxville injury rate improved

Knox Auto Parts, Knoxville's TCR fell 3.6 from 20.4 in 2023 to 16.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 20.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.9× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=20.4 · 2024=16.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 441310 · Knoxville, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 18.6 · 546% of ind

  • DART 16.7 DART
  • RANK #30/30
  • PHOTO Diversity Vuteq, LLC
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 19 inj
  • SIZE ~72 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Diversity Vuteq, LLC (0.3 TCR gap)

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Knox Auto Parts, Knoxville in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Knox Auto Parts, Knoxville averages 18.6 TCR (546% of the Auto salvage yards (i.e., retailing used auto parts) BLS benchmark).

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

Knox Auto Parts, Knoxville TCR series: 2023=20.4 · 2024=16.7 · BLS 3.4

Where Knox Auto Parts, Knoxville falls in its industry

1,258 Auto salvage yards (i.e., reta establishments

Safer than 1% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #30 safest of 30 Auto salvage yards (i.e., reta employers in Tennessee.

Knox Auto Parts, Knoxville (72 employees, TCR 18.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Knox Auto Parts, Knoxville
Knox Auto Parts, Knoxville (72 employees, TCR 18.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Knox Auto Parts, Knoxville has more employees than the Auto salvage yards (i.e., retailing used median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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 16.7 16.7 8 0 0
2023 20.4 18.5 11 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

441310 · TN · Knoxville

1,258 Auto salvage yards (i.e., retailing used auto parts) 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 Diversity Vuteq, LLC 18.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR PBY FL Ocala 18.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bay Auto Parts Inc 19.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lentini Auto Salvage 17.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Middle Tennessee Electric (Wilson County Office) 72 FTE
STATE-SIZE Greater Dickson Gas Authority 72 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tennessee 72 FTE
STATE-SIZE Concrete Systems Company, LLC 72 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 Symphony at Olmstead Falls 18.6 TCR
NAT-TCR McCoys Building Supply-Longview 18.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Sussex Construction Inc 18.6 TCR
NAT-TCR McCoys Building Supply-Belton 18.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Progressive Care Center 72 FTE
NAT-SIZE Norwich Pec 72 FTE
NAT-SIZE Standard Press Inc. 72 FTE
NAT-SIZE California Mission Inn 72 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.