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

Knox Auto Parts, Nashville

La Vergne, TN · ~63 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.3
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Knox Auto Parts, Nashville runs at 156% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Auto salvage yards (i.e., retailing used auto parts) workplace, earning a grade D.

Knox Auto Parts, Nashville: 5.3 TCR = 156% of Auto salvage yards (i.e., retailing used auto parts) BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Knox Auto Parts, Nashville safety composite

Knox Auto Parts, Nashville scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 23%), 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).

D

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Knox Auto Parts, Nashville: 3.4 → 7.3 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 7.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.03× in 2024

Knox Auto Parts, Nashville's TCR rose 3.9 from 3.4 in 2023 to 7.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.03× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 441310 · La Vergne, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.3 · 156% of ind

  • DART 5.5 DART
  • RANK #23/30
  • PHOTO 000096-DENVER CO
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~63 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 000096-DENVER CO (0.0 TCR gap)

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Knox Auto Parts, Nashville in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Knox Auto Parts, Nashville averages 5.3 TCR (156% 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, Nashville TCR series: 2023=3.4 · 2024=7.3 · BLS 3.4

Where Knox Auto Parts, Nashville falls in its industry

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

Safer than 40% 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 #23 safest of 30 Auto salvage yards (i.e., reta employers in Tennessee.

Knox Auto Parts, Nashville (63 employees, TCR 5.3) 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, Nashville
Knox Auto Parts, Nashville (63 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Knox Auto Parts, Nashville 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 7.3 5.5 4 0 0
2023 3.4 3.4 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

441310 · TN · La Vergne

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 · 93 employers in La Vergne, 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 000096-DENVER CO 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 1218 - Indiana 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Midway Auto Parts - Beggs 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 5317 5.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE ROSE CONSTRUCTION, INC. 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE Neuhoff 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE American Constructors, Inc. 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE CHERRY PAINTING COMPANY, INC dba CHERRY COATINGS NASHVILLE 63 FTE
CITY-NEAR SVP Worldwide 1,010 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - BNA9 773 FTE
CITY-NEAR Quanta Manufacturing Nashville LLC 678 FTE
CITY-NEAR Saks.com LLC 666 FTE
NAT-TCR Rogers 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Red Bud Regional Hospital 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR California Cascade Building Materials Inc 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Berman Commons 5.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Property Prep Services, Inc. 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE 084 Taylor MI 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE Otis Elevator Company-Jacksonville 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE USA Ontario 3450 E Airport Dr 63 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.