Medical Transport · Tennessee

Knox County District 1 FireOperations

Knoxville, TN · ~202 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
15.5
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Knox County District 1 FireOperations runs at 408% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Medical Transport workplace, earning a grade F.

Knox County District 1 FireOperations: 15.5 TCR = 408% of Medical Transport BLS 3.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Knox County District 1 FireOperations safety composite

Knox County District 1 FireOperations scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 16%), 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

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 15.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers

DART rate
F 11.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% 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 County District 1 FireOperations: 8.4 → 22.6 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 22.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.77× in 2020

Knox County District 1 FireOperations's TCR rose 14.2 from 8.4 in 2019 to 22.6 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 0.77× 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 15.5 · 408% of ind

  • DART 11.9 DART
  • RANK #24/28
  • PHOTO Thurston County Ope…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 33 inj
  • SIZE ~202 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Thurston County Operations (0.0 TCR gap)

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Knox County District 1 FireOperations in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Knox County District 1 FireOperations averages 15.5 TCR (408% of the Medical Transport BLS benchmark).

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

Knox County District 1 FireOperations TCR series: 2019=8.4 · 2020=22.6 · BLS 3.8

Where Knox County District 1 FireOperations falls in its industry

976 Medical Transport establishments

Safer than 16% 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 #24 safest of 28 Medical Transport employers in Tennessee.

Knox County District 1 FireOperations (202 employees, TCR 15.5) 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 County District 1 FireOperations
Knox County District 1 FireOperations (202 employees, TCR 15.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 8.3

Knox County District 1 FireOperations 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 22.6 11.9 14 41 0
2019 8.4 6.8 19 2 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 Thurston County Operations 15.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Meda Care Ambulance Service LLC 15.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR South Texas Emergency Care Foundation, Inc. 15.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sequoia Safety Council Inc 15.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Williams Food Works and Distribution 202 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rohm and Haas Chemicals LLC 202 FTE
STATE-SIZE Inteplast Films Corp 202 FTE
STATE-SIZE NIC Global-TN 202 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 Davis and Elkins College 15.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Ridgewood Center 15.5 TCR
NAT-TCR ISF-Eliot 15.5 TCR
NAT-TCR National Fuel Distribution Niagara Falls Servicenter 15.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE FI - Casa Mora, LLC 202 FTE
NAT-SIZE Turner at Ascend Performance Materials Cantonment FL 202 FTE
NAT-SIZE TBEI 202 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6788 St Mary Rehab Hosp 202 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.