Sheriffs' offices (except court functions only) · Tennessee

Knox County Sheriff

Knoxville, TN · ~1,009 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.4
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Knox County Sheriff runs at 168% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Sheriffs' offices (except court functions only) workplace, earning a grade D.

Knox County Sheriff: 5.4 TCR = 168% of Sheriffs' offices (except court functions only) BLS 3.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Knox County Sheriff safety composite

Knox County Sheriff scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 78% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 45%), 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).

C

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 5.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% of industry peers

DART rate
D 4.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% 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 County Sheriff: 3.9 → 5.4 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 7.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.88× in 2021

Knox County Sheriff's TCR rose 1.5 from 3.9 in 2016 to 5.4 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 7.6 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.88× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922120 · Knoxville, TN ABOVE-IND · LARGE

Grade D · TCR 5.4 · 168% of ind

  • DART 4.7 DART
  • RANK #1/9
  • PHOTO City of Fairfax Poli…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 265 inj
  • SIZE ~1,009 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: City of Fairfax Police Department (0.0 TCR gap)

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Knox County Sheriff in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Knox County Sheriff averages 5.4 TCR (168% of the Sheriffs' offices (except court functions only) BLS benchmark).

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

Knox County Sheriff TCR series: 2016=3.9 · 2018=5.2 · 2019=4.8 · 2020=7.6 · 2021=5.4 · BLS 3.2

Where Knox County Sheriff falls in its industry

716 Sheriffs' offices (except cour establishments

Safer than 78% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 9 Sheriffs' offices (except cour employers in Tennessee.

Knox County Sheriff (1,009 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 9.5 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 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Knox County Sheriff
Knox County Sheriff (1,009 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 9.5

Knox County Sheriff has more employees than the Sheriffs' offices (except court function median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 9.5. 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
2021 5.4 4.7 48 16 0
2020 7.6 6.4 60 36 0
2019 4.8 3.2 52 0 0
2018 5.2 3.8 60 3 0
2016 3.9 2.7 45 4 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922120 · TN · Knoxville

716 Sheriffs' offices (except court functions only) 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 City of Fairfax Police Department 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR LVMPD - DSD - Clark County Detention Center 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Davis County Sheriffs and Corrections Complex 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Police Department 5.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE SVP Worldwide 1,010 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tennova Healthcare-Cleveland 1,008 FTE
STATE-SIZE LG Electronics 1,012 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tri-Star Skyline Medical Center 1,012 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 Ben Mynatt Family of Dealerships 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 42351b - Wyandanch Dc 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 4818-SOGR 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Afa Nj Branch 5.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Mercy Imaging - South River Clinic 1,009 FTE
NAT-SIZE Parsec Hobart 1,009 FTE
NAT-SIZE Iowa 80 Group 1,009 FTE
NAT-SIZE OACSD 1,009 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2016. 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.