Home centers, building materials · Tennessee

knox1926

Knoxville, TN · ~50 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
14.6
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

knox1926 runs at 430% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Home centers, building materials workplace, earning a grade F.

knox1926: 14.6 TCR = 430% of Home centers, building materials BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

knox1926 safety composite

knox1926 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

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 14.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% 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

knox1926: 11.0 → 13.3 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 18.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.3× in 2021

knox1926's TCR rose 2.3 from 11.0 in 2017 to 13.3 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2018 at 18.5 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.3× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444110 · Knoxville, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 14.6 · 430% of ind

  • DART 4.4 DART
  • RANK #151/151
  • PHOTO McCoys Building Supp…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 27 inj
  • SIZE ~50 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: McCoys Building Supply- Baytown (0.1 TCR gap)

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knox1926 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows knox1926 averages 14.6 TCR (430% of the Home centers, building materials BLS benchmark).

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

knox1926 TCR series: 2017=11 · 2018=18.5 · 2019=14.5 · 2020=15.9 · 2021=13.3 · BLS 3.4

Where knox1926 falls in its industry

6,309 Home centers, building materia establishments

Safer than 1% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #151 safest of 151 Home centers, building materia employers in Tennessee.

knox1926 (50 employees, TCR 14.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 93 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 050100150200250300 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate knox1926
knox1926 (50 employees, TCR 14.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 93 employees and a TCR of 4.7

knox1926 has fewer employees than the Home centers, building materials median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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 13.3 4.4 5 1 0
2020 15.9 5.3 6 0 0
2019 14.5 2.4 6 0 0
2018 18.5 3.1 6 0 0
2017 11.0 5.5 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444110 · TN · Knoxville

6,309 Home centers, building materials 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 McCoys Building Supply- Baytown 14.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR A.W. Graham Lumber, LLC 14.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 3020 14.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gancedo Lumber Co., Inc. 14.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Memphis Greenhouse 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE Winchester Utility System 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE W. R. Newman & Associates, Inc. 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE P&C Construction 50 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 6458-ZELM 14.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Bickford of St. Charles 14.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 252513-Det-Joyfield Sta 14.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 240039-Bos-Jamaica Plain Sta 14.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Superior Hardwoods of Ohio, Inc. - Vincent 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Alta Equipment Company Kentwood 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mangum Skilled Nursing and Therapy 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cardinal Civil Resources 50 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, 2017. 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.