Other Grocery-Related Products Merchant Wholesalers · Tennessee

Knoxville

Alcoa, TN · ~249 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.2
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Knoxville runs at 190% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Other Grocery-Related Products Merchant Wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Knoxville: 4.2 TCR = 190% of Other Grocery-Related Products Merchant Wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Knoxville safety composite

Knoxville scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 68% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

63/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 68% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.5

2016→2024

Knoxville injury rate improved

Knoxville's TCR fell 0.5 from 3.7 in 2016 to 3.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 4.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.68× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=3.7 · 2019=4.9 · 2023=4.9 · 2024=3.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424410 · Alcoa, TN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.2 · 190% of ind

  • DART 2.8 DART
  • RANK #20/43
  • PHOTO Restaurant Depot 812
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 41 inj
  • SIZE ~249 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Restaurant Depot 812 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Knoxville in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Knoxville averages 4.2 TCR (190% of the Other Grocery-Related Products Merchant Wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Knoxville TCR series: 2016=3.7 · 2019=4.9 · 2023=4.9 · 2024=3.2 · BLS 2.2

Where Knoxville falls in its industry

1,651 Other Grocery-Related Products establishments

Safer than 68% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #20 safest of 43 Other Grocery-Related Products employers in Tennessee.

Knoxville (249 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 172 employees and a TCR of 6.1 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 0200400600800 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Knoxville
Knoxville (249 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 172 employees and a TCR of 6.1

Knoxville has more employees than the Other Grocery-Related Products Merchant median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.1. 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 3.2 2.8 10 0 0
2023 4.9 4.3 15 0 0
2019 4.9 4.9 13 0 0
2016 3.7 2.8 3 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424410 · TN · Alcoa

1,651 Other Grocery-Related Products Merchant Wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 54 employers in Alcoa, 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 Restaurant Depot 812 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR AWG - OKLAHOMA CITY 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Performance Chicago - 0785 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Restaurant Depot 547 4.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Specialty Tires of America (TN), LLC 249 FTE
STATE-SIZE 238 249 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4533 249 FTE
STATE-SIZE CHATTANOOGA_1441267 249 FTE
CITY-NEAR Arconic Inc. 1,169 FTE
CITY-NEAR Arconic Tennessee Operations 1,084 FTE
CITY-NEAR 672 411 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 672 397 FTE
NAT-TCR Fidelitone - Charlotte, NC 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Jcb Inc 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Lawrence Construction Company 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Carter Lumber Door Shop 229 4.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE King Industries 249 FTE
NAT-SIZE STR0458 249 FTE
NAT-SIZE B&B Electric Services Inc 249 FTE
NAT-SIZE 407 Macedon 249 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, 2019, 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.