Engineering consulting services · Tennessee

Knoxville Machine Shop

Knoxville, TN · ~35 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
0.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Knoxville Machine Shop runs at 606% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Engineering consulting services workplace, earning a grade F.

Knoxville Machine Shop: 3.0 TCR = 606% of Engineering consulting services BLS 0.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Knoxville Machine Shop safety composite

Knoxville Machine Shop scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 17%), 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

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% 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

−2.7

2018→2022

Knoxville Machine Shop injury rate improved

Knoxville Machine Shop's TCR fell 2.7 from 2.7 in 2018 to 0.0 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2019 at 5.7 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=2.7 · 2019=5.7 · 2020=3.1 · 2021=3.7 · 2022=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 541330 · Knoxville, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 3.0 · 606% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #8/8
  • PHOTO Alexandria VA
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~35 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Alexandria VA (0.0 TCR gap)

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Knoxville Machine Shop in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Knoxville Machine Shop averages 3.0 TCR (606% of the Engineering consulting services BLS benchmark).

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

Knoxville Machine Shop TCR series: 2018=2.7 · 2019=5.7 · 2020=3.1 · 2021=3.7 · 2022=0 · BLS 0.5

Where Knoxville Machine Shop falls in its industry

690 Engineering consulting service establishments

Safer than 17% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 0.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 8 Engineering consulting service employers in Tennessee.

Knoxville Machine Shop (35 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 112 employees and a TCR of 0.9 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 01,0002,0003,0004,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Knoxville Machine Shop
Knoxville Machine Shop (35 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 112 employees and a TCR of 0.9

Knoxville Machine Shop has fewer employees than the Engineering consulting services median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 0.9. 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
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 3.7 0.0 1 0 0
2020 3.1 3.1 1 0 0
2019 5.7 2.8 2 0 0
2018 2.7 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

541330 · TN · Knoxville

690 Engineering consulting services 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 Alexandria VA 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR SRC Hurlburt Field 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Riverside Public Works Engineering, Construction Inspection, Survey 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR MHS 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE TN 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE 810 CRESCENT CENTRE DR FRANKLIN TN 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE 200 NOAH DR FRANKLIN TN 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Distribution and Business Office 35 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 Manila Seafood Oriental Market 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR ADVNC Air Technologies 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 269 - Fredericksburg 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 1018 - Covington-WA 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Victory Wine Group LLC- Houston 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE United Church Homes and Services-Home Office 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ac Iron 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lion Oil Transportation El Dorado, AR 35 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.