Garbage collection services · Tennessee

Knoxville Oak Ridge

Oak Ridge, TN · ~43 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.2
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Knoxville Oak Ridge runs at 240% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Garbage collection services workplace, earning a grade F.

Knoxville Oak Ridge: 6.2 TCR = 240% of Garbage collection services BLS 2.6 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Knoxville Oak Ridge safety composite

Knoxville Oak Ridge scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 24%), 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

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

Knoxville Oak Ridge: 4.0 → 8.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 8.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.01× in 2024

Knoxville Oak Ridge's TCR rose 4.4 from 4.0 in 2023 to 8.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.01× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562111 · Oak Ridge, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.2 · 240% of ind

  • DART 6.3 DART
  • RANK #33/43
  • PHOTO H & O Services
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~43 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: H & O Services (0.0 TCR gap)

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Knoxville Oak Ridge in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Knoxville Oak Ridge averages 6.2 TCR (240% of the Garbage collection services BLS benchmark).

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

Knoxville Oak Ridge TCR series: 2023=4 · 2024=8.4 · BLS 2.6

Where Knoxville Oak Ridge falls in its industry

2,322 Garbage collection services establishments

Safer than 37% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #33 safest of 43 Garbage collection services employers in Tennessee.

Knoxville Oak Ridge (43 employees, TCR 6.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 5.1 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Knoxville Oak Ridge
Knoxville Oak Ridge (43 employees, TCR 6.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Knoxville Oak Ridge has fewer employees than the Garbage collection services median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.1. 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 8.4 6.3 4 0 0
2023 4.0 4.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562111 · TN · Oak Ridge

2,322 Garbage collection services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 107 employers in Oak Ridge, 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 H & O Services 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Veit Disposal 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR ShelterClean Sun Valley Route Svc 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mold Zero LLC 6.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Mountain Electric Coop 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Parent Company, Inc. 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE BluSky - Bartlett 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE American Constructors, Inc. 43 FTE
CITY-NEAR UCOR 1,817 FTE
CITY-NEAR Uranium Processing Facility (UPF) EPC Work) 1,637 FTE
CITY-NEAR Uranium Processng Facility (UPF) (EPC Work) 1,250 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1969-MMC1 1,180 FTE
NAT-TCR Roberts Capitol, Inc. 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR ShopRite of New Paltz 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Red Rose Interior Inc 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Brookdale Central Paradise Valley 6.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lewistown 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Carman Industries 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jane Hatchery 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fulcrum Acoustic, LLC 43 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. 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.