Blood and Organ Banks- Plasma Collection Services · Tennessee

Knoxville Plasma Center

Knoxville, TN · ~29 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.9
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Knoxville Plasma Center runs at 129% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Blood and Organ Banks- Plasma Collection Services workplace, earning a grade D.

Knoxville Plasma Center: 4.9 TCR = 129% of Blood and Organ Banks- Plasma Collection Services BLS 3.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Knoxville Plasma Center safety composite

Knoxville Plasma Center scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 26%), 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

38/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% 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

Knoxville Plasma Center: 3.9 → 10.8 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 10.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.73× in 2024

Knoxville Plasma Center's TCR rose 6.9 from 3.9 in 2022 to 10.8 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.73× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 621991 · Knoxville, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.9 · 129% of ind

  • DART 3.6 DART
  • RANK #27/48
  • PHOTO CAOAK-OPI-OAKLAND 487
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~29 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: CAOAK-OPI-OAKLAND 487 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Knoxville Plasma Center in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Knoxville Plasma Center averages 4.9 TCR (129% of the Blood and Organ Banks- Plasma Collection Services BLS benchmark).

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

Knoxville Plasma Center TCR series: 2022=3.9 · 2023=0 · 2024=10.8 · BLS 3.8

Where Knoxville Plasma Center falls in its industry

1,713 Blood and Organ Banks- Plasma establishments

Safer than 42% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #27 safest of 48 Blood and Organ Banks- Plasma employers in Tennessee.

Knoxville Plasma Center (29 employees, TCR 4.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 4.3 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Knoxville Plasma Center
Knoxville Plasma Center (29 employees, TCR 4.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 4.3

Knoxville Plasma Center has fewer employees than the Blood and Organ Banks- Plasma Collection median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.3. 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 10.8 3.6 2 1 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 3.9 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

621991 · TN · Knoxville

1,713 Blood and Organ Banks- Plasma Collection 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 CAOAK-OPI-OAKLAND 487 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR AMERICAN RED CROSS - 2131 DECKNER AVE 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Green Bay, WI - Isbell St-BioLife 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Universal City, TX-BioLife 4.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Tosh Pork Crutchfield 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Waynes Fayetteville 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Brookfield Renewable - Brookfield Smoky Mountain Hydro 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE UCEMC Carthage 29 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 Viking Range, LLC - Lynx Outdoors 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Metal Sales - Spokane 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Hanwha Aerospace USA - Newington 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 2316 Elizabethtown 4.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Yates Cylinders Georgia 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jay's Electric, Inc. 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Waste Path Services, LLC 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE GFL Environmental Pontiac MRF 29 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, 2022. 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.