Tube, welded, aluminum, made by flat rolling purchased aluminum · Tennessee

Knoxville Sheet Metal Works, Inc.

Knoxville, TN · ~47 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Knoxville Sheet Metal Works, Inc. runs at 231% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Tube, welded, aluminum, made by flat rolling purchased aluminum workplace, earning a grade F.

Knoxville Sheet Metal Works, Inc.: 7.6 TCR = 231% of Tube, welded, aluminum, made by flat rolling purchased aluminum BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Knoxville Sheet Metal Works, Inc. safety composite

Knoxville Sheet Metal Works, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 6%), 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

18/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Knoxville Sheet Metal Works, Inc.: 7.3 → 8.0 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 8.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.7× in 2023

Knoxville Sheet Metal Works, Inc.'s TCR rose 0.7 from 7.3 in 2022 to 8.0 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0.7× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331315 · Knoxville, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.6 · 231% of ind

  • DART 5.3 DART
  • RANK #4/5
  • PHOTO Quality Metals Inc
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~47 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Quality Metals Inc (0.1 TCR gap)

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Knoxville Sheet Metal Works, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Knoxville Sheet Metal Works, Inc. averages 7.6 TCR (231% of the Tube, welded, aluminum, made by flat rolling purchased aluminum BLS benchmark).

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

Knoxville Sheet Metal Works, Inc. TCR series: 2022=7.3 · 2023=8 · BLS 3.3

Where Knoxville Sheet Metal Works, Inc. falls in its industry

70 Tube, welded, aluminum, made b establishments

Safer than 9% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 5 Tube, welded, aluminum, made b employers in Tennessee.

Knoxville Sheet Metal Works, Inc. (47 employees, TCR 7.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 208 employees and a TCR of 2.4 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Knoxville Sheet Metal Works, Inc.
Knoxville Sheet Metal Works, Inc. (47 employees, TCR 7.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 208 employees and a TCR of 2.4

Knoxville Sheet Metal Works, Inc. has fewer employees than the Tube, welded, aluminum, made by flat rol median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.4. 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
2023 8.0 5.3 3 0 0
2022 7.3 2.4 2 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331315 · TN · Knoxville

70 Tube, welded, aluminum, made by flat rolling purchased aluminum 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 Quality Metals Inc 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Aluminum Blanking Company, INC. 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Skana Aluminum West Virginia 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Erickson Metals Corporation 7.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Tennessee Hatchery 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE Proton Power Inc. 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE BAE Analytical Lab 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE SC420 - Nashville 47 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 Mission Care Center 7.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Mohave Valley Fire Department 7.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Txcan - Houston (Canino) Hub 7.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Heartfields at Cary 7.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Poland 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sweeney 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE Boone REMC 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ecco Ride Wright City 47 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: 2023, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.