Plumbing and heating contractors · Tennessee

Knoxville TN Branch

Knoxville, TN · ~37 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
14.3
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Knoxville TN Branch runs at 510% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Plumbing and heating contractors workplace, earning a grade F.

Knoxville TN Branch: 14.3 TCR = 510% of Plumbing and heating contractors BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Knoxville TN Branch safety composite

Knoxville TN Branch scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 3%), 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

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 14.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% 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 TN Branch: 0.0 → 28.6 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 28.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2023

Knoxville TN Branch's TCR rose 28.6 from 0.0 in 2022 to 28.6 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238220 · Knoxville, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 14.3 · 510% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #116/117
  • PHOTO Poudre Valley Air Se…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~37 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Poudre Valley Air Services LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Knoxville TN Branch in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Knoxville TN Branch averages 14.3 TCR (510% of the Plumbing and heating contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Knoxville TN Branch TCR series: 2022=0 · 2023=28.6 · BLS 2.8

Where Knoxville TN Branch falls in its industry

5,793 Plumbing and heating contracto establishments

Safer than 3% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #116 safest of 117 Plumbing and heating contracto employers in Tennessee.

Knoxville TN Branch (37 employees, TCR 14.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 050100150200250 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Knoxville TN Branch
Knoxville TN Branch (37 employees, TCR 14.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Knoxville TN Branch has fewer employees than the Plumbing and heating contractors median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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
2023 28.6 0.0 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238220 · TN · Knoxville

5,793 Plumbing and heating contractors 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 Poudre Valley Air Services LLC 14.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Accelerated Mechanical Services 14.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sagebilt 14.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR LKMA, LLC D/B/A Ideal Services Company 14.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Shelbyville Hatchery 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dyersburg Electric System 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corp 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE RFW CONSTRUCTION GROUP 37 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 TreHus Builders Inc. 14.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Waynesburg Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center 14.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Transportation 14.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Franz Bakery- Nampa 14.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE VRS Pittsburgh, PA 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Prince Conference Center 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Niehoff Endex North America Inc. 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Masonomics, Inc. 37 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.