Other Building Material Dealers · Tennessee

Knoxville TN Yard (West)

Knoxville, TN · ~53 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Knoxville TN Yard (West) runs at 147% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Other Building Material Dealers workplace, earning a grade D.

Knoxville TN Yard (West): 5.0 TCR = 147% of Other Building Material Dealers BLS 3.4 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Knoxville TN Yard (West) safety composite

Knoxville TN Yard (West) scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 19%), 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

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.1

2017→2023

Knoxville TN Yard (West) injury rate improved

Knoxville TN Yard (West)'s TCR fell 1.1 from 5.8 in 2017 to 4.7 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2018 at 10.9 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.31× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=5.8 · 2018=10.9 · 2019=1.8 · 2020=3.6 · 2021=3.3 · 2022=4.9 · 2023=4.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444180 · Knoxville, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.0 · 147% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK #6/6
  • PHOTO Sioux Falls SD Yard
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~53 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sioux Falls SD Yard (0.0 TCR gap)

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Knoxville TN Yard (West) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Knoxville TN Yard (West) averages 5.0 TCR (147% of the Other Building Material Dealers BLS benchmark).

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

Knoxville TN Yard (West) TCR series: 2017=5.8 · 2018=10.9 · 2019=1.8 · 2020=3.6 · 2021=3.3 · 2022=4.9 · 2023=4.7 · BLS 3.4

Where Knoxville TN Yard (West) falls in its industry

280 Other Building Material Dealer establishments

Safer than 19% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 6 Other Building Material Dealer employers in Tennessee.

Knoxville TN Yard (West) (53 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 34 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 020406080100 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Knoxville TN Yard (West)
Knoxville TN Yard (West) (53 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 34 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Knoxville TN Yard (West) has more employees than the Other Building Material Dealers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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 4.7 1.6 3 0 0
2022 4.9 3.3 3 0 0
2021 3.3 1.7 2 0 0
2020 3.6 3.6 2 0 0
2019 1.8 1.8 1 0 0
2018 10.9 5.5 6 0 0
2017 5.8 5.8 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444180 · TN · Knoxville

280 Other Building Material Dealers 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 Sioux Falls SD Yard 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Orlando FL Yard 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tampa FL Yard 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Casa Grande AZ Yard 4.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Humboldt Utilities 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE SWEETWATER UTILITIES 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE Savannah Office 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE GCC Construction 53 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 Jennmar Corp. of West Virginia 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Virginia Dare Winery 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR LM - Longmont 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Winchester Industries 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Divine House Inc. - Hutchinson 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Davidson'S Organic Tea 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE County Market #212 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nursing Home Facility 53 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.