Transportation Motor Freight Transportation Trucking except Air · Tennessee

Knoxville/Lenoir City Terminal-DOT

Lenoir City, TN · ~294 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.9
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Knoxville/Lenoir City Terminal-DOT runs at 64% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Transportation Motor Freight Transportation Trucking except Air workplace, earning a grade B.

Knoxville/Lenoir City Terminal-DOT: 2.9 TCR = 64% of Transportation Motor Freight Transportation Trucking except Air BLS 4.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Knoxville/Lenoir City Terminal-DOT safety composite

Knoxville/Lenoir City Terminal-DOT scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 46%), 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

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

−1.9

2016→2023

Knoxville/Lenoir City Terminal-DOT injury rate improved

Knoxville/Lenoir City Terminal-DOT's TCR fell 1.9 from 4.2 in 2016 to 2.3 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2016 at 4.2 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.81× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=4.2 · 2017=2.7 · 2018=2.5 · 2022=2.7 · 2023=2.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484121 · Lenoir City, TN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.9 · 64% of ind

  • DART 2.3 DART
  • RANK #59/128
  • PHOTO New Creation Transpo…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 47 inj
  • SIZE ~294 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: New Creation Transport Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Knoxville/Lenoir City Terminal-DOT in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Knoxville/Lenoir City Terminal-DOT averages 2.9 TCR (64% of the Transportation Motor Freight Transportation Trucking except Air BLS benchmark).

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

Knoxville/Lenoir City Terminal-DOT TCR series: 2016=4.2 · 2017=2.7 · 2018=2.5 · 2022=2.7 · 2023=2.3 · BLS 4.5

Where Knoxville/Lenoir City Terminal-DOT falls in its industry

3,252 Transportation Motor Freight T establishments

Safer than 53% 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 #59 safest of 128 Transportation Motor Freight T employers in Tennessee.

Knoxville/Lenoir City Terminal-DOT (294 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Knoxville/Lenoir City Terminal-DOT
Knoxville/Lenoir City Terminal-DOT (294 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Knoxville/Lenoir City Terminal-DOT has more employees than the Transportation Motor Freight Transportat median and a lower 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 2.3 2.3 7 0 0
2022 2.7 2.7 9 0 0
2018 2.5 1.8 6 2 0
2017 2.7 2.1 9 0 0
2016 4.2 3.7 16 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484121 · TN · Lenoir City

3,252 Transportation Motor Freight Transportation Trucking except Air employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 41 employers in Lenoir City, 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 New Creation Transport Inc. 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Heartland Express Carlisle 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR PAM Transport - Laredo, TX 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR BIG G EXPRESS INC 2.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE TEC Industrial Maintenance & Construction (Eastman Division) 294 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 1089 294 FTE
STATE-SIZE 471562-CHATTANOOGA TN P&DC 294 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1855-TNNAS175 294 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hubbell Lenoir City, Inc 329 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 741 329 FTE
CITY-NEAR H.T.Hackney 299 FTE
CITY-NEAR 741 298 FTE
NAT-TCR EMPI Inc. DBA/034Motorsport 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 36 Highland Tape 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Cottage Grove West (CGW) - Donkel 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR American Metals West Sacramento 2.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lahey Shared Services IT 294 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sofidel America 294 FTE
NAT-SIZE Southfield Mi 294 FTE
NAT-SIZE Snack Alliance - SHearer's Foods - Bristol 294 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, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.