Pallet Wood Plant · Tennessee

Knoxville,TN - 234

Knoxville, TN · ~45 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
13.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Knoxville,TN - 234 runs at 416% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Pallet Wood Plant workplace, earning a grade F.

Knoxville,TN - 234: 13.7 TCR = 416% of Pallet Wood Plant BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Knoxville,TN - 234 safety composite

Knoxville,TN - 234 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 11%), 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

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 13.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers

DART rate
F 11.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% 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,TN - 234: 5.9 → 19.7 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 19.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.82× in 2024

Knoxville,TN - 234's TCR rose 13.8 from 5.9 in 2022 to 19.7 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.82× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321920 · Knoxville, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 13.7 · 416% of ind

  • DART 11.3 DART
  • RANK #35/38
  • PHOTO Recycled Westborough…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~45 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Recycled Westborough )(UT2K) (0.0 TCR gap)

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Knoxville,TN - 234 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Knoxville,TN - 234 averages 13.7 TCR (416% of the Pallet Wood Plant BLS benchmark).

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

Knoxville,TN - 234 TCR series: 2022=5.9 · 2023=15.5 · 2024=19.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Knoxville,TN - 234 falls in its industry

952 Pallet Wood Plant establishments

Safer than 11% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #35 safest of 38 Pallet Wood Plant employers in Tennessee.

Knoxville,TN - 234 (45 employees, TCR 13.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 6.3 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 0100200300400500 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Knoxville,TN - 234
Knoxville,TN - 234 (45 employees, TCR 13.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 6.3

Knoxville,TN - 234 has fewer employees than the Pallet Wood Plant median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.3. 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 19.7 11.3 7 0 0
2023 15.5 12.9 6 0 0
2022 5.9 5.9 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321920 · TN · Knoxville

952 Pallet Wood Plant 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 Recycled Westborough )(UT2K) 13.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Propak - Mira Loma, CA 13.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR United Pallet Services, Inc. 13.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kane Logistics - Lakeland 13.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE MEC Headquarters 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Advanced Power & Lighting, LLC - 230 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hollingsworth Paving Inc. 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hawkins Asphalt Paving, LLC 45 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 Myrtle Beach Grove Senior Living 13.7 TCR
NAT-TCR The Fab Shop 13.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Brookdale Mt. Hood 13.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Mrs. Gerry's Kitchen, LLC 13.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Dunn,NC Pallet Plant - 329 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Savannah,GA Plant - 328 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE La Crosse Graphics Inc 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE WINDSOR 45 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.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.