Water well drilling, digging, boring or sinking (except water intake wells in oil and gas fields) · Tennessee

M & W Drilling, LLC

Knoxville, TN · ~48 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.6
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

M & W Drilling, LLC runs at 20% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Water well drilling, digging, boring or sinking (except water intake wells in oil and gas fields) workplace, earning a grade A.

M & W Drilling, LLC: 0.6 TCR = 20% of Water well drilling, digging, boring or sinking (except water intake wells in oil and gas fields) BLS 2.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

M & W Drilling, LLC safety composite

M & W Drilling, LLC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 95% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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).

B

79/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 95% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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%).

M & W Drilling, LLC held a steady TCR band

M & W Drilling, LLC's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2020 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 1.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=0.0 · 2023=1.7 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237110 · Knoxville, TN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.6 · 20% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #2/36
  • PHOTO Cratus Inc Main Office
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~48 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cratus Inc Main Office (0.0 TCR gap)

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M & W Drilling, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows M & W Drilling, LLC averages 0.6 TCR (20% of the Water well drilling, digging, boring or sinking (except water intake wells in oil and gas fields) BLS benchmark).

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

M & W Drilling, LLC TCR series: 2020=0 · 2023=1.7 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.8

Where M & W Drilling, LLC falls in its industry

1,614 Water well drilling, digging, establishments

Safer than 95% 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 #2 safest of 36 Water well drilling, digging, employers in Tennessee.

M & W Drilling, LLC (48 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 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 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate M & W Drilling, LLC
M & W Drilling, LLC (48 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 3.0

M & W Drilling, LLC has fewer employees than the Water well drilling, digging, boring or 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
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 1.7 1.7 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237110 · TN · Knoxville

1,614 Water well drilling, digging, boring or sinking (except water intake wells in oil and gas fields) 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 Cratus Inc Main Office 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Balfour Beatty - Sterling Natural Resources 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Summit Construction & Development LLC 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR ECI Garden City 0.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bolivar Energy Authority 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Electric Department 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jefferson Cocke County Utility District 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Chattanooga Service Center 48 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 Jacksonville Branch 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Saver Group,Inc 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Community Health Aide Services 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR EFI Polymers 0.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Butler Rural Electric Cooperative 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Schmuck Hanover 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fuller Cabinets, Inc. 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE EcoEnclose 48 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, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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