Water treatment plants · Tennessee

Mark B. Whitaker WP

Knoxville, TN · ~20 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
1.8
Avg TCR
1.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Mark B. Whitaker WP runs at 147% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Water treatment plants workplace, earning a grade D.

Mark B. Whitaker WP: 1.8 TCR = 147% of Water treatment plants BLS 1.2 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Mark B. Whitaker WP safety composite

Mark B. Whitaker WP scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 83% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

C

74/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% 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%).

TCR Δ

−5.1

2016→2024

Mark B. Whitaker WP injury rate improved

Mark B. Whitaker WP's TCR fell 5.1 from 5.1 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 5.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=5.1 · 2017=0.0 · 2018=5.5 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=5.3 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 221310 · Knoxville, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 1.8 · 147% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #4/15
  • PHOTO Fort Johnson
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~20 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Fort Johnson (0.0 TCR gap)

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Mark B. Whitaker WP in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Mark B. Whitaker WP averages 1.8 TCR (147% of the Water treatment plants BLS benchmark).

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

Mark B. Whitaker WP TCR series: 2016=5.1 · 2017=0 · 2018=5.5 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=5.3 · 2024=0 · BLS 1.2

Where Mark B. Whitaker WP falls in its industry

727 Water treatment plants establishments

Safer than 80% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 15 Water treatment plants employers in Tennessee.

Mark B. Whitaker WP (20 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.2 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 0100200300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Mark B. Whitaker WP
Mark B. Whitaker WP (20 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.2

Mark B. Whitaker WP has fewer employees than the Water treatment plants median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.2. 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 5.3 0.0 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 5.5 0.0 1 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 5.1 5.1 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

221310 · TN · Knoxville

727 Water treatment plants 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 Fort Johnson 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mammoth Community Water District 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6032 - Charlotte 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR UTY - New Jersey - Toms River,NJ 1.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Machine Harvest 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Columbia DREMC 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE CEMC-Gallatin 20 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 Allnex-Wallingford 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Bluewater Thermal Solutions - Coldwater 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR F-S Prestress LLC Hattiesburg 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR DEMCO 1.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Volo Plant 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Franklin Bronze Plaques 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Thieman Manufacturing Technologies 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gec Enterprises LLC 20 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.