Blood banks · Tennessee

MEDIC Regional Blood Center

Knoxville, TN · ~129 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.1
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

MEDIC Regional Blood Center runs at 187% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Blood banks workplace, earning a grade D.

MEDIC Regional Blood Center: 7.1 TCR = 187% of Blood banks BLS 3.8 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

MEDIC Regional Blood Center safety composite

MEDIC Regional Blood Center scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 22%), 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

35/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% 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

−0.7

2020→2024

MEDIC Regional Blood Center injury rate improved

MEDIC Regional Blood Center's TCR fell 0.7 from 4.8 in 2020 to 4.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 9.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.35× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=4.8 · 2021=9.0 · 2022=9.4 · 2023=8.2 · 2024=4.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 621991 · Knoxville, TN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 7.1 · 187% of ind

  • DART 2.5 DART
  • RANK #34/48
  • PHOTO Topeka
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 35 inj
  • SIZE ~129 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Topeka (0.0 TCR gap)

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MEDIC Regional Blood Center in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows MEDIC Regional Blood Center averages 7.1 TCR (187% of the Blood banks BLS benchmark).

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

MEDIC Regional Blood Center TCR series: 2020=4.8 · 2021=9 · 2022=9.4 · 2023=8.2 · 2024=4.1 · BLS 3.8

Where MEDIC Regional Blood Center falls in its industry

1,713 Blood banks establishments

Safer than 22% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #34 safest of 48 Blood banks employers in Tennessee.

MEDIC Regional Blood Center (129 employees, TCR 7.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 4.3 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate MEDIC Regional Blood Center
MEDIC Regional Blood Center (129 employees, TCR 7.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 4.3

MEDIC Regional Blood Center has more employees than the Blood banks median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.3. 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 4.1 2.5 5 0 0
2023 8.2 1.5 11 0 0
2022 9.4 8.1 7 0 0
2021 9.0 5.6 8 0 0
2020 4.8 2.9 4 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

621991 · TN · Knoxville

1,713 Blood banks 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 Topeka 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR CBC 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Interstate Blood and Plasma - Kenosha, WI 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ames, IA-Biolife 660 7.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Lendlease - Communities 129 FTE
STATE-SIZE Leclerc Foods Tennessee 129 FTE
STATE-SIZE NAPP Greeneville 129 FTE
STATE-SIZE Plant 1 129 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 PRBH- Lourie Center 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 1384 - Bakersfield NW 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 1282 - Helena 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 0774 - Joplin 7.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hunter-Davisson, Inc. 129 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2458 - Aurora South 129 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2139 - Westheimer 129 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2066 - Willowbrook 129 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. 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.