Transit · Tennessee

Memphis Area Transit

Memphis, TN · ~516 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.1
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Memphis Area Transit runs at 270% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Transit workplace, earning a grade F.

Memphis Area Transit: 12.1 TCR = 270% of Transit BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Memphis Area Transit safety composite

Memphis Area Transit scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 12%), 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

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 12.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Memphis Area Transit: 9.8 → 15.0 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 15.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.7× in 2019

Memphis Area Transit's TCR rose 5.2 from 9.8 in 2017 to 15.0 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0.7× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485111 · Memphis, TN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 12.1 · 270% of ind

  • DART 8.5 DART
  • RANK #4/4
  • PHOTO Bend, OR
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 173 inj
  • SIZE ~516 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bend, OR (0.1 TCR gap)

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Memphis Area Transit in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Memphis Area Transit averages 12.1 TCR (270% of the Transit BLS benchmark).

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

Memphis Area Transit TCR series: 2017=9.8 · 2018=11.7 · 2019=15 · BLS 4.5

Where Memphis Area Transit falls in its industry

421 Transit establishments

Safer than 12% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.8.

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 4 Transit employers in Tennessee.

Memphis Area Transit (516 employees, TCR 12.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 217 employees and a TCR of 5.8 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Memphis Area Transit
Memphis Area Transit (516 employees, TCR 12.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 217 employees and a TCR of 5.8

Memphis Area Transit has more employees than the Transit median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.8. 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
2019 15.0 8.5 72 11 0
2018 11.7 10.5 50 2 0
2017 9.8 7.9 51 5 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485111 · TN · Memphis

421 Transit employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 1,330 employers in Memphis, 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 Bend, OR 12.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Metro Transit Transfer Road & Police Department 12.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4102 TRACK MAINTENANCE 12.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 803 Maintenance 12.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE 975 Kansas, Memphis Plant 516 FTE
STATE-SIZE Milan Supply Chain Solutions 516 FTE
STATE-SIZE Middle Tennessee Mental Health Institute 516 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Hershey Company-Memphis, TN 515 FTE
CITY-NEAR FedEx 2903 SPRANKLE DR 12,398 FTE
CITY-NEAR 381940311 9,861 FTE
CITY-NEAR American Residential Services 5,775 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Jude Children's Research Hospital 5,599 FTE
NAT-TCR 2073-SW-20730031-CS 12.1 TCR
NAT-TCR California Retrofit Inc 12.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Headway HR Solutions 12.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Nhmf. LLC 12.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Beacon Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, Ltd 516 FTE
NAT-SIZE Minnesota Correctional Facility, Lino Lakes 516 FTE
NAT-SIZE Glenridge Center 516 FTE
NAT-SIZE Harrah'S Reno Hotel & Casino 516 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: 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.