Loading and unloading services at rail terminals · Tennessee

Memphis

Memphis, TN · ~463 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Memphis runs at 122% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Loading and unloading services at rail terminals workplace, earning a grade D.

Memphis: 5.5 TCR = 122% of Loading and unloading services at rail terminals BLS 4.5 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Memphis safety composite

Memphis scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 18% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 1%), 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

10/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 1% 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: 3.6 → 7.3 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 8.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.17× in 2024

Memphis's TCR rose 3.7 from 3.6 in 2016 to 7.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 8.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.17× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 488210 · Memphis, TN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.5 · 122% of ind

  • DART 6.5 DART
  • RANK #4/5
  • PHOTO Miles City Montana
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 224 inj
  • SIZE ~463 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Miles City Montana (0.0 TCR gap)

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Memphis in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Memphis averages 5.5 TCR (122% of the Loading and unloading services at rail terminals BLS benchmark).

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

Memphis TCR series: 2016=3.6 · 2017=8.9 · 2018=3.5 · 2019=4.3 · 2020=6.8 · 2021=5 · 2022=2.1 · 2023=8 · 2024=7.3 · BLS 4.5

Where Memphis falls in its industry

409 Loading and unloading services establishments

Safer than 18% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

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 5 Loading and unloading services employers in Tennessee.

Memphis (463 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 2.8 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 0200400600800 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Memphis
Memphis (463 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 2.8

Memphis has more employees than the Loading and unloading services at rail t median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.8. 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
2024 7.3 6.5 26 0 0
2023 8.0 7.7 29 0 0
2022 2.1 2.1 6 0 0
2021 5.0 4.2 18 0 0
2020 6.8 6.8 19 0 0
2019 4.3 2.6 39 3 0
2018 3.5 2.5 26 4 1
2017 8.9 8.9 29 0 0
2016 3.6 2.9 32 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

488210 · TN · Memphis

409 Loading and unloading services at rail terminals 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 Miles City Montana 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR RRS Greensburg 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR ARI NKC 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Harvey 5.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Memphis 135 463 FTE
STATE-SIZE 3311 LOWE S OF NASHVILLE TN DFC 463 FTE
STATE-SIZE ABB Memphis 463 FTE
STATE-SIZE Stern Cardiovascular Foundation 463 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 Store #48 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR American Excelsior Company Florence 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Englewood Hospital and Medical Center 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Dickerson Mechanical, Inc. 5.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE CFAN Company 463 FTE
NAT-SIZE Prospect Airport Services CLT 463 FTE
NAT-SIZE Vos Electric, Inc. 463 FTE
NAT-SIZE IAA 463 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.

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