Farm supplies merchant wholesalers · Tennessee

Nature's Best Organics - Solway & Trucking

Name: Nature's Best Organics - Solway & Trucking Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Knoxville, TN · ~21 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

D
Poor Safety Record: 4.2
Avg TCR: 2.2
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Nature's Best Organics - Solway & Trucking runs at 191% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Farm supplies merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Nature's Best Organics - Solway & Trucking: 4.2 TCR = 191% of Farm supplies merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Nature's Best Organics - Solway & Trucking safety composite

Nature's Best Organics - Solway & Trucking scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 74% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 41%), 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).

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): D 4.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% of industry peers
DART rate: C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% 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

Nature's Best Organics - Solway & Trucking: 0.0 → 8.4 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 8.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2017

Nature's Best Organics - Solway & Trucking's TCR rose 8.4 from 0.0 in 2016 to 8.4 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424910 · Knoxville, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.2 · 191% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #37/59
PHOTO Garden City
BOOK 2y book
INJ 2 inj
SIZE ~21 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Garden City (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Nature's Best Organics - Solway & Trucking averages 4.2 TCR (191% of the Farm supplies merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

Nature's Best Organics - Solway & Trucking TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=8.4 · BLS 2.2

Where Nature's Best Organics - Solway & Trucking falls in its industry

1,202 Farm supplies merchant wholesa establishments

Safer than 41% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

Grade D

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #37 safest of 59 Farm supplies merchant wholesa employers in Tennessee.

Nature's Best Organics - Solway & Trucking (21 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Nature's Best Organics - Solway & Trucking has fewer employees than the Farm supplies merchant wholesalers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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
2017	8.4	0.0	2	0	0
2016	0.0	0.0	0	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424910 · TN · Knoxville

1,202 Farm supplies merchant wholesalers 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	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Garden City	GARDEN CITY, KS	4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Cal Feed	CALEDONIA, MI	4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	71355	PERHAM, MN	4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Meadowland Farmers Coop - Lamberton	LAMBERTON, MN	4.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE	SOUTH TEXAS FARM	KINGSVILLE	21 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Greenpoint Ag- Gin & Warehouse	COVINGTON	21 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Johnson Pest Control, Inc.	SEVIERVILLE	21 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Obion County Growout	UNION CITY	21 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Cellular Sales Services Group LLC	Knoxville	6,387 FTE
CITY-NEAR	University Health System, Inc	Knoxville	5,215 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Functional Pathways of TN LLC	Knoxville	2,258 FTE
CITY-NEAR	HES Facilities Services K-12	Knoxville	2,157 FTE
NAT-TCR	Joplin (Mojop)	Joplin, MO	4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	GDIT Pawcatuck Mechanic St	Pawcatuck, CT	4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	Generations at Agritopia	Gilbert, AZ	4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	dd s DISCOUNTS Store 5237	Austin, TX	4.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE	4006 Mt. Aloysius College	Cresson, PA	21 FTE
NAT-SIZE	0774 - Albuquerque-Central, Nm	Albuquerque, NM	21 FTE
NAT-SIZE	0744 - Jasper, Al	Jasper, AL	21 FTE
NAT-SIZE	0725 - Easton, Pa	Easton, PA	21 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: 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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