Wholesale distribution of magazines and books · Tennessee

NGDS

Knoxville, TN · ~34 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.8
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
Subscribe to safety-record updates (RSS)

The verdict

NGDS runs at 172% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Wholesale distribution of magazines and books workplace, earning a grade D.

NGDS: 3.8 TCR = 172% of Wholesale distribution of magazines and books BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

NGDS safety composite

NGDS scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 90% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 49%), 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

64/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% of industry peers

DART rate
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 90% 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

−1.9

2018→2021

NGDS injury rate improved

NGDS's TCR fell 1.9 from 7.3 in 2018 to 5.4 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2018 at 7.3 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=7.3 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=2.5 · 2021=5.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424920 · Knoxville, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 3.8 · 172% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #2/4
  • PHOTO 4206-00950003-950000
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~34 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 4206-00950003-950000 (0.2 TCR gap)

Read with this employer → · Industry book → · Tennessee employers → · Look up another →

NGDS in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows NGDS averages 3.8 TCR (172% of the Wholesale distribution of magazines and books BLS benchmark).

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

NGDS TCR series: 2018=7.3 · 2019=0 · 2020=2.5 · 2021=5.4 · BLS 2.2

Where NGDS falls in its industry

57 Wholesale distribution of maga establishments

Safer than 49% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 4 Wholesale distribution of maga employers in Tennessee.

NGDS (34 employees, TCR 3.8) among 25 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 191 employees and a TCR of 3.8 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 26 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 0200400600 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate NGDS
NGDS (34 employees, TCR 3.8) among 25 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 191 employees and a TCR of 3.8

NGDS has fewer employees than the Wholesale distribution of magazines and median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.8. 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
2021 5.4 0.0 1 0 0
2020 2.5 0.0 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 7.3 7.3 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424920 · TN · Knoxville

57 Wholesale distribution of magazines and books 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 4206-00950003-950000 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR ReaderLink Southern Distribution Center 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Baker & Taylor Momence 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Barnes and Noble Distribution Center 3.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Obion County Hatchery 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE UCEMC Cookeville 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE RKA Construction, LLC 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE AGM-Tennessee 34 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 Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Willow 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Detmar Logistics LLC 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Muhlenberg College-Catering 3.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Aerostar Sulphur Springs 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Salinas Grocery Outlet 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hussmann Services Corporation- New Orleans 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE River Valley Cooperative-Sunbury Mill 34 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.