Freight Transportation · Tennessee

NKX

Knoxville, TN · ~255 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.1
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

NKX runs at 91% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Freight Transportation workplace, earning a grade C.

NKX: 4.1 TCR = 91% of Freight Transportation BLS 4.5 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

NKX safety composite

NKX scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 71% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 2%), 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

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 2% 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

NKX: 3.4 → 4.5 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 5.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.89× in 2024

NKX's TCR rose 1.1 from 3.4 in 2016 to 4.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 5.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.89× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484122 · Knoxville, TN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 4.1 · 91% of ind

  • DART 3.6 DART
  • RANK #47/123
  • PHOTO XAH
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 111 inj
  • SIZE ~255 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: XAH (0.0 TCR gap)

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NKX in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows NKX averages 4.1 TCR (91% of the Freight Transportation BLS benchmark).

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

NKX TCR series: 2016=3.4 · 2017=4.6 · 2018=4.1 · 2019=4 · 2020=3.5 · 2021=5.7 · 2022=3.9 · 2023=3 · 2024=4.5 · BLS 4.5

Where NKX falls in its industry

3,020 Freight Transportation establishments

Safer than 71% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #47 safest of 123 Freight Transportation employers in Tennessee.

NKX (255 employees, TCR 4.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 5.6 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate NKX
NKX (255 employees, TCR 4.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 5.6

NKX has more employees than the Freight Transportation median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.6. 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 4.5 3.6 15 0 0
2023 3.0 2.1 10 0 1
2022 3.9 3.6 13 0 0
2021 5.7 4.8 16 2 0
2020 3.5 2.8 10 0 0
2019 4.0 2.7 12 0 0
2018 4.1 2.5 13 0 0
2017 4.6 2.5 13 0 0
2016 3.4 2.3 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484122 · TN · Knoxville

3,020 Freight Transportation 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 XAH 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR XSJ 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 034-KAC 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Costco DCT 4.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE ThyssenKrupp Automotive Systems of America 255 FTE
STATE-SIZE TwelveStone Health Partners Inc. 255 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 5616 255 FTE
STATE-SIZE GCY CORP SERV 255 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 XAH 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR XSJ 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Dallas West 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Facility Maintenance 4.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE CHI 255 FTE
NAT-SIZE SalonCentric Inc. - Manchester Distribution 255 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gage Brothers Concrete Products, Inc. 255 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pewaukee 255 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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