Employer · Tennessee

O'Neal Steel Incoporated_Knoxville

Knoxville, TN · ~21 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.9
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

O'Neal Steel Incoporated_Knoxville runs at 312% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade F.

O'Neal Steel Incoporated_Knoxville: 6.9 TCR = 312% of industry BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

O'Neal Steel Incoporated_Knoxville safety composite

O'Neal Steel Incoporated_Knoxville scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 21%), 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

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% 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%).

TCR Δ

−5.1

2022→2023

O'Neal Steel Incoporated_Knoxville injury rate improved

O'Neal Steel Incoporated_Knoxville's TCR fell 5.1 from 9.4 in 2022 to 4.3 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 9.4 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.63× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=9.4 · 2023=4.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423510 · Knoxville, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.9 · 312% of ind

  • DART 4.3 DART
  • RANK #29/32
  • PHOTO vanex tube corporation
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~21 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: vanex tube corporation (0.0 TCR gap)

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O'Neal Steel Incoporated_Knoxville in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows O'Neal Steel Incoporated_Knoxville averages 6.9 TCR (312% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

O'Neal Steel Incoporated_Knoxville TCR series: 2022=9.4 · 2023=4.3 · BLS 2.2

Where O'Neal Steel Incoporated_Knoxville falls in its industry

1,299 industry establishments

Safer than 21% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #29 safest of 32 industry employers in Tennessee.

O'Neal Steel Incoporated_Knoxville (21 employees, TCR 6.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 3.7 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 050100150200250 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate O'Neal Steel Incoporated_Knoxville
O'Neal Steel Incoporated_Knoxville (21 employees, TCR 6.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 3.7

O'Neal Steel Incoporated_Knoxville has fewer employees than the industry median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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
2023 4.3 4.3 1 0 0
2022 9.4 9.4 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423510 · TN · Knoxville

1,299 industry 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 vanex tube corporation 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR TA 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Target Metal Blanking 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Feroleto Steel Company Inc. 6.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE SOUTH TEXAS FARM 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Greenpoint Ag- Gin & Warehouse 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Johnson Pest Control, Inc. 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Obion County Growout 21 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 Patrick Guerin Center 6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR UPMC Passavant (CR) 6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Chicken Livehaul 6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Kipling Service Center-172 6.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Michael J. Wright Construction Co., Inc. at Eglin AFB 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE MCRT Odessa 2 Tenant LLC 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wakefield Plant 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE MCRT Spartanburg Tenant LLC 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: 2023, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.