Hospitals, general medical and surgical · Tennessee
Parkwest Medical Center
Knoxville, TN · ~1,504 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.
- D
- Poor Safety Record
- 10.6
- Avg TCR
- 7.5
- Industry avg
- 0
- Fatalities
The verdict
Parkwest Medical Center runs at 141% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Hospitals, general medical and surgical workplace, earning a grade D.
- D
- Poor Safety Record
- 10.6
- avg TCR · per 100 workers
- 7.5
- industry benchmark (BLS)
- 352
- recordable injuries tracked
Grade compares Parkwest Medical Center's OSHA Total Case Rate of 10.6 to the Hospitals, general medical and surgical BLS benchmark of 7.5 (141% of benchmark) across 4 years of Form 300A filings (2016–2024). <a href="/methodology">See methodology</a> for reporting-limitation caveats.
Injury rate over time
Parkwest Medical Center's yearly Total Case Rate, against the 7.5 industry benchmark.
Where Parkwest Medical Center falls in its industry
7,181 Hospitals, general medical and establishmentsSafer than 6% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.0.
Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #172 safest of 177 Hospitals, general medical and employers in Tennessee.
Trend analysis for Parkwest Medical Center
Between 2021 and 2024, Parkwest Medical Center's Total Case Rate improved from 10.5 to 7.8 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers, a 26% decrease across 3 years of OSHA reporting.
The safest year on record was 2024, at a TCR of 7.8, while 2022 saw the highest rate, at 15.9, a spread of 8.1 points between the best and worst reporting years. That's a wide swing relative to the establishment's overall rate, worth checking the year-by-year table below for whether a single severe year is driving the average, rather than a sustained trend.
Summed across those 4 reporting years, Parkwest Medical Center recorded 352 total injuries and illnesses, with no fatalities reported in any of those years. Readers comparing establishments should weigh the 4-year trend above alongside establishment size, since a larger workforce naturally accumulates more raw incidents even at a lower per-100-worker rate.
Verify This Employer with OSHA
The 352 injuries, 197 illnesses shown on this page for Parkwest Medical Center are sourced from its own 4 years of mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source, name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.
Verify on OSHA Establishment SearchSource: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 622110 - Hospitals, general medical and surgical.
DART Rate, Transparent Calculation (2024)
What is the DART rate formula?
DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.
49 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 2,518,671 hours worked = 3.89 DART
Methodology: 29 CFR 1904, OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping
Cross-Validating Context, Establishment vs Industry vs State
| Benchmark | TCR | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Parkwest Medical Center (this establishment) | 10.56 | OSHA ITA Form 300A, 4-year avg |
| Hospitals, general medical and surgical industry avg | 7.50 | BLS IIF, NAICS 622110 |
| Tennessee state avg (all industries) | 4.09 | OSHA ITA, state-level rollup |
Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program
Reportable Incident Timeline
Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by Parkwest Medical Center to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.
- 2024: 98 reportable incidents · 97 injuries, 1 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2023: 98 reportable incidents · 89 injuries, 9 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2022: 202 reportable incidents · 105 injuries, 97 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2021: 151 reportable incidents · 61 injuries, 90 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) - inspection case-number records
Year-by-Year Safety Data
| Year | TCR | DART | Injuries | Illnesses | Fatalities |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 7.8 | 3.9 | 97 | 1 | 0 |
| 2023 | 8.1 | 3.9 | 89 | 9 | 0 |
| 2022 | 15.9 | 4.0 | 105 | 97 | 0 |
| 2021 | 10.5 | 3.8 | 61 | 90 | 0 |
What this grade means for you
Use this grade as a relative read on Parkwest Medical Center's reported OSHA injury record versus its Hospitals, general medical and surgical peers, not a verdict on whether any single site is safe today.
- At 141% of the Hospitals, general medical and surgical benchmark, Parkwest Medical Center reports more injuries than typical peers, ask specifically how the employer is reducing them. Know your rights
- Judge this record against the wider Hospitals, general medical and surgical sector, where injury rates vary widely, before comparing it in isolation. See the industry
- Grades reflect 2016–2024 filings; check the latest establishment record straight from OSHA, or look up a different employer. Look up another
Safety grades reflect employers' self-reported OSHA Form 300A filings from 2016 to 2024 and can lag current conditions. A grade is not a guarantee that any specific workplace is safe or unsafe today. See our methodology and disclaimer.
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Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.