Community colleges · Tennessee

Pellissippi State Community College

Knoxville, TN · ~1,593 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.5
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Pellissippi State Community College runs at 34% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Community colleges workplace, earning a grade A.

Pellissippi State Community College: 0.5 TCR = 34% of Community colleges BLS 1.4 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Pellissippi State Community College safety composite

Pellissippi State Community College scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 91% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

69/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 91% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% 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%).

Pellissippi State Community College held a steady TCR band

Pellissippi State Community College's TCR held near 0.2 from 0.1 in 2016 to 0.3 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 0.8 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.32× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.1 · 2017=0.6 · 2018=0.8 · 2019=0.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 611210 · Knoxville, TN AT/BELOW-IND · LARGE

Grade A · TCR 0.5 · 34% of ind

  • DART 0.1 DART
  • RANK P91
  • PHOTO Dowagiac Campus
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~1,593 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Dowagiac Campus (0.0 TCR gap)

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Pellissippi State Community College in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Pellissippi State Community College averages 0.5 TCR (34% of the Community colleges BLS benchmark).

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

Pellissippi State Community College TCR series: 2016=0.1 · 2017=0.6 · 2018=0.8 · 2019=0.3 · BLS 1.4

Where Pellissippi State Community College falls in its industry

127 Community colleges establishments

Safer than 91% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Pellissippi State Community College (1,593 employees, TCR 0.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 400 employees and a TCR of 1.4 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 01,0002,0003,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Pellissippi State Community College
Pellissippi State Community College (1,593 employees, TCR 0.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 400 employees and a TCR of 1.4

Pellissippi State Community College has more employees than the Community colleges median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.4. 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
2019 0.3 0.1 2 0 0
2018 0.8 0.8 5 0 0
2017 0.6 0.3 4 0 0
2016 0.1 0.1 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611210 · TN · Knoxville

127 Community colleges 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 Dowagiac Campus 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Heartland Community College- Normal 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR New Mexico Military Institute 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR IECC - District Office 0.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Ballad Health 1,586 FTE
STATE-SIZE Williamson Medical Center 1,611 FTE
STATE-SIZE FORT SANDERS REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER 1,569 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bristol Regional Medical Center 1,620 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 Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR AP Services 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Rosemount Analytical 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Mercy Support Services 0.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Johnston Health 1,593 FTE
NAT-SIZE IES Residential, Inc. 1,593 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Medical Center of Aurora 1,593 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mercy Medical Center East Campus 1,592 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: 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.