Excavation contractors · Tennessee

Phillips and Jordan, Inc./Knoxville, TN

Knoxville, TN · ~286 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.3
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Phillips and Jordan, Inc./Knoxville, TN runs at 11% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Excavation contractors workplace, earning a grade A.

Phillips and Jordan, Inc./Knoxville, TN: 0.3 TCR = 11% of Excavation contractors BLS 2.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Phillips and Jordan, Inc./Knoxville, TN safety composite

Phillips and Jordan, Inc./Knoxville, TN scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 98% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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).

B

79/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 98% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

Phillips and Jordan, Inc./Knoxville, TN: 0.0 → 1.0 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 1.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2020

Phillips and Jordan, Inc./Knoxville, TN's TCR rose 1.0 from 0.0 in 2018 to 1.0 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238910 · Knoxville, TN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.3 · 11% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/37
  • PHOTO Denney Excavating Inc.
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~286 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Denney Excavating Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Phillips and Jordan, Inc./Knoxville, TN in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Phillips and Jordan, Inc./Knoxville, TN averages 0.3 TCR (11% of the Excavation contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Phillips and Jordan, Inc./Knoxville, TN TCR series: 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=1 · BLS 2.8

Where Phillips and Jordan, Inc./Knoxville, TN falls in its industry

1,750 Excavation contractors establishments

Safer than 98% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 37 Excavation contractors employers in Tennessee.

Phillips and Jordan, Inc./Knoxville, TN (286 employees, TCR 0.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 0100200300 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Phillips and Jordan, Inc./Knoxville, TN
Phillips and Jordan, Inc./Knoxville, TN (286 employees, TCR 0.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Phillips and Jordan, Inc./Knoxville, TN has more employees than the Excavation contractors median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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
2020 1.0 0.0 3 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238910 · TN · Knoxville

1,750 Excavation contractors 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 Denney Excavating Inc. 0.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Magnolia Energy Services, LLC 0.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Main Office 0.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Summit Drilling LLC 0.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Rogers Group Inc-Knoxville 286 FTE
STATE-SIZE Colgate Tennessee 286 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 120 286 FTE
STATE-SIZE ROANE MEDICAL CENTER 286 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 Independence Pointe 0.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 103962 - WMATA 6 Yellow / Blue Lines 0.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Roundlake, IL -Nationwide Sales Personnel 0.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Atlanta AL 0.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Section 14 - Pellicano 286 FTE
NAT-SIZE Parks and Recreation - Village of Northbrook, IL 286 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kautex Textron Detroit 286 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rolfson Oil 286 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: 2020, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.