Plumbing and heating contractors · Tennessee

Pipe Wrench LLC

Knoxville, TN · ~94 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.2
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Pipe Wrench LLC runs at 256% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Plumbing and heating contractors workplace, earning a grade F.

Pipe Wrench LLC: 7.2 TCR = 256% of Plumbing and heating contractors BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Pipe Wrench LLC safety composite

Pipe Wrench LLC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 20%), 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

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% 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

−6.0

2023→2024

Pipe Wrench LLC injury rate improved

Pipe Wrench LLC's TCR fell 6.0 from 10.2 in 2023 to 4.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 10.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.58× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=10.2 · 2024=4.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238220 · Knoxville, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.2 · 256% of ind

  • DART 4.2 DART
  • RANK #107/117
  • PHOTO Superior Mechanical …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~94 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Superior Mechanical Services, Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Pipe Wrench LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Pipe Wrench LLC averages 7.2 TCR (256% of the Plumbing and heating contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Pipe Wrench LLC TCR series: 2023=10.2 · 2024=4.2 · BLS 2.8

Where Pipe Wrench LLC falls in its industry

5,793 Plumbing and heating contracto establishments

Safer than 20% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #107 safest of 117 Plumbing and heating contracto employers in Tennessee.

Pipe Wrench LLC (94 employees, TCR 7.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 Pipe Wrench LLC
Pipe Wrench LLC (94 employees, TCR 7.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Pipe Wrench LLC has more employees than the Plumbing and heating contractors median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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 4.2 4.2 3 0 0
2023 10.2 10.2 10 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238220 · TN · Knoxville

5,793 Plumbing and heating 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 Superior Mechanical Services, Inc 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Comfort Air of Grand Junction LLC 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Legacy Air, Inc. Phoenix 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Armstrong Comfort Solutions - Butler 7.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Harpeth Valley Utilities District 94 FTE
STATE-SIZE SOS-Construction Services 94 FTE
STATE-SIZE Acuff Enterprises, Inc 94 FTE
STATE-SIZE Long Foundation Drilling Co. 94 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 B.C. Stone, Inc. 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR NEAPCO Drivelines 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Saver Group,Inc dba Berea Save-A-Lot 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Police Department 7.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lexington Court Care Center 94 FTE
NAT-SIZE Willowcrest Health Services 94 FTE
NAT-SIZE Continental Mirrored Graphics, Inc. 94 FTE
NAT-SIZE Haselwood Volkswagen Hyundai 94 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.