Surgeons' (except dental) offices (e.g., centers, clinics) · Tennessee

Premier Surgical Associates, PLLC

Knoxville, TN · ~178 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.2
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Premier Surgical Associates, PLLC runs at 138% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Surgeons' (except dental) offices (e.g., centers, clinics) workplace, earning a grade D.

Premier Surgical Associates, PLLC: 5.2 TCR = 138% of Surgeons' (except dental) offices (e.g., centers, clinics) BLS 3.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Premier Surgical Associates, PLLC safety composite

Premier Surgical Associates, PLLC scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 25%), 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).

D

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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%).

Premier Surgical Associates, PLLC held a steady TCR band

Premier Surgical Associates, PLLC's TCR held near 0.3 from 5.4 in 2021 to 5.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 5.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=5.4 · 2024=5.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 621111 · Knoxville, TN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.2 · 138% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #40/46
  • PHOTO KVH General Surgery/…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~178 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: KVH General Surgery/Orthopedics/Pediatrics (0.0 TCR gap)

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Premier Surgical Associates, PLLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Premier Surgical Associates, PLLC averages 5.2 TCR (138% of the Surgeons' (except dental) offices (e.g., centers, clinics) BLS benchmark).

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

Premier Surgical Associates, PLLC TCR series: 2021=5.4 · 2024=5.1 · BLS 3.8

Where Premier Surgical Associates, PLLC falls in its industry

2,836 Surgeons' (except dental) offi establishments

Safer than 25% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #40 safest of 46 Surgeons' (except dental) offi employers in Tennessee.

Premier Surgical Associates, PLLC (178 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.1 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 0200400600800 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Premier Surgical Associates, PLLC
Premier Surgical Associates, PLLC (178 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.1

Premier Surgical Associates, PLLC has more employees than the Surgeons' (except dental) offices (e.g., median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.1. 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 5.1 0.0 9 0 0
2021 5.4 5.4 0 6 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

621111 · TN · Knoxville

2,836 Surgeons' (except dental) offices (e.g., centers, clinics) 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 KVH General Surgery/Orthopedics/Pediatrics 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR MOUNTAIN VIEW FAMILY PRACTICE 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sutter Bay Medical Foundation (30561) 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dyersburg Clinic Corporation 5.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE The Pictsweet Company - Corporate Office 178 FTE
STATE-SIZE K252-M001 178 FTE
STATE-SIZE Channel 178 FTE
STATE-SIZE Royal Building Products - Bristol 178 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 Sandia Construction, INC. 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Lourdes Hospital 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Jet Aviation Scottsdale 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Bellemarque LLC 5.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ledgewood Rehabilitation & Skilled Nursing Center 178 FTE
NAT-SIZE Atlanta Processing Center 178 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cardinal Health - RGH Enterprises, Inc. 178 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sagepoint Senior Services 178 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, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.