Charter bus services (except scenic, sightseeing) · Tennessee

Premier Transportation, LLC

Knoxville, TN · ~79 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
8.1
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Premier Transportation, LLC runs at 180% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Charter bus services (except scenic, sightseeing) workplace, earning a grade D.

Premier Transportation, LLC: 8.1 TCR = 180% of Charter bus services (except scenic, sightseeing) BLS 4.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Premier Transportation, LLC safety composite

Premier Transportation, LLC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 8%), 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

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% 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

−1.6

2019→2023

Premier Transportation, LLC injury rate improved

Premier Transportation, LLC's TCR fell 1.6 from 3.2 in 2019 to 1.5 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 20.0 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.19× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=3.2 · 2020=15.9 · 2021=20.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=1.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485510 · Knoxville, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 8.1 · 180% of ind

  • DART 1.5 DART
  • RANK P8
  • PHOTO Motorcoach Services …
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~79 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Motorcoach Services Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Premier Transportation, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Premier Transportation, LLC averages 8.1 TCR (180% of the Charter bus services (except scenic, sightseeing) BLS benchmark).

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

Premier Transportation, LLC TCR series: 2019=3.2 · 2020=15.9 · 2021=20 · 2022=0 · 2023=1.5 · BLS 4.5

Where Premier Transportation, LLC falls in its industry

169 Charter bus services (except s establishments

Safer than 8% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Premier Transportation, LLC (79 employees, TCR 8.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.8 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 0100200300400 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Premier Transportation, LLC
Premier Transportation, LLC (79 employees, TCR 8.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.8

Premier Transportation, LLC has more employees than the Charter bus services (except scenic, sig median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.8. 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
2023 1.5 1.5 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 20.0 20.0 3 0 0
2020 15.9 15.9 3 0 0
2019 3.2 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485510 · TN · Knoxville

169 Charter bus services (except scenic, sightseeing) 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 Motorcoach Services Inc 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR FES - Jeffersonville 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lorenz Bus 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Capital Trailways/Montgomery 7.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE GP Cleanout (Loretto) 79 FTE
STATE-SIZE Middle Tennessee Electric Membership Corporation (Franklin) 79 FTE
STATE-SIZE Walker General Contractors 79 FTE
STATE-SIZE Blaine Construction Corporation Corporate 79 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 Haselwood Chevrolet Buick GMC 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Vancouver Outlet 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Plummer 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Merced Northview 8.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE RW Connection 79 FTE
NAT-SIZE John C. Leo & Son, LLC 79 FTE
NAT-SIZE American Fire 79 FTE
NAT-SIZE Clarendale St. Peters Operations, LLC 79 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.