Ambulance Services · Tennessee

Priority Ambulance - Operations

Knoxville, TN · ~241 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.8
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Priority Ambulance - Operations runs at 336% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Ambulance Services workplace, earning a grade F.

Priority Ambulance - Operations: 12.8 TCR = 336% of Ambulance Services BLS 3.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Priority Ambulance - Operations safety composite

Priority Ambulance - Operations scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 67% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 27%), 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 12.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Priority Ambulance - Operations: 13.6 → 17.6 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 17.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.18× in 2024

Priority Ambulance - Operations's TCR rose 4.0 from 13.6 in 2022 to 17.6 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.18× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 621910 · Knoxville, TN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 12.8 · 336% of ind

  • DART 2.4 DART
  • RANK #17/28
  • PHOTO Vital Operations
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 64 inj
  • SIZE ~241 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Vital Operations (0.0 TCR gap)

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Priority Ambulance - Operations in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Priority Ambulance - Operations averages 12.8 TCR (336% of the Ambulance Services BLS benchmark).

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

Priority Ambulance - Operations TCR series: 2022=13.6 · 2023=7 · 2024=17.6 · BLS 3.8

Where Priority Ambulance - Operations falls in its industry

976 Ambulance Services establishments

Safer than 27% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 8.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #17 safest of 28 Ambulance Services employers in Tennessee.

Priority Ambulance - Operations (241 employees, TCR 12.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 8.3 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 0200400600 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Priority Ambulance - Operations
Priority Ambulance - Operations (241 employees, TCR 12.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 8.3

Priority Ambulance - Operations has more employees than the Ambulance Services median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 8.3. 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 17.6 2.4 29 1 0
2023 7.0 0.0 13 0 0
2022 13.6 9.9 22 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

621910 · TN · Knoxville

976 Ambulance Services 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 Vital Operations 12.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Main - 001 12.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hampton Roads Operations 12.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR PriorityOne 12.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Chickamauga Lock Replacement Project 241 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rossville Manufacturing Facility 241 FTE
STATE-SIZE fischer USA 241 FTE
STATE-SIZE United Enertech Corp 241 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 Spring Arbor of Williamsburg 12.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Zingerman's Bakehouse, Inc. 12.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Marion 12.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Dundee Resort Development LLC DBA Arapahoe Basin Ski Area 12.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Weiss-Aug Surgical Products 241 FTE
NAT-SIZE D & H Masonry, INC 241 FTE
NAT-SIZE Henry Ford Brigitte Harris Cancer Paviliion 241 FTE
NAT-SIZE Richfield Mn - 3297 241 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, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.