Drywall contractors · Tennessee

Proffitt & Sons, Inc.

Knoxville, TN · ~32 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.5
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Proffitt & Sons, Inc. runs at 160% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Drywall contractors workplace, earning a grade D.

Proffitt & Sons, Inc.: 4.5 TCR = 160% of Drywall contractors BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Proffitt & Sons, Inc. safety composite

Proffitt & Sons, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 33%), 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

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% 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

−2.7

2023→2024

Proffitt & Sons, Inc. injury rate improved

Proffitt & Sons, Inc.'s TCR fell 2.7 from 5.8 in 2023 to 3.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 5.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.7× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=5.8 · 2024=3.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238310 · Knoxville, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.5 · 160% of ind

  • DART 3.1 DART
  • RANK #28/32
  • PHOTO P & B Partitions, Inc.
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~32 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: P & B Partitions, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Proffitt & Sons, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Proffitt & Sons, Inc. averages 4.5 TCR (160% of the Drywall contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Proffitt & Sons, Inc. TCR series: 2023=5.8 · 2024=3.1 · BLS 2.8

Where Proffitt & Sons, Inc. falls in its industry

1,613 Drywall contractors establishments

Safer than 38% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #28 safest of 32 Drywall contractors employers in Tennessee.

Proffitt & Sons, Inc. (32 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 3.4 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Proffitt & Sons, Inc.
Proffitt & Sons, Inc. (32 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Proffitt & Sons, Inc. has fewer employees than the Drywall contractors median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.4. 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 3.1 3.1 0 1 0
2023 5.8 5.8 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238310 · TN · Knoxville

1,613 Drywall 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 P & B Partitions, Inc. 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Drywall 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Duggan and Marcon 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR ANR Insulation LLC DBA King Insulation 4.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE L & H Gin 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hallsdale-Powell Utility District (Operations Building) 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Harvest Construction Company LLC 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Clinard Civil Contracting 32 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 STR0243 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Conway Medical Center 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR DFW area 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR US Chemical Storage 4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE TK Cups - Sorgs 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Crown Electric, Inc. 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Riverside Peninsula Surgery Center 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sun Printing LLC 32 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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