Drywall and related building materials distributor · Tennessee

Rocky Top Knoxville

Knoxville, TN · ~26 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.1
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Rocky Top Knoxville runs at 413% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Drywall and related building materials distributor workplace, earning a grade F.

Rocky Top Knoxville: 9.1 TCR = 413% of Drywall and related building materials distributor BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Rocky Top Knoxville safety composite

Rocky Top Knoxville scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 1%), 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

18/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

DART rate
F 19.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Rocky Top Knoxville: 3.5 → 19.9 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 19.9 TCR · DART/TCR 2.19× in 2024

Rocky Top Knoxville's TCR rose 16.4 from 3.5 in 2022 to 19.9 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2.19× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423310 · Knoxville, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.1 · 413% of ind

  • DART 19.9 DART
  • RANK #27/29
  • PHOTO OrePac Building Prod…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~26 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: OrePac Building Products - Ontario (0.0 TCR gap)

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Rocky Top Knoxville in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Rocky Top Knoxville averages 9.1 TCR (413% of the Drywall and related building materials distributor BLS benchmark).

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

Rocky Top Knoxville TCR series: 2022=3.5 · 2023=3.8 · 2024=19.9 · BLS 2.2

Where Rocky Top Knoxville falls in its industry

1,225 Drywall and related building m establishments

Safer than 14% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #27 safest of 29 Drywall and related building m employers in Tennessee.

Rocky Top Knoxville (26 employees, TCR 9.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 41 employees and a TCR of 4.2 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 020406080100120 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Rocky Top Knoxville
Rocky Top Knoxville (26 employees, TCR 9.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 41 employees and a TCR of 4.2

Rocky Top Knoxville has fewer employees than the Drywall and related building materials d median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.2. 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 19.9 19.9 5 0 0
2023 3.8 3.8 1 0 0
2022 3.5 3.5 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423310 · TN · Knoxville

1,225 Drywall and related building materials distributor 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 OrePac Building Products - Ontario 9.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Woodson Lumber & Hardware, Inc. - Bryan 9.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 8153 DULUTH DIST CENTER MILLWORK GA 9.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 5801 9.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Buy Sod - Nashville 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tobacco Pride 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tennessee Farms 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE CEMC-Springfield 26 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 Inspired Senior Living of Las Vegas 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Lydick-Hooks Roofing Co. of Lubbock, Inc. 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Nyle Systems LLC 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Manassas Va - 201 9.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE GTS Everett 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lone Star Austin 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Commonwealth Lynchburg 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Milford, Ct 26 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.

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

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