Telecommunications · Tennessee

SC700 - Knoxville

Knoxville, TN · ~90 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
5.9
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

SC700 - Knoxville runs at 212% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Telecommunications workplace, earning a grade F.

SC700 - Knoxville: 5.9 TCR = 212% of Telecommunications BLS 2.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

SC700 - Knoxville safety composite

SC700 - Knoxville scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 11%), 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

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

SC700 - Knoxville: 4.5 → 8.3 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 8.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.93× in 2018

SC700 - Knoxville's TCR rose 3.8 from 4.5 in 2016 to 8.3 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.93× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237130 · Knoxville, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 5.9 · 212% of ind

  • DART 5.5 DART
  • RANK #22/26
  • PHOTO MFG Energy Services
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~90 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: MFG Energy Services (0.0 TCR gap)

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SC700 - Knoxville in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows SC700 - Knoxville averages 5.9 TCR (212% of the Telecommunications BLS benchmark).

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

SC700 - Knoxville TCR series: 2016=4.5 · 2017=5.1 · 2018=8.3 · BLS 2.8

Where SC700 - Knoxville falls in its industry

1,605 Telecommunications establishments

Safer than 16% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #22 safest of 26 Telecommunications employers in Tennessee.

SC700 - Knoxville (90 employees, TCR 5.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 2.0 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate SC700 - Knoxville
SC700 - Knoxville (90 employees, TCR 5.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 2.0

SC700 - Knoxville has more employees than the Telecommunications median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.0. 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
2018 8.3 5.5 2 1 0
2017 5.1 4.1 5 0 0
2016 4.5 4.5 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237130 · TN · Knoxville

1,605 Telecommunications 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 MFG Energy Services 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR SunTalk 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR apeiron utility construction 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR TCC-Blaine 5.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE West Knox Utility District 90 FTE
STATE-SIZE Merit Construction, Inc. 90 FTE
STATE-SIZE Walker-J-Walker, Inc. 90 FTE
STATE-SIZE FiCom Group 90 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 Whitehouse Lumber Mill 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Giant Food Stores 6111 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 0006 - Hesperia, Ca 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Wildewood Downs Retirement, LLC d/b/a Wildewood Downs Nursing and Rehabilitaiton Center and Assisted 5.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE CC008 - Anaheim- CA 90 FTE
NAT-SIZE United Mail Sorting, Inc. 90 FTE
NAT-SIZE Augusta Nursing and Rehab 90 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Lismore Hotel 90 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: 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.