Blinds (e.g., mini, venetian, vertical), all materials, manufacturing · Tennessee

Shades Unlimited, Inc. Knoxville Warehouse

Knoxville, TN · ~118 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Shades Unlimited, Inc. Knoxville Warehouse runs at 196% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Blinds (e.g., mini, venetian, vertical), all materials, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Shades Unlimited, Inc. Knoxville Warehouse: 6.5 TCR = 196% of Blinds (e.g., mini, venetian, vertical), all materials, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Shades Unlimited, Inc. Knoxville Warehouse safety composite

Shades Unlimited, Inc. Knoxville Warehouse scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 14%), 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

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% 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

Shades Unlimited, Inc. Knoxville Warehouse: 3.7 → 5.8 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 11.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.68× in 2023

Shades Unlimited, Inc. Knoxville Warehouse's TCR rose 2.1 from 3.7 in 2019 to 5.8 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2020 at 11.2 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.68× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 337920 · Knoxville, TN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.5 · 196% of ind

  • DART 4.4 DART
  • RANK P14
  • PHOTO Kenney Manufacturing…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~118 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Kenney Manufacturing Company (0.1 TCR gap)

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Shades Unlimited, Inc. Knoxville Warehouse in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Shades Unlimited, Inc. Knoxville Warehouse averages 6.5 TCR (196% of the Blinds (e.g., mini, venetian, vertical), all materials, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Shades Unlimited, Inc. Knoxville Warehouse TCR series: 2019=3.7 · 2020=11.2 · 2022=5.1 · 2023=5.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Shades Unlimited, Inc. Knoxville Warehouse falls in its industry

59 Blinds (e.g., mini, venetian, establishments

Safer than 14% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Shades Unlimited, Inc. Knoxville Warehouse (118 employees, TCR 6.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 144 employees and a TCR of 3.1 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 05001,0001,500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Shades Unlimited, Inc. Knoxville Warehouse
Shades Unlimited, Inc. Knoxville Warehouse (118 employees, TCR 6.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 144 employees and a TCR of 3.1

Shades Unlimited, Inc. Knoxville Warehouse has fewer employees than the Blinds (e.g., mini, venetian, vertical), median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.1. 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 5.8 4.4 4 0 0
2022 5.1 5.1 4 0 0
2020 11.2 7.5 3 0 0
2019 3.7 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

337920 · TN · Knoxville

59 Blinds (e.g., mini, venetian, vertical), all materials, manufacturing 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 Kenney Manufacturing Company 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR lumenomics Manufacturing Facility and Experience Center 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Roller Building 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dometic US Blind Systems 6.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Performance Contractors, Inc. - Eastman-Kingsport 118 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jolly Roofing & Contracting Nashville Office 118 FTE
STATE-SIZE Concrete Form Erectors 118 FTE
STATE-SIZE Berry Global 118 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 Universal Arquati 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR High Reach Company - Tampa 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Serra Stone Corporation 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Cadman- Port of Portland 6.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE VLS Marine Services Port Aurthur 118 FTE
NAT-SIZE MAU at Kimberly-Clark Hendersonville 118 FTE
NAT-SIZE IL.BOLIN.4 - Ricoh Americas Holdings, Inc 118 FTE
NAT-SIZE Varenna 118 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, 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.