Construction machinery and equipment repair and maintenance services · Tennessee

SMC-W Knox

Knoxville, TN · ~45 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
2.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

SMC-W Knox runs at 112% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Construction machinery and equipment repair and maintenance services workplace, earning a grade C.

SMC-W Knox: 2.4 TCR = 112% of Construction machinery and equipment repair and maintenance services BLS 2.1 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

SMC-W Knox safety composite

SMC-W Knox scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 55% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 45%), 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

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.1 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% 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

SMC-W Knox: 0.0 → 1.1 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 6.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.47× in 2023

SMC-W Knox's TCR rose 1.1 from 0.0 in 2016 to 1.1 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2020 at 6.5 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.47× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 811310 · Knoxville, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.4 · 112% of ind

  • DART 1.1 DART
  • RANK #28/67
  • PHOTO 09 Grand Island
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~45 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 09 Grand Island (0.0 TCR gap)

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SMC-W Knox in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows SMC-W Knox averages 2.4 TCR (112% of the Construction machinery and equipment repair and maintenance services BLS benchmark).

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

SMC-W Knox TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=2.8 · 2018=4.1 · 2019=1.8 · 2020=6.5 · 2021=1.3 · 2022=1.2 · 2023=1.1 · BLS 2.1

Where SMC-W Knox falls in its industry

2,560 Construction machinery and equ establishments

Safer than 55% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

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 67 Construction machinery and equ employers in Tennessee.

SMC-W Knox (45 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 2.7 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 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate SMC-W Knox
SMC-W Knox (45 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 2.7

SMC-W Knox has more employees than the Construction machinery and equipment rep median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.7. 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 1.1 1.1 1 0 0
2022 1.2 1.2 1 0 0
2021 1.3 0.0 1 0 0
2020 6.5 6.5 3 0 0
2019 1.8 1.8 1 0 0
2018 4.1 4.1 2 0 0
2017 2.8 2.8 1 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

811310 · TN · Knoxville

2,560 Construction machinery and equipment repair and maintenance 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 09 Grand Island 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR D.A. Collins Maintenance Shop 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fallsway Equipment - Akron 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR S&D Coffee & Tea-Service Division South 2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE MEC Headquarters 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Advanced Power & Lighting, LLC - 230 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hollingsworth Paving Inc. 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hawkins Asphalt Paving, LLC 45 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 851 Pine St 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR RED-Rochester, LLC 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Exxel Outdoors, LLC 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR MS Fire Protection Inc 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Silver Springs Construction, LLC 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE CDL Electric - Plate Work Manufacturing 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Courtyard Hamilton 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Naugatuck Ambulance, Inc. 45 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.