Tar paper, building and roofing, made in paper mills · Tennessee

TAMKO - Knoxville

Knoxville, TN · ~43 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

TAMKO - Knoxville runs at 90% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Tar paper, building and roofing, made in paper mills workplace, earning a grade C.

TAMKO - Knoxville: 3.0 TCR = 90% of Tar paper, building and roofing, made in paper mills BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

TAMKO - Knoxville safety composite

TAMKO - Knoxville scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 89% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 38%), 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).

C

59/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 89% 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

TAMKO - Knoxville: 3.9 → 5.5 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 6.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2021

TAMKO - Knoxville's TCR rose 1.6 from 3.9 in 2016 to 5.5 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2018 at 6.2 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322121 · Knoxville, TN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.0 · 90% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #11/14
  • PHOTO Thilmany Mill
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~43 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Thilmany Mill (0.0 TCR gap)

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TAMKO - Knoxville in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows TAMKO - Knoxville averages 3.0 TCR (90% of the Tar paper, building and roofing, made in paper mills BLS benchmark).

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

TAMKO - Knoxville TCR series: 2016=3.9 · 2017=0 · 2018=6.2 · 2019=2.3 · 2020=0 · 2021=5.5 · BLS 3.3

Where TAMKO - Knoxville falls in its industry

317 Tar paper, building and roofin establishments

Safer than 38% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 14 Tar paper, building and roofin employers in Tennessee.

TAMKO - Knoxville (43 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 146 employees and a TCR of 2.2 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 05001,0001,5002,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate TAMKO - Knoxville
TAMKO - Knoxville (43 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 146 employees and a TCR of 2.2

TAMKO - Knoxville has fewer employees than the Tar paper, building and roofing, made in median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.2. 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
2021 5.5 0.0 2 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 2.3 2.3 1 0 0
2018 6.2 4.2 1 2 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 3.9 1.9 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322121 · TN · Knoxville

317 Tar paper, building and roofing, made in paper mills 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 Thilmany Mill 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pratt Paper GA, LLC 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Clearwater Paper Lewiston CPD 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Biron Mill 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Mountain Electric Coop 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Parent Company, Inc. 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE BluSky - Bartlett 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE American Constructors, Inc. 43 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 Madison Downtown AC 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR The Scruggs Company 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Clearwater Paper Lewistion PPD 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR jackson and sons inc. 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Klever Innovations 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4769-562-Pottery Barn 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Accurate Insulation #859 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4769-665-Pottery Barn 43 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.