General Freight Trucking, Long-Distance, Truckload · Tennessee

Tidewater Transit-Kingsport

Kingsport, TN · ~55 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
5.3
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Tidewater Transit-Kingsport runs at 117% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical General Freight Trucking, Long-Distance, Truckload workplace, earning a grade C.

Tidewater Transit-Kingsport: 5.3 TCR = 117% of General Freight Trucking, Long-Distance, Truckload BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Tidewater Transit-Kingsport safety composite

Tidewater Transit-Kingsport scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 23%), 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

38/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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%).

TCR Δ

−4.7

2018→2022

Tidewater Transit-Kingsport injury rate improved

Tidewater Transit-Kingsport's TCR fell 4.7 from 7.1 in 2018 to 2.5 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2018 at 7.1 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.47× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=7.1 · 2020=6.2 · 2022=2.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484121 · Kingsport, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 5.3 · 117% of ind

  • DART 2.5 DART
  • RANK #107/128
  • PHOTO WI018 - WI-Sturtevan…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~55 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: WI018 - WI-Sturtevant-Operating Center (0.0 TCR gap)

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Tidewater Transit-Kingsport in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Tidewater Transit-Kingsport averages 5.3 TCR (117% of the General Freight Trucking, Long-Distance, Truckload BLS benchmark).

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

Tidewater Transit-Kingsport TCR series: 2018=7.1 · 2020=6.2 · 2022=2.5 · BLS 4.5

Where Tidewater Transit-Kingsport falls in its industry

3,252 General Freight Trucking, Long establishments

Safer than 23% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #107 safest of 128 General Freight Trucking, Long employers in Tennessee.

Tidewater Transit-Kingsport (55 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Tidewater Transit-Kingsport
Tidewater Transit-Kingsport (55 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Tidewater Transit-Kingsport has fewer employees than the General Freight Trucking, Long-Distance, median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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
2022 2.5 2.5 1 0 0
2020 6.2 6.2 3 0 0
2018 7.1 7.1 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484121 · TN · Kingsport

3,252 General Freight Trucking, Long-Distance, Truckload employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 152 employers in Kingsport, 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 WI018 - WI-Sturtevant-Operating Center 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nissan - Somerset DDS. (SMRU11347) 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR MLDS 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Equity Transportation 5.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Alabama GP Vaccination Department 55 FTE
STATE-SIZE GP Production (Pikeville) 55 FTE
STATE-SIZE Water Department 55 FTE
STATE-SIZE Charleston Site 55 FTE
CITY-NEAR Eastman Kingsport Site 7,258 FTE
CITY-NEAR Holston Valley Medical Center 1,733 FTE
CITY-NEAR Eastman Chemical Company Kinsport TN- BSL 1,206 FTE
CITY-NEAR BLUE RIDGE MEDICAL MANAGEMENT CORPORATION - VA 1,073 FTE
NAT-TCR Milgard Manufacturing Simi Valley CA 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR DES-ODFL 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Mkg of Radford 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR FFTY-Natomas Warehouse/Offices 5.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Illing Company-Germantown 55 FTE
NAT-SIZE Simon Roofing and Sheet Metal - Youngstown 55 FTE
NAT-SIZE Textron Aviation - McCauley 55 FTE
NAT-SIZE Goodwill Industries of the Valleys Works Radford Job Campus (02) 55 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: 2022, 2020, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.