Other Airport Operations · Tennessee

Tys United Ground Express-Tys

Knoxville, TN · ~49 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
20.1
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Tys United Ground Express-Tys runs at 446% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Other Airport Operations workplace, earning a grade F.

Tys United Ground Express-Tys: 20.1 TCR = 446% of Other Airport Operations BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Tys United Ground Express-Tys safety composite

Tys United Ground Express-Tys scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 2%), 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

14/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 20.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
F 19.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.1

2023→2024

Tys United Ground Express-Tys injury rate improved

Tys United Ground Express-Tys's TCR fell 1.1 from 20.6 in 2023 to 19.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 20.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.97× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=20.6 · 2024=19.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 488119 · Knoxville, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 20.1 · 446% of ind

  • DART 19.5 DART
  • RANK #33/35
  • PHOTO 6957-LFT
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~49 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 6957-LFT (0.0 TCR gap)

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Tys United Ground Express-Tys in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Tys United Ground Express-Tys averages 20.1 TCR (446% of the Other Airport Operations BLS benchmark).

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

Tys United Ground Express-Tys TCR series: 2023=20.6 · 2024=19.5 · BLS 4.5

Where Tys United Ground Express-Tys falls in its industry

1,555 Other Airport Operations establishments

Safer than 2% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #33 safest of 35 Other Airport Operations employers in Tennessee.

Tys United Ground Express-Tys (49 employees, TCR 20.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 0200400600800 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Tys United Ground Express-Tys
Tys United Ground Express-Tys (49 employees, TCR 20.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Tys United Ground Express-Tys has fewer employees than the Other Airport Operations median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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
2024 19.5 19.5 8 0 0
2023 20.6 18.0 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

488119 · TN · Knoxville

1,555 Other Airport Operations 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 6957-LFT 20.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR MSYCI0745 MSY - USPS 20.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Unifi Aviation Services : GTF - Great Falls 20.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Unifi Aviation Services : CHO - Charlottesville VA 19.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Natural Gas Utility District of Hawkins County 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE THOMAS BUILDERS INC 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE Carter Group, LLC 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sain Construction Co. 49 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 Apex Deliveries Inc. 20.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Ashland Health Services 20.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Gothenburg Senior Living LLC 20.1 TCR
NAT-TCR OR OPS, INC. dba Oak Ridge Health and Rehabilitation 20.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Txpam - Pampa 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Azlak - Lake Havasu 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Flkey - Key West 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE NFI Interactive Logistics LLC-620 LOWES BLVD 49 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: 2024, 2023. 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.