Employer · Tennessee

Univ of Tennessee

Knoxville, TN · ~122 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.7
Avg TCR
3.0
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Univ of Tennessee runs at 189% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade D.

Univ of Tennessee: 5.7 TCR = 189% of industry BLS 3.0 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Univ of Tennessee safety composite

Univ of Tennessee scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 27%), 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

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% 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

−6.9

2022→2024

Univ of Tennessee injury rate improved

Univ of Tennessee's TCR fell 6.9 from 11.5 in 2022 to 4.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 11.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.27× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=11.5 · 2023=0.9 · 2024=4.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 722310 · Knoxville, TN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.7 · 189% of ind

  • DART 1.5 DART
  • RANK #101/133
  • PHOTO LSG Sky Chefs Chicago
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~122 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: LSG Sky Chefs Chicago (0.0 TCR gap)

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Univ of Tennessee in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Univ of Tennessee averages 5.7 TCR (189% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

Univ of Tennessee TCR series: 2022=11.5 · 2023=0.9 · 2024=4.5 · BLS 3.0

Where Univ of Tennessee falls in its industry

6,952 industry establishments

Safer than 27% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #101 safest of 133 industry employers in Tennessee.

Univ of Tennessee (122 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Univ of Tennessee
Univ of Tennessee (122 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Univ of Tennessee has more employees than the industry median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 4.5 1.5 6 0 0
2023 0.9 0.0 1 0 0
2022 11.5 11.5 1 10 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

722310 · TN · Knoxville

6,952 industry 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 LSG Sky Chefs Chicago 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR BAPTIST HEALTH-FT SM 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Higley Unified School District 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR MOUNT ST JOSEPH UNIV 5.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE 001 Memphis TN Barnhart Northeast Inc 122 FTE
STATE-SIZE 001 Memphis TN Barnhart Crane and Rigging LLC 122 FTE
STATE-SIZE NAPP Greeneville - 011 122 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mt. Pleasant, TN - 27 122 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 West Memphis Custodial 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Baptist Health-Ft Sm 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Higley Unified School District 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 6332 Crystal River 5.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Melville Vending 122 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6669 Antelope 122 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6663 Baldwin Park 122 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6662 Thousand Oaks 122 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, 2022. 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.