Employer · Tennessee

University of Tennessee Medica

Knoxville, TN · ~86 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.7
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

University of Tennessee Medica runs at 15% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade A.

University of Tennessee Medica: 0.7 TCR = 15% of industry BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

University of Tennessee Medica safety composite

University of Tennessee Medica scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 95% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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

64/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 95% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% 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%).

Rising injury rate

University of Tennessee Medica: 0.0 → 2.7 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 2.7 TCR · DART/TCR 3.18× in 2024

University of Tennessee Medica's TCR rose 2.7 from 0.0 in 2018 to 2.7 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 3.18× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561720 · Knoxville, TN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.7 · 15% of ind

  • DART 2.1 DART
  • RANK #8/119
  • PHOTO Beebe Public Sch Mai…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~86 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Beebe Public Sch Main Campus (0.0 TCR gap)

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University of Tennessee Medica in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows University of Tennessee Medica averages 0.7 TCR (15% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

University of Tennessee Medica TCR series: 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2024=2.7 · BLS 4.5

Where University of Tennessee Medica falls in its industry

4,064 industry establishments

Safer than 95% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 119 industry employers in Tennessee.

University of Tennessee Medica (86 employees, TCR 0.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 3.2 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate University of Tennessee Medica
University of Tennessee Medica (86 employees, TCR 0.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 3.2

University of Tennessee Medica has more employees than the industry median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.2. 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
2024 2.7 2.1 5 0 0
2023 - - 0 0 0
2021 - - 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561720 · TN · Knoxville

4,064 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 Beebe Public Sch Main Campus 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR SODEXO AT CAMPBELL WILLARD JANITORIAL 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Shelby Baptist Medical Center 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Sacramento Bee 0.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Holston Electric Cooperative 86 FTE
STATE-SIZE BurWil Construction Company, INC. 86 FTE
STATE-SIZE 353 Distribution Parkway, Collierville TN 38017 86 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nickell Company LLC 86 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 Mountaire 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Beebe Public Sch Main Campus 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Cresco Labs - Pittsburgh (Penn Ave.) 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 044c - Sales Admin - Healthcare 0.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE The Lutheran Home at Hollidaysburg 86 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fleet_Potelco 86 FTE
NAT-SIZE 3262 - LA Glassell Park 86 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hussmann Services Corporation - Phoenix 86 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.