T-shirts, outerwear, made in apparel knitting mills · Tennessee

Volunteer Knitwear Corp

New Tazewell, TN · ~115 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Volunteer Knitwear Corp runs at 135% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical T-shirts, outerwear, made in apparel knitting mills workplace, earning a grade D.

Volunteer Knitwear Corp: 4.5 TCR = 135% of T-shirts, outerwear, made in apparel knitting mills BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Volunteer Knitwear Corp safety composite

Volunteer Knitwear Corp scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 12%), 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

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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

Volunteer Knitwear Corp: 3.2 → 5.9 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 6.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.95× in 2021

Volunteer Knitwear Corp's TCR rose 2.7 from 3.2 in 2018 to 5.9 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 6.7 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.95× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 315190 · New Tazewell, TN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.5 · 135% of ind

  • DART 4.2 DART
  • RANK P15
  • PHOTO Brooks Brothers Grou…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~115 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Brooks Brothers Group - Garland (0.3 TCR gap)

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Volunteer Knitwear Corp in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Volunteer Knitwear Corp averages 4.5 TCR (135% of the T-shirts, outerwear, made in apparel knitting mills BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-09-26

Volunteer Knitwear Corp TCR series: 2018=3.2 · 2019=2 · 2020=6.7 · 2021=5.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Volunteer Knitwear Corp falls in its industry

13 T-shirts, outerwear, made in a establishments

Safer than 15% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Volunteer Knitwear Corp (115 employees, TCR 4.5) among 7 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 171 employees and a TCR of 2.1 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 8 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 050100150200250 0246 Average employees Total Case Rate Knit TextilesSchool Apparel, Inc.Andari Fashion Inc.Worldwide Protective ProductsL&W APPAREL CO INC dba LEGACY ATHLETICCarolina Apparel Group, Inc.Brooks Brothers Group - GarlandVolunteer Knitwear Corp
Volunteer Knitwear Corp (115 employees, TCR 4.5) among 7 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 171 employees and a TCR of 2.1

Volunteer Knitwear Corp has fewer employees than the T-shirts, outerwear, made in apparel kni median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.1. 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 5.9 4.2 7 0 0
2020 6.7 3.8 7 0 0
2019 2.0 0.0 2 0 0
2018 3.2 3.2 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

315190 · TN · New Tazewell

13 T-shirts, outerwear, made in apparel knitting mills employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 20 employers in New Tazewell, 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 Brooks Brothers Group - Garland 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR L&W APPAREL CO INC dba LEGACY ATHLETIC 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Knit Textiles 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR School Apparel, Inc. 2.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE AHC-MCKENZIE 115 FTE
STATE-SIZE HIROTEC Manufacturing America 115 FTE
STATE-SIZE Manchester Tank Crossville 115 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2807-2866 115 FTE
CITY-NEAR England Furniture 1,185 FTE
CITY-NEAR England, Inc. 1,120 FTE
CITY-NEAR Clayton Giles 270 FTE
CITY-NEAR Janco Inc. 155 FTE
NAT-TCR Avila Construction Company 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Budney Overhaul & Repair, LTD 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Key Mechanical Livermore 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Virginia Gay Hospital 4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Avera Brady Health and Rehab 115 FTE
NAT-SIZE Monroeville Rehabilitaiton and Wellness Center 115 FTE
NAT-SIZE Uptown Grocery Co - 9515 115 FTE
NAT-SIZE 252502-Det-College Park Sta 115 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. 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.