Pest control services, agricultural · Tennessee

Waynes Knoxville

Knoxville, TN · ~30 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.4
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Waynes Knoxville runs at 230% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Pest control services, agricultural workplace, earning a grade F.

Waynes Knoxville: 10.4 TCR = 230% of Pest control services, agricultural BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Waynes Knoxville safety composite

Waynes Knoxville scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 76% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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).

D

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

−14.9

2023→2024

Waynes Knoxville injury rate improved

Waynes Knoxville's TCR fell 14.9 from 17.8 in 2023 to 2.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 17.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=17.8 · 2024=2.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 115112 · Knoxville, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.4 · 230% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #5/5
  • PHOTO Gold Flora Corp
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~30 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Gold Flora Corp (0.1 TCR gap)

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Waynes Knoxville in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Waynes Knoxville averages 10.4 TCR (230% of the Pest control services, agricultural BLS benchmark).

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

Waynes Knoxville TCR series: 2023=17.8 · 2024=2.9 · BLS 4.5

Where Waynes Knoxville falls in its industry

221 Pest control services, agricul establishments

Safer than 12% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 5 Pest control services, agricul employers in Tennessee.

Waynes Knoxville (30 employees, TCR 10.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.8 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 0100200300400 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Waynes Knoxville
Waynes Knoxville (30 employees, TCR 10.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.8

Waynes Knoxville has fewer employees than the Pest control services, agricultural median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.8. 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 2.9 0.0 0 1 0
2023 17.8 14.3 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

115112 · TN · Knoxville

221 Pest control services, agricultural 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 Gold Flora Corp 10.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hillendale Services, LLC 10.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Howard Farmers Coop 10.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR West Coast Ag Services, Inc. 10.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Cornerstone Restoration Services, LLC 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE W.E. O'Neil Construction Co. of Tennessee 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE KCS 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Newport Paving & Ready Mix 30 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 Closets by design 10.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Artcobell 10.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Springfield Welding & Mfg Co Inc. 10.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Early Childhood Education Center 10.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE SEH - Duluth 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Organic Valley McMinnville Creamery 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE KERMAN 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Commercial Air and Refrigeration, LLC 30 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.