Truck tractors, road, merchant wholesalers · Tennessee

Worldwide Equipment - Knoxville Wilbanks

Knoxville, TN · ~71 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.6
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Worldwide Equipment - Knoxville Wilbanks runs at 165% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Truck tractors, road, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Worldwide Equipment - Knoxville Wilbanks: 3.6 TCR = 165% of Truck tractors, road, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Worldwide Equipment - Knoxville Wilbanks safety composite

Worldwide Equipment - Knoxville Wilbanks scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 58% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

56/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% 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

−1.0

2023→2024

Worldwide Equipment - Knoxville Wilbanks injury rate improved

Worldwide Equipment - Knoxville Wilbanks's TCR fell 1.0 from 4.2 in 2023 to 3.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 4.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.43× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=4.2 · 2024=3.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423110 · Knoxville, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 3.6 · 165% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK #20/29
  • PHOTO Premier Truck of Kan…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~71 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Premier Truck of Kansas City (0.0 TCR gap)

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Worldwide Equipment - Knoxville Wilbanks in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Worldwide Equipment - Knoxville Wilbanks averages 3.6 TCR (165% of the Truck tractors, road, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Worldwide Equipment - Knoxville Wilbanks TCR series: 2023=4.2 · 2024=3.1 · BLS 2.2

Where Worldwide Equipment - Knoxville Wilbanks falls in its industry

1,333 Truck tractors, road, merchant establishments

Safer than 58% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #20 safest of 29 Truck tractors, road, merchant employers in Tennessee.

Worldwide Equipment - Knoxville Wilbanks (71 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.3 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 Worldwide Equipment - Knoxville Wilbanks
Worldwide Equipment - Knoxville Wilbanks (71 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.3

Worldwide Equipment - Knoxville Wilbanks has more employees than the Truck tractors, road, merchant wholesale median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.3. 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 3.1 1.6 2 0 0
2023 4.2 4.2 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423110 · TN · Knoxville

1,333 Truck tractors, road, merchant wholesalers 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 Premier Truck of Kansas City 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR ADESA Salt Lake 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4598-RTC FT. WORTH 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 0583 MANHEIM NORTH CAROLINA 6118 MARKET ST 3.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pickwick Electric Cooperative 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pavement Restorations, Inc. 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE Four Star Paving LLC 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE Montgomery County Highway Department 71 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 Bowie 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Sonesta ES Suites Princeton 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Wooster Motor Ways 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR PJF Corp 3.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE E.W. Audet & Sons, Inc. 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sportworks Global LLC 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE May Cabinets Incorporated 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE Silver Ships 71 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.