State profile · OSHA ITA
Tennessee workplace safety
How 10,743 OSHA-reporting employers across Tennessee compare on workplace injuries, 2016–2024.
- 10,743
- Employers
- 4.6
- Avg TCR
- 216,021
- Injuries
- 233
- Fatalities
The state picture
Tennessee's reporting employers average 4.6 recordable injuries per 100 workers, 1.7 times the ~2.7 all-industry private-sector norm.
- 4.6
- avg TCR · per 100 workers
- 10,743
- employers reporting
- 216,021
- recordable injuries
- 233
- worker fatalities
State average reflects each state's industry mix. Sort the table below by each employer's own grade against its industry benchmark.
18% of Tennessee's reporting establishments earn an F and 19% an A, each measured against its own industry benchmark, not the state line. These grades are a transparent derived index, not an official OSHA rating; see the Methodology for the exact formula.
Where Tennessee ranks among states
54 states & territories by avg TCRTennessee's average TCR of 4.6 is lower than 83% of states, a state average reflects industry mix as much as workplace safety.
A second cut tells a different story: ranked by injury rate alone, Tennessee is #10 of 54. Ranked instead by fatalities per employer establishment, it's #53 of 54, a 43-place swing. A state can run a moderate everyday injury rate while its rarer, most severe incidents cluster differently; the two metrics measure different things and shouldn't be read as interchangeable.
How Tennessee Workplaces Compare
Tennessee hosts 10,743 employer establishments currently reporting to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. These are not small shops: federal rules require ITA submission from workplaces with 250+ employees in any industry, plus workplaces with 20+ employees in the roughly 60 NAICS codes classified as high-hazard (construction, manufacturing, healthcare, warehousing, agriculture, and others). Across this Tennessee cohort, workers have logged 216,021 recordable injuries, producing a state average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 4.6 injuries per 100 full-time workers per year during 2016–2024.
The state has recorded 233 workplace fatalities in the reporting window, which is tracked separately from non-fatal injury counts because fatal events have their own investigation trail under 29 CFR 1904.39. Reading state-level TCR requires context: the headline figure is driven by a state's industry mix. A state with a heavy construction, logging, or meatpacking footprint will mechanically post higher TCR than a state dominated by finance or professional services, even when individual employers are equally well-managed. That is why the employer table below sorts each establishment by its own TCR and letter grade, against the BLS benchmark for its specific industry, not against the state average.
For jobseekers, relocators, investors, and local safety professionals, state-level pages function as an entry point: use the grade-sorted list to spot the safest and highest-risk employers in Tennessee, then click through to an individual establishment for its year-by-year injury, illness, DART, and fatality trajectory. Compare multiple years before drawing conclusions, a single outlier year can reflect a specific event, whereas a sustained pattern across reporting cycles is a more reliable risk signal. All data comes directly from employer-submitted OSHA Form 300A summaries. State OSHA plans in 22 states operate their own enforcement programs in parallel, but the injury data above is harmonized through the federal ITA system.
Employers in Tennessee, by injury rate
Page 148 of 215| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oak Ridge Utility District | Oak Ridge | Distribution of natural gas | D | 1.8 |
| 676276 | Knoxville | Landscaping Services | A | 1.8 |
| Embassy Suites Nashville Airport | Nashville | Alpine skiing facilities wit | B | 1.8 |
| Cfp Tn Knoxville | Knoxville | - | B | 1.8 |
| CAST Transportation - Tennessee Terminal | Kingston | Flatbed trucking, long-dista | A | 1.8 |
| 170 Collierville Tn | Collierville | General Warehousing and Stor | A | 1.8 |
| JC Curtis Construction Co., LLC | Chattanooga | Industrial building (except | B | 1.8 |
| Tri-State Drilling LLC | Chattanooga | Core drilling and test borin | B | 1.8 |
| CrossDock | Memphis | Bar made by extruding purcha | B | 1.8 |
| Cookeville DC - Cookeville TN | Cookeville | General warehousing and stor | A | 1.8 |
| Nashville Plant | Madison | Linen supply services | C | 1.8 |
| Chattem, Inc. | Chattanooga | Analgesic preparations manuf | B | 1.8 |
| Unit #2529 | Farragut | Retail | B | 1.8 |
| TAI Maryville TN | Maryville | Warehousing and storage, gen | A | 1.8 |
| North Knoxville Medical Center | Powell | - | A | 1.8 |
| Hexpol Compounding | Dyersburg | Custom compounding (i.e., bl | B | 1.8 |
| Dyersburg (IP) | Dyersburg | Metal Stamping | B | 1.8 |
| TN02-MEM-MEMPHIS | Bartlett | MANUFACTURER MEDICAL DEVICES | B | 1.8 |
| Ben Lomand Connect (Outside Plant) | Mcminnville | Long-distance telephone carr | F | 1.8 |
| Arvin Sango | Henderson | Exhaust systems and parts, a | A | 1.8 |
| Hood Container Nashville | Lebanon | Corrugated Box Mfg | B | 1.8 |
| Competition Cams | Memphis | Drive shafts and half shafts | A | 1.8 |
| VICAM, Inc. | Manchester | Polyester fibers and filamen | B | 1.8 |
| Oak Ridge | Oak Ridge | - | B | 1.8 |
| Jimmy T. Woods | Memphis | Trucking, general freight, l | A | 1.8 |
| Erwin Utilities Authority | Erwin | Electric power distribution | D | 1.8 |
| 0726 Clarksville Tn | Clarksville | Home Centers | B | 1.8 |
| Trulite Glass and Aluminum Solutions | Knoxville | Insulating glass, sealed uni | B | 1.8 |
| Smith Douglas Nashville | Franklin | For-sale builders (i.e., bui | A | 1.8 |
| Corporate Place | Chattanooga | Pails, plastics, manufacturi | B | 1.8 |
| Herc Rentals 9309 | Nashville | Construction machinery and e | D | 1.8 |
| AHC Lexington | Lexington | Nursing homes | A | 1.8 |
| Center Line Electric, Inc. | Bells | Electrical work | B | 1.8 |
| Fillauer Companies Inc. | Chattanooga | Prosthetic appliances and su | B | 1.8 |
| TRW Automotive-Lebanon | Lebanon | Manufacturing | A | 1.8 |
| Blue Ridge Medical Management Corporation - TN | Johnson City | Physicians' (except mental h | A | 1.8 |
| Dal-Tile 658 Dickson | Dickson | Floor tile, ceramic, manufac | B | 1.8 |
| Purity Zinc Metals LLC | Clarksville | Metal powder and flake nonfe | B | 1.7 |
| Silver Angels-Greene | Greeneville | Home health care agencies | A | 1.7 |
| Southern Adventist University | Collegedale | Academies, college or univer | D | 1.7 |
| The Hardin County Bank | Savannah | Financial transactions proce | F | 1.7 |
| Tennessee Tractor, LLC - Jackson | Jackson | Agricultural machinery and e | C | 1.7 |
| Igt Solutions | Knoxville | Customer service call center | B | 1.7 |
| S.M. Lawrence | Nashville | HVAC (heating, ventilation a | B | 1.7 |
| Service Electric Company | Chattanooga | Electricity generating plant | B | 1.7 |
| 108 Kingsport, Tn | Kingsport | Family Clothing Stores | B | 1.7 |
| WireMasters - Columbia | Columbia | Wiring supplies merchant who | B | 1.7 |
| Blalock Lumber Company | Sevierville | Bricks, concrete, manufactur | B | 1.7 |
| Lallemand American Yeast Sales - Memphis TN Branch | Memphis | Yeast merchant wholesalers | B | 1.7 |
| Sole Supports, Inc. Hohenwald | Hohenwald | Arch supports, orthopedic, m | B | 1.7 |
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
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What Tennessee's safety record means for you
Tennessee averages a TCR of 4.6 - about 1.7× the ~2.7 national private-sector norm. A state average hides wide employer-by-employer variation.
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State averages use the credible-subset mean across reporting establishments; they are statistical summaries, not regulatory assessments.
Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.