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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.

Tennessee grade distribution 10,743 graded establishments · width = share

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 TCR

Tennessee's average TCR of 4.6 is lower than 83% of states, a state average reflects industry mix as much as workplace safety.

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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

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Employer CityIndustryGradeAvg TCR
HEXPOL Dyersburg Dyersburg Sheeting, rubber, manufactur B 1.7
John J. Campbell Co., Inc. Memphis Roofing contractors B 1.7
Office Tennessee 300 Nashville Ready-mix concrete manufactu B 1.7
IATRIC Manufacturing Solutions Morristown Filters, paper, made from pu B 1.7
Friend Tire Company - Memphis, TN Memphis Tires, new, motor vehicle, m B 1.7
TES Victory Lane Facilities Millington Hazardous waste disposal fac B 1.7
Distribution Center Piperton Gloves, rubber (e.g., electr B 1.7
Mt Joliet Mt Joliet General warehousing and stor A 1.7
Sodexo at Nashville Sounds Nashville Food Service Contractors B 1.7
Rock City Mechanical Company, LLC Nashville Mechanical contractors B 1.7
D3730 Lebanon General Freight Trucking A 1.7
Blalock Equipment Corp. Sevierville General freight trucking, lo A 1.7
HES K12 at Williamson County School District Franklin - A 1.7
Knoxville Loudon Loudon Garbage collection services B 1.7
TN - Gray, 1794 Old Gray Station Rd Gray Cable and Other Subscription F 1.7
Permobil, Inc. Lebanon Medical equipment merchant w B 1.7
3495-10D8005 Memphis Drugs, Proprietaries and Sun B 1.7
Wyatt Johnson Volkswagon Clarksvile Automobile dealers, new only A 1.7
32502 Humboldt General Warehouse and Storag A 1.7
KLS Komatsu Chattanooga General warehousing and stor A 1.7
Loudon DSD Facility Loudon General-line groceries merch B 1.7
Jackson Jackson Confectionery Merchant Whole B 1.7
H.G. Hill Store #54 Springfield Grocery stores A 1.7
S09978 - Nashville North Collection Madison - B 1.7
Sodexo at Fisk University Nashville Food Service Contractors B 1.7
Inteplast Group, BOPP Films Morristown Acrylic film and unlaminated B 1.7
Cleveland Office Ocoee Cleveland Garbage collection services B 1.7
Union City Union City Apparel stores, used clothin A 1.7
UT Medical Group DBA University Clinical Health Memphis Healthcare A 1.7
Nisus Corp LLC Rockford Pesticides manufacturing B 1.7
Wm 97 Ripley - A 1.7
Coleman Tractor Company - Nashville Nashville Agricultural machinery and e B 1.7
AHC Humboldt Humboldt Nursing homes A 1.7
Holiday Inn Express Knoxville East Knoxville Traveler Accomdations B 1.7
JDG-ODFL Jackson General Freight Trucking, lo A 1.7
Ross store 675 Murfreesboro Retail Store A 1.7
Electrolux Springfield Cooking Plant Springfield Ovens, freestanding househol B 1.7
TN.KNOXV.20 - Ricoh Usa, Inc. Knoxville Office Equipment B 1.7
Southeastern Coatings, Inc Memphis Drywall contractors B 1.7
LaVergne Lavergne Dried foods (e.g., fruits, m B 1.7
Stones River Central Office Murfreesboro Residential Intellectual and A 1.7
Lee Company Franklin Plumbing and heating contrac B 1.7
0721 Antioch Antioch Home Centers A 1.7
Spring City Site Spring City Tn Oriented strandboard (OSB) m B 1.7
TMS Jackson Jackson Blast furnace slag processin B 1.7
Newport - Tubes & Cores - C324 Newport Tubes and Cores B 1.7
1354 Spring Hill Supermrkts & other grocery s A 1.7
Mayfield - Morristown Morristown DAIRY DISTRIBUTION B 1.7
Sodexo at Siskin Hospital Chattanooga Food Service Contractors B 1.6
National Distribution & Contracting, Inc Lavergne Appliances, surgical, mercha B 1.6
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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.

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.