TCR, interpreted
Far above average
4.6 avg TCR
State profile · OSHA ITA
Tennessee workplace safety
How 10,743 OSHA-reporting employers across Tennessee compare on workplace injuries, 2016–2024. Average TCR uses the 9,449 establishments with a credible rate (see methodology).
- 10,743
- Employers
- 4.6
- Avg TCR (rated)
- 216,021
- Injuries (all)
- 233
- Fatalities (all)
Tennessee vs all states by OSHA-reporting employer count
Where this state's ITA establishment inventory sits among every tracked state and territory (coverage signal, not a safety ranking)
10,743 16th of 54 higher than 38 of 54 states
States and territories, banded by OSHA ITA reporting employer count
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Source official public datasets · 2026
The state picture
Tennessee's 9,449 rated 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 · rated subset
- 9,449
- rated employers
- 10,743
- all reporting employers
- 216,021
- recordable injuries (all)
Inventory counts and injury/fatality totals cover all 10,743 ITA establishments; the average TCR excludes zero-rate and corrupt-hours filings. See Methodology → Three Populations.
A · 19% B · 14% C · 29% D · 21% F · 18%
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.
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A second cut tells a different story: ranked by rated-subset injury rate alone, Tennessee is #10 of 54. Ranked instead by fatalities per rated employer establishment (same 9,449-employer subset), 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 on the same population 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. The published state average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 4.6 injuries per 100 full-time workers uses the 9,449 establishments with a credible rate (zero-rate and corrupt-hours filings stay in the inventory counts above but are excluded from the average, see methodology).
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 161 of 215| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TK Elevator Nashville | Nashville | Elevator installation conve | A | 1.3 |
| McCoy Construction & Forestry - Nashville | La Vergne | Construction machinery and e | B | 1.3 |
| Befesa Zinc US Inc | Rockwood | Zinc dust reclaiming | A | 1.3 |
| Cabeen Originals LLC | Chattanooga | Millwork, custom architectur | A | 1.3 |
| MARRc, LLC dba Rand Technology | Clinton | Computer peripheral equipmen | B | 1.3 |
| JR Automation Technologies LLC - Nashville, TN | Nashville | Ice crushers, industrial and | A | 1.3 |
| Volunteer Behavioral Health Care Services-Rhea Dayton | Dayton | Mental Health | A | 1.3 |
| Tennessee Rand, Inc. | Chattanooga | Welding equipment manufactur | A | 1.3 |
| CAGE Drywall, Inc. | Hendresonville | Drywall contractors | A | 1.3 |
| Family Health Group, Inc. | Columbia | Family physicians' offices ( | A | 1.3 |
| CCA Corporate | Nashville | - | A | 1.3 |
| Klinke Bros. Ice Cream Co | Memphis | Ice cream manufacturing | A | 1.3 |
| Fabrication Facility | Nashville | Bends, pipe, made from purch | A | 1.3 |
| Fossett Paving Co., LLC | Collierville | Pavement, highway, road, str | A | 1.3 |
| Nashville Office | Nashville | 532490 Other Commercial and | C | 1.3 |
| Barrett Firearms | Christiana | Barrels, gun, manufacturing | A | 1.3 |
| Gould's Houston Levee #28 | Memphis | Beauty salons | B | 1.3 |
| Jefferson Middle School | Oak Ridge | - | C | 1.3 |
| Tuftco Corp | Chattanooga | Tufting machinery for textil | A | 1.3 |
| Vonore - 98 Excellence Way | Vonore | Motor Freight Transportation | A | 1.3 |
| The ICEE Company - La Vergne | La Vergne | Syrup (except fountain) merc | B | 1.3 |
| Lawson Electric Co., Inc. | Hixson | Electric contracting | A | 1.3 |
| 0649 Lowe S of Cleveland Tn | Cleveland | Homecenter | A | 1.3 |
| Memphis Visible | Memphis | Private warehousing and stor | A | 1.3 |
| TNKIN | Kingsport | Warm Air Heating and Air-Con | B | 1.3 |
| AHC Westwood | Decaturville | Skilled nursing facilities | A | 1.3 |
| Team Air Distributing - Nashville | Nashville | Ambulance merchant wholesale | B | 1.3 |
| ABC INOAC Exterior Systems | Livingston | Motor vehicle moldings and e | A | 1.3 |
| TN - Altria | Mt Juliet | General Warehousing and Stor | A | 1.3 |
| Santek Waste Services LLC Corporate | Cleveland | Waste Haulers and Landfill | B | 1.3 |
| Asf 401 | Madison | Furniture stores (e.g., hous | A | 1.3 |
| CLEVELAND4 LLC MTN View Nissan of Cleveland | Mcdonald | Automobile dealers, new only | A | 1.3 |
| Nashville Dry | Lebanon | General freight trucking, lo | A | 1.3 |
| FedEx Supply Chain Cummins MDC2 | Memphis | - | A | 1.3 |
| Protomet - Oak Ridge | Oak Ridge | Machine shops | A | 1.3 |
| Brownsville Plant | Brownsville | Vegetables, frozen, manufact | A | 1.3 |
| Highlands Health and Rehab | Memphis | Skilled nursing facilities | A | 1.3 |
| Granite City Food and Beverage - Franklin | Franklin | Family restaurants, limited- | A | 1.3 |
| Barnard Construction 282 | Gallatin | Sediment control system cons | A | 1.3 |
| CTC | Memphis | Transportation Air Cargo | A | 1.3 |
| Ball Tinplate 024 Chestnut Hill | Dandridge | - | A | 1.3 |
| Propex Chattanooga | Chattanooga | Manmade noncellulosic fibers | A | 1.3 |
| Dixie Roofing, Inc. - Powell | Powell | Sheet metal roofing installa | A | 1.3 |
| Murfreesboro Terminal | Murfreesboro | General freight trucking, lo | A | 1.3 |
| Saint Francis Patient Transpor | Memphis | - | A | 1.3 |
| deGraauw Electric LLC | Nashville | Low voltage electrical work | A | 1.3 |
| Bj Corporation | San Antonio | Janitorial services | A | 1.3 |
| Knoxville Hauling | Knoxville | Garbage collection services | A | 1.3 |
| S09085 - Nashville RRC River Hills | Nashville | - | A | 1.3 |
| DENSO Manufacturing Tennessee, Inc. | Maryville | Motors, starter, for interna | A | 1.3 |
Nationwide states with similar injury rates or employer scale
Two PlainSafetyScore-derived peer sets for Tennessee: nearest states and territories by rated-subset average Total Case Rate and by OSHA-reporting employer inventory. These are cross-state neighborhoods, not the employer list above.
Similar average TCR
Nearest states by rated-subset Total Case Rate (4.6 here).
Similar employer inventory
Nearest states by reporting employer count (10,743 here).
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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainSafetyScore
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.