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 168 of 215| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ermco Der | Dyersburg | Trucking, general freight, l | A | 1.1 |
| Oak Grove Gin & Warehouse, LLC | Somerville | Cotton ginning | A | 1.1 |
| Asf 445 | Clarksville | Furniture stores (e.g., hous | A | 1.1 |
| Spectrum Adhesives Inc | Memphis | Adhesives (except asphalt, d | A | 1.1 |
| Erwin | Erwin | Lumber Plywood Millwork and | A | 1.1 |
| Xanitos EVS at CHS Clarksville | Clarksville | Janitorial | A | 1.1 |
| Pollock Printing Company | Nashville | Print shops, lithographic (o | A | 1.1 |
| GCS, Inc. | Greeneville | Intellectual and development | A | 1.1 |
| TRG Halls | Halls | Boxes, corrugated and solid | A | 1.1 |
| DeGarA APP, PLLC | Brentwood | 813920 Professional Organiza | B | 1.1 |
| Plaskolite Memphis, LLC | Memphis | Sheet, plastics, unlaminated | A | 1.1 |
| Ring Container Technologies: Oakland/HQ | Oakland | Bottles, plastics, manufactu | A | 1.1 |
| Goody Products - Memphis DC. (SMRU80376) | Memphis | Motor Freight Transportation | A | 1.1 |
| Sessions Paving Company | Nashville | Asphalt coating and sealing, | A | 1.1 |
| DeRoyal Technologies | New Tazewell | Surgical supplies (except me | A | 1.1 |
| FXI, Inc. - Chattanooga | Chattanooga | Urethane foam products manuf | A | 1.1 |
| Craneworks, Inc - Nash | Lavergne | Crane rental with operator | A | 1.1 |
| Smoky Mountain Lodge | Sevierville | 623220 Residential Mental He | A | 1.1 |
| Lincare - Knoxville (0013671) | Knoxville | Oxygen equipment rental (i.e | B | 1.1 |
| Scepter Inc | Waverly | Aluminum ingot, secondary sm | A | 1.1 |
| Maristone of Franklin | Franklin | Senior citizens' homes witho | A | 1.1 |
| Parallon Enterprises, LLC | Nashville | Administrative management se | A | 1.1 |
| American Display and Fixtures 4500 | Chattanooga | Lessors of nonresidential bu | B | 1.1 |
| Unit #1081 | Franklin | Retail | A | 1.1 |
| Omni Visions Nashville Foster Care | Nashville | - | A | 1.1 |
| Carlex Tennessee Assembly | La Vergne | Glass, automotive, made from | A | 1.1 |
| Northridge | Memphis | Footwear merchant wholesaler | A | 1.1 |
| Covoro Mining Solutions LLC | Memphis | Cyanides manufacturing | A | 1.1 |
| Shelby County Jail East | Memphis | Not required | A | 1.1 |
| Abercrombie Radiology | Knoxville | Radiologists' offices (e.g., | A | 1.1 |
| SOS-Construction Services | Franklin | Commercial building construc | A | 1.1 |
| Big Lots Store #1052 MORRISTOWN, TN | Morristown | Retail Other | A | 1.1 |
| 4813-48130009-Freeman Expo Nashville | Nashville | Convention Services | A | 1.1 |
| 1362 | Maryville | Supermrkts & other grocery s | A | 1.1 |
| Smithville DFM | Smithville | Trucking, general freight, l | A | 1.1 |
| SRG Global- Ripley | Ripley | Chrome plating metals and me | A | 1.1 |
| Accredo Health Group, Inc. Memphis, TN 1620 | Memphis | Mail-order houses | A | 1.1 |
| TN - Siemens | Memphis | General warehousing and stor | A | 1.1 |
| Cooper Standard Surgoinsville | Surgoinsville | Boiler tubes, wrought, made | A | 1.1 |
| 248 - Knoxville Fas | Knoxville | Professional and commercial | A | 1.1 |
| Sharecare Operating Company, Inc. - BAM Franklin, TN | Franklin | Internet broadcasting | D | 1.1 |
| SEC Auto Transport, Inc. | Shelbyville | Automobile carrier trucking, | A | 1.1 |
| 1704 Lowe S of Union City Tn | Union City | Homecenter | A | 1.1 |
| AESSEAL | Rockford | Gasket, packing, and sealing | A | 1.1 |
| Big Lots Store #5178 Dyersburg, TN | Dyersburg | Retail Other | A | 1.1 |
| Bernhard MCC, LLC - Tennessee | Nashville | Plumbing, Heating, and Air-C | A | 1.1 |
| Daltile / Dickson PDC | Dickson | Tile, structural clay (excep | A | 1.1 |
| Lavergne Tn Depot | La Vergne | Commercial Bakeries | A | 1.1 |
| MTN View Nissan of Chattanooga | Chattanooga | Automobile dealers, new only | A | 1.1 |
| Precision Millwrights & Consultants, Inc. | Sevierville | Industrial building (except | A | 1.1 |
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.