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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
Memphis, TN - 4949 Tuggle Road Memphis - A 0.7
Pratt(Georgia Box)Inc. Humboldt Boxes, corrugated and solid A 0.7
Five Star Nashville Nashville Janitorial services A 0.7
Crescent Park Corporation - P-1 Memphis Packaging industrial design D 0.7
Nashville TN Millwork Nashville Lumber Plywood Millwork and A 0.7
TMX2445 Chattanooga EXTERMINATING AND PEST CONTR A 0.7
AEDC US TN Arnold AFB TN TN991 Arnold Afb - A 0.7
Gateway - BCBST Chattanooga Health insurance carriers, d D 0.7
4048 Murfreesboro Container Murfreesboro Corrugated and Solid Fiber B A 0.7
NSK Steering Systems Dyersburg Steering columns, automotive A 0.7
Austermiller, Inc. Mount Juliet Roofing contractors A 0.7
Cardinal Health LV3 Lavergne Pharmaceuticals merchant who A 0.7
IES. Inc Gray Printed circuit assemblies m A 0.7
Rogers Group Inc - EMTN Cookeville Pavement, highway, road, str A 0.7
Campbell Construction, Inc. Manchester Placing and tying reinforcin A 0.7
Nashville - Ppd Nashville Paper Converting A 0.7
LEM Chattanooga Chattanooga Transmission and distributio A 0.7
Nashville - BCBST Nashville Health insurance carriers, d D 0.7
Unicoi County Hospital Erwin General medical and surgical A 0.7
Advance Financial Nashville Financial transactions proce D 0.7
Greater Dickson Gas Authority Dickson Gas, natural, distribution B 0.7
Chattanooga Container Chattanooga - A 0.7
Hsp & H, LLC. Memphis Plumbing and heating contrac A 0.7
Arconic Tennessee Operations Alcoa Aluminum foil made by flat r A 0.7
Engineered Medical systems, LLC Bartlett Instruments, mechanical micr A 0.7
Rogers Group Inc. - ETN Knoxville Pavement, highway, road, str A 0.7
Branch 7025 - WP Knoxville Knoxville Automotive Parts A 0.7
Yates Services, LLC @ Nissan NSRC Warehouse Murfreesboro Automobiles assembling on ch A 0.7
GCM, Inc. Memphis Curbs and street gutters, hi A 0.7
FedEx 3131 DEMOCRAT RD Memphis Courier and Express Delivery A 0.7
Hood Container Corporation Waverly Paper (except newsprint, unc A 0.7
Nashville Truck Center Nashville Concrete Block and Brick Man A 0.7
2576-801 Brentwood Psychiatric and Substance Ab A 0.7
Arrow Exterminators Knoxville Knoxville Exterminating services A 0.7
Duro Bag - Jackson Jackson Paper Bag and Coated and Tre A 0.7
Murfreesboro 1 Murfreesboro Used merchandise stores A 0.7
Rutledge Pike Knoxville Road construction A 0.7
Curtis Electric, Inc. Ripley Low voltage electrical work A 0.7
Linde, Inc Memphis TN Memphis Compressed and liquefied ind A 0.7
Industrial Solutions & Connections Selmer Bus bars, electrical conduct A 0.7
Hutton Hotel Nashville Hotel A 0.7
Youth Town of Tennessee, Inc. Pinson Substance abuse facilities, A 0.7
Caris Healthcare Knoxville Home health agencies A 0.7
SRG Global, Inc. Ripley Ripley Electroplating metals and fo A 0.7
Oldcastle OPI - LebanonTN Lebanon Other Concrete Product Manuf A 0.7
Stanley Black&Decker inc. Jackson Precision turned product man A 0.7
Forcum Lannom Contractors, LLC Dyersburg Industrial building (except A 0.7
The Christman Company - Knoxville, TN Knoxville Construction management, com A 0.7
Shelby Electric Company Memphis Low voltage electrical work A 0.7
Humphreys County Utility District Waverly Gas, natural, distribution B 0.7
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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.