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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
Sheraton Memphis Downtown Hotel Memphis Hotel management services (i A 0.7
BASF Corporation Plant 1 Chattanooga Latex rubber, synthetic, man A 0.7
HES K12 at Robertson County Schools Springfield - A 0.7
Sodexo at Hospital Corp of America Hq Nashville Food Service Contractors A 0.7
Lendlease - Communities Nashville Construction management, mul A 0.7
ER2 Memphis Recyclable materials (e.g., A 0.7
APP of Tennessee HM, PLLC Brentwood 813920 Professional Organiza A 0.7
GSK Knoxville. (SMRU80331) Knoxville Motor Freight Transportation A 0.7
Chattanooga Marriott Chattanooga Hotels, resort, without casi A 0.7
Simon Roofing and Sheet Metal Corp - Nashville Fairview Roofing contractors A 0.7
BASF Engineering Plastics Compounding Sparta Thermoplastic resins and pla A 0.7
Atlas Coatings Inc Memphis Painting (except roof) contr A 0.7
Lynskey Performance Products, LLC Chattanooga Bicycles and parts manufactu A 0.7
Servall, LLC - Termite/Pest Control/Gutters/Restoration Paris Roofing contractors A 0.7
Altium Packaging - Memphis Memphis Bottles, plastics, manufactu A 0.7
Masyan Express, Inc Smyrna Trucking, general freight, l A 0.7
582025 704965_memphis 9355 Triumph Circle_wgh Bartlett Residential Intellectual and A 0.7
CEVA Logistics NCR Nashville (16800626) Mt. Juliet General warehousing and stor A 0.7
FedEx 3851 AIRWAYS BLVD Memphis Courier and Express Delivery A 0.7
Schneider Electric Smyrna Power switching equipment ma A 0.7
Dixie Industry A Division of Columbus McKinnon Chattanoog Iron forgings made from purc A 0.7
Nashville - VSHP Nashville Health insurance carriers, d D 0.7
Central Fire Restoration and Cleaning, LLC Brentwood Janitorial services A 0.7
Rogers Group, Inc.-Southern Middle TN Construction Lawrenceburg Road construction A 0.7
KTC 50042 Knoxville Knoxville Tanker, fuel, local A 0.7
Eastman Kingsport Site Kingsport Cellulosic fibers and filame A 0.7
Royal Sterilization Systems New Tazewell Sterilizers, hospital and su A 0.7
Old Hickory Buildings, LLC Murfreesboro Novelties, not specified els A 0.7
Menasha Packaging Company-Jackson Jackson Kit assembling and packaging A 0.7
Island at Pigeon Forge Pigeon Forge Hotels and Motels A 0.7
The Pictsweet Company - Corporate Office Bells Vegetables, frozen, manufact A 0.7
44511k - Piney Flats Dc Piney Flats Confectionery Merchant Whole A 0.7
Store 0688 JOHNSON CITY Johnson City Department stores (except di A 0.7
The Chemours Company FC, LLC - Johnsonville New Johnsonville Color pigments, inorganic (e A 0.7
Doss Brothers Construction, Inc. Lawrenceburg Addition, alteration and ren A 0.7
University of Tennessee Medica Knoxville - A 0.7
Expeditors International of WA, Inc. - BNA Nashville Logistics management consult D 0.7
Knoxville Lab Knoxville Plasma Lab A 0.7
CAM Industrial Solutions @ Eastman Chemical Company TNO Kingsport Chemical (except petrochemic A 0.7
Spring Hill Spring Hill Apparel stores, used clothin A 0.7
Driv Automotive Smyrna Warehouse clubs (i.e., food A 0.7
2133 Gallatin Sheet Plant Gallatin CORRUGATED AND SOLID FIBER B A 0.7
Danfoss Power Solutions II - Cleveland, TN Cleveland Private warehousing and stor A 0.7
State Trial Courts Nashville Executive and Legislative Of A 0.7
Main Office Oakland Foundation, building, poured A 0.7
Charleston - 1520 Lauderdale Memorial Highway Charleston Motor Freight Transportation A 0.7
Nashville Resource Center - PNG Nashville Natural Gas Distribution B 0.7
BESCO Corporate Office Knoxville Low voltage electrical work A 0.7
Titus - Humboldt Humboldt General freight trucking, lo A 0.7
APP of Tennessee ED, PLLC Brentwood 813920 Professional Organiza A 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.