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 59 of 215| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MECO | Greeneville | Barbecues, grills, and brazi | D | 5.3 |
| Telos Global, LLC | Caryville | Job stampings, automotive, m | C | 5.3 |
| 476150-Nas-Donelson Sta | Nashville | Mail and Parcel Delivery | C | 5.3 |
| CORT Furniture Nashville, TN | Lavergne | Furniture, residential, rent | F | 5.3 |
| Barker Brothers Waste | Union City | Waste collection services, n | F | 5.3 |
| Brookdale Sevierville | Sevierville | Assisted-living facilities w | D | 5.3 |
| Walker Die Casting | Lewisburg | Aluminum die-casting foundri | D | 5.3 |
| Knox Auto Parts, Nashville | La Vergne | Auto salvage yards (i.e., re | D | 5.3 |
| 2807-1767 | Shelbyville | Homecenter | D | 5.3 |
| Assemblers, Inc | Chattanooga | Athletic equipment and suppl | D | 5.3 |
| 1855-MOSRL019 | Chattanooga | Nursing Care Facilities (Ski | C | 5.3 |
| SC400 - Chattanooga | Chattanooga | Telecommunications | D | 5.3 |
| NovaCopy - Memphis | Memphis | Commercial printing (except | D | 5.3 |
| Plant 4 | Cleveland | Furniture, household-type, u | D | 5.3 |
| Tindell's Halls Locations | Knoxville | Building materials supply de | D | 5.3 |
| Nashville NAS 1 | Nashville | Motor freight carrier, | C | 5.3 |
| Chattanooga 038 | Chattanooga | - | C | 5.3 |
| Wilson Air Center Chattanooga LLC | Chattanooga | Fixed base operators | C | 5.3 |
| Tnnas175 Ascension Saint Thomas River Park Hosp | Mcminnville | General Medical and Surgical | B | 5.3 |
| Carroll County Mayor's Office | Huntingdon | County supervisors' and exec | D | 5.3 |
| Interstate Mechanical Service, LLC | Knoxville | Heating, ventilation and air | D | 5.3 |
| IPS Plumbing Group | Collierville | Bathtubs, plastics, manufact | D | 5.3 |
| Food City Store #774 | Ooltewah | Supermarkets | D | 5.3 |
| Sharp Transit LLC Mt. Juliet TN | Mt.Juliet | General freight trucking, lo | C | 5.3 |
| 472124-Crossville Po | Crossville | Mail and Parcel Delivery | C | 5.3 |
| DC9 | Nashville | - | C | 5.3 |
| Franklin Woods Community Hosp | Johnson City | - | C | 5.3 |
| DCI Donor Services Inc. | Knoxville | Organ donor centers, body | D | 5.3 |
| Abe's Garden Community | Nashville | Assisted-living facilities w | D | 5.3 |
| 10968 | Nashville | Senior Living | D | 5.3 |
| FFD-Hamilton Place (dba Famous Dave`s) | Chattanooga | Full service restaurants | D | 5.3 |
| Rossville Manufacturing Facility | Rossville | Frozen waffles manufacturing | D | 5.3 |
| Richland Industries, LLC | Pulaski | Machine bases, metal, manufa | D | 5.3 |
| 026-00569 | Gallatin | Supermarkets and Other Groce | D | 5.3 |
| 3495 | Clarksville | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | D | 5.3 |
| Cookeville TN FXFE-CJE | Algood | Less Than Truckload General | C | 5.3 |
| White House_1387496 | White House | Mail and Parcel Delivery | C | 5.3 |
| 476160-Nas-Belle Meade Sta | Nashville | Mail and Parcel Delivery | C | 5.3 |
| Nashville TN Office Location | Nashville | Agricultural machinery and e | F | 5.3 |
| Putnam County Local Government | Cookeville | County supervisors' and exec | D | 5.3 |
| CableSouth Construction, LLC | Milan | Utility line (i.e., communic | D | 5.3 |
| Lear Corporation - Morristown | Morristown | Automotive Supplier | C | 5.3 |
| HG839 | Maryville | Homefurnishings stores | D | 5.3 |
| Vanderbilt Tullahoma | Tullahoma | - | D | 5.3 |
| S.B. White Company, Inc. | Johnson City | Mechanical contractors | D | 5.3 |
| Deche Inc | Flintville | Pallets, wood or wood and me | D | 5.3 |
| NovaCopy - Nashville | Nashville | Commercial printing (except | D | 5.3 |
| VWTN | Chattanooga | Air filters, automotive, tru | C | 5.3 |
| 0727 Lowe S of Tullahoma Tn | Tullahoma | Homecenter | D | 5.3 |
| Tidewater Transit-Kingsport | Kingsport | General Freight Trucking, Lo | C | 5.3 |
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.