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 62 of 215| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jcpa- Convenient Care, Mri and Endoscopy | Jackson | Family physicians' offices ( | D | 5.2 |
| S03288 - Lewisburg Hauling | Lewisburg | - | D | 5.2 |
| Hyatt Place Nashville/Northeast | Hendersonville | - | D | 5.2 |
| Choctaw Transportation Company | Dyersburg | Marine construction | D | 5.2 |
| Topre America Corporation- TN Assembly | Smyrna | Air-conditioners, motor vehi | C | 5.2 |
| Labels - Clarksville | Clarksville | Printing, gravure (except bo | D | 5.2 |
| 500185100 - Middle Tennessee St. Univ. | Murfreesboro | Food Services | D | 5.2 |
| NMP | Memphis | Freight Transportation | C | 5.1 |
| Select Specialty Hospital - Nashville, LLC | Nashville | Hospitals, specialty (except | D | 5.1 |
| Sodexo at Austin Peay Resident Dining | Clarksville | Food Service Contractors | D | 5.1 |
| B26 Willow Ridge Center | Maynardville | Healthcare Facility | B | 5.1 |
| Tenneco Automotive | 715 Beechcroft Rd Suite 500 | Filters (e.g., air, engine o | C | 5.1 |
| 2807-1202 | Greeneville | Homecenter | D | 5.1 |
| 3234 | Rogersville | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | D | 5.1 |
| 025-00426 | Cordova | Supermarkets and Other Groce | D | 5.1 |
| MARTIN_1372013 | Martin | Mail and Parcel Delivery | C | 5.1 |
| Big Lots Store #1235 GREENEVILLE, TN | Greeneville | Retail Other | D | 5.1 |
| 2807-0693 | Sevierville | Homecenter | D | 5.1 |
| Mt. Juliet, TN | Mt. Juliet | - | C | 5.1 |
| Chattanooga Cha | Chattanooga | Trucking, general freight, l | C | 5.1 |
| Cfc Recycleing | Tullahoma | Scrap materials (e.g., autom | F | 5.1 |
| 835-Pottery Barn Pb West Town Mall | Knoxville | Furniture Merchant Wholesale | F | 5.1 |
| Tiny Town | Clarksville | Apparel stores, used clothin | D | 5.1 |
| James Meat Company Inc | Cookeville | Manufacturer Sausage | D | 5.1 |
| MDS Foods, Inc. - Tullahoma Location | Tullahoma | Cheese Manufacturing | D | 5.1 |
| Onward Manufacturing Company | Dickson | Barbecues, grills, and brazi | D | 5.1 |
| 264 | Dickson | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | D | 5.1 |
| Putnam County Executive Office | Cookeville | Executive and legislative of | D | 5.1 |
| Sta, LLC | Rogersville | Paper Bag and Coated and Tre | D | 5.1 |
| TN 2030 E Polymer Dr | Chattanooga | - | F | 5.1 |
| Knoxville - 013 | Knoxville | Tire Distributor | F | 5.1 |
| Ripley Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center | Ripley | Skilled nursing facilities | B | 5.1 |
| Select Specialty Hospital - Knoxville, Inc | Knoxville | Hospitals, specialty (except | D | 5.1 |
| YAPP USA Automotive Systems Inc. | Gallatin | Blow molding machinery for p | D | 5.1 |
| Tnlou - Knoxville Air Gateway | Louisville | Couriers and Express Deliver | B | 5.1 |
| Tnnas24 Ascension Saint Thomas Midtown Hosp | Nashville | General Medical and Surgical | B | 5.1 |
| Campbell Clinic - Collierville Clinic | Collierville | Orthopedic physicians' offic | D | 5.1 |
| TULLAHOMA_1385139 | Tullahoma | Mail and Parcel Delivery | C | 5.1 |
| Goodwill Memphis Imc. | Memphis | Department stores (except di | D | 5.1 |
| Waupaca Foundry - Etowah | Etowah | Facilities (except computer | D | 5.1 |
| The Fresh Market 132 | Johnson City | Supermarkets and Other Groce | D | 5.1 |
| Meade Equipment - Chattanooga | Chattanooga | Construction & Forrestry Equ | F | 5.1 |
| Tennesee - Royal Chemical | Chattanooga | Detergents (e.g., dishwashin | D | 5.1 |
| LG Electronics | Clarksville | Water heaters (including non | D | 5.1 |
| 695 | Madison | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | D | 5.1 |
| Chattanooga, TN | Chatanooga | Trucking, specialized freigh | C | 5.1 |
| Construction Office | Murfreesboro | Pavement, highway, road, str | D | 5.1 |
| 381940318 | Memphis | - | B | 5.1 |
| TriGreen Equipment Murfreesboro | Murfreesboro | Power equipment stores, outd | D | 5.1 |
| HTC Chattanooga | Chattanooga | Tanker trucking (e.g., chemi | C | 5.1 |
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.