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
Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more states. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count and share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
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 63 of 215| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sweetwater Utilities | Sweetwater | Distribution of electric pow | F | 5.1 |
| WHPINC | Murfreesboro | Plumbing contractors | D | 5.1 |
| Reinhart - Knoxville - 0570 | Louisville | - | F | 5.1 |
| TN - Memphis - 5395 Distriplex Farms Dr - The American Bottling Company | Memphis | Other Grocery and Related Pr | F | 5.1 |
| HG1078 | Sevierville | Homefurnishings stores | D | 5.1 |
| TriGreen Equipment Murfreesboro | Murfreesboro | Power equipment stores, outd | D | 5.1 |
| TriGreen Equipment Fayetteville | Fayetteville | Power equipment stores, outd | D | 5.1 |
| Unit #0581 | Columbia | Retail | D | 5.1 |
| 742 | Kingsport | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | D | 5.1 |
| 0353 - Southeast Memphis Tn Whse | Memphis | Warehouse clubs (i.e., food | D | 5.1 |
| Karr Transportation | Lavergne | Motor freight carrier, gener | C | 5.1 |
| HTC Chattanooga | Chattanooga | Tanker trucking (e.g., chemi | C | 5.1 |
| City of Knoxville Bus and Other Motor Vehicle Transit Systems | Knoxville | Bus line, local (except mixe | C | 5.1 |
| Goggin Eaton | Shelbyville | Warehousing and storage, gen | C | 5.1 |
| Home Health Care and Hospice | Johnson City | Home health care agencies | C | 5.1 |
| Construction | Sunbright | Pole line construction | D | 5.1 |
| PRI of East TN, Inc. | Knoxville | Pavement, highway, road, str | D | 5.1 |
| Rusken Packaging Jackson TN | Jackson | Boxes, corrugated and solid | D | 5.1 |
| Dura Automotive Systems, LLC | Lawrenceburg | Glass, automotive, made from | D | 5.1 |
| Thorough Built LLC- Chattanooga | Chattanooga | Sheet metal work (except sta | D | 5.1 |
| Kimball | Kimball | Waterworks and municipal wat | D | 5.1 |
| VWGoA SERDC | Lenior City | Assembly plants, passenger c | D | 5.1 |
| Paddywax, LLC Factory | Nashville | Candles manufacturing | D | 5.1 |
| Consolidated Pipe & Supply Co. Inc. - Knoxville, TN | Knoxville | Pig iron merchant wholesaler | F | 5.1 |
| 4535-0845 | Clarksville | Retail/Home Furnishings | D | 5.1 |
| 026-00589 | Brentwood | Supermarkets and Other Groce | D | 5.1 |
| Amazon.com Services LLC - DTN7 | La Vergne | Couriers and Express Deliver | B | 5.1 |
| 1969-RMC1 | Harriman | Hospital Healthcare | B | 5.1 |
| 1969-CMC1 | Crossville | Hospital Healthcare | B | 5.1 |
| American House - Jackson | Jackson | Assisted Living Facility | D | 5.1 |
| Xtreme Pigeon Forge | Pigeon Forge | Amusement parks (e.g., theme | D | 5.1 |
| Hyatt Place Knoxville | Knoxville | Hotels (except Casino Hotels | D | 5.1 |
| Alexander Metals Inc | Nashville | Curtain wall, metal, install | D | 5.1 |
| Jones Company Ltd | Humboldt | Carding textile fibers | D | 5.1 |
| TNCHA | Chattanooga | Warm Air Heating and Air-Con | F | 5.1 |
| 2807-1731 | Dyersburg | Homecenter | D | 5.1 |
| 2288-0434 | Murfreesboro | Structural Pest Control | C | 5.1 |
| South Shelby LF | Memphis | Garbage disposal landfills | D | 5.1 |
| Wayne Medical Center | Waynesboro | General medical and surgical | B | 5.1 |
| Blount County Highway Dept | Maryville | Culverts, highway, road and | D | 5.1 |
| Bath Fitter Manufacturing Tennessee | Springfield | Bathtubs, plastics, manufact | D | 5.1 |
| OEM Tube Assemblies | Clarksville | Airlocks, fabricated metal p | D | 5.1 |
| US FOODS Knoxville | Alcoa | Food Distribution | F | 5.1 |
| 025-00481 | Collierville | Supermarkets and Other Groce | D | 5.1 |
| 177 | Paris | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | D | 5.1 |
| Landscape | Nashville | Landscape care and maintenan | C | 5.1 |
| Deane Hill Place | Knoxville | CONTINUING CARE RETIREMENT C | D | 5.1 |
| City of Alcoa | Alcoa | Executive and legislative of | D | 5.1 |
| Interstate Packaging Springfield | Springfield | Printing, flexographic (exce | D | 5.0 |
| Lee Building Products (Antioch) | Antioch | Blocks, concrete and cinder, | D | 5.0 |
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.