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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
Collierville Tn Collierville Soft Drink Manufacturing F 4.8
SMC Selmer Selmer Metal scrap and waste mercha F 4.8
S&W Contracting Murfreesboro Electric contracting D 4.8
Wagner General Contractors, Inc, TN Bartlett Addition, alteration and ren D 4.7
FILMtech Inc. Bean Station Flexible packaging, plastics D 4.7
Collier Development Co., Inc d/b/a Creekstone Inn Pigeon Forge Tourist lodges D 4.7
Wm 366 Madisonville Warehouse Clubs and Supercen D 4.7
Most Tn Jackson Aluminum ingot, secondary sm D 4.7
SJ&L General Contractor LLC Fayetteville Construction management, hig D 4.7
3140 Keystone Bristol Bristol Motor vehicle parts and acce F 4.7
123 Knoxville, Tn Knoxville Family Clothing Stores D 4.7
North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : CHA2 Charleston General Warehousing and Stor C 4.7
Store 306 Sweetwater Supermarkets and Other Groce D 4.7
Tennessee Tractor LLC - Dyersburg Dyersburg Agricultural machinery and e F 4.7
Food City Store #694 Knoxville Supermarkets D 4.7
Price Less Foods #486 Johnson City Grocery stores D 4.7
Clarksville Operations Clarksville Residential Intellectual & D D 4.7
Milan Supply Chain Solutions Jackson` General freight trucking, lo C 4.7
Jackson 077 Jackson - C 4.7
Charles Hampton's A-1 Signs, Inc Burns - D 4.7
Humboldt Cash Saver Dyer Commissaries, primarily groc D 4.7
Indian Path Community Hospital Kingsport General medical and surgical B 4.7
Fresh Point Value Added Nashville Health foods, fresh fruits a F 4.7
026-00529 Murfreesboro Supermarkets and Other Groce D 4.7
Brock. LLC Chattanooga Asphalt roofing construction D 4.7
Tnoak - Oakhaven Package Distribution Center Memphis Couriers and Express Deliver B 4.7
Community Options Chattanooga TN Chattanooga Residential Intellectual and D 4.7
Ahscm27 Ascension Alexian Village of Tn Signal Mountain Nursing Care Facilities Ski B 4.7
General Motors Springhill ASSY Spring Hill Chassis, automobile, manufac D 4.7
Rusken Packaging Inc. Knoxville Knoxville Boxes, corrugated and solid D 4.7
JACKSON_1368187 Jackson Mail and Parcel Delivery C 4.7
Wm 950 Bartlett Warehouse Clubs and Supercen D 4.7
2807-2239 Knoxville Homecenter D 4.7
Perma-Pipe PPDHC Lebanon Fabricated pipe and pipe fit D 4.7
Middle TN Electric Membership Corporation (Downtown) Murfreesboro Distribution of electric pow F 4.7
1159 New Tazewell All Other General Merchandis D 4.7
Black Rifle Coffee Company TN Manchester Coffee and Tea Manufacturing C 4.7
Clayton Savannah Savannah Manufactured (mobile) homes D 4.7
025-00413 Memphis Supermarkets and other groce D 4.7
Hardwood Flooring Morristown Cornices, wood, manufacturin D 4.7
Quality Hospice Jamestown Home health care agencies C 4.7
La Vergne La Vergne General warehousing and stor C 4.7
107/GTN Germantown All Other Home Furnishings S D 4.7
Eagle Transport Corporation - Chattanooga Chattanooga Trucking, general freight, l C 4.7
2288-0352 Blountville Structural Pest Control C 4.7
Newport Health and Rehabilitation Center Newport Skilled nursing facilities B 4.7
DGS Aviation Services : BNA - Nashville Nashville Support Activities for Air T C 4.7
4535-1623 Mt. Juliet Retail/Home Furnishings D 4.7
Olhausen Portland Billiard equipment and suppl D 4.7
C&B MJW Nashville, TN 165 Nashville Doors and door frames mercha F 4.7
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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.