Supermarkets and Other Grocery Except Convenience Stores · Tennessee

026-00525

Knoxville, TN · ~161 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.3
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

026-00525 runs at 128% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Supermarkets and Other Grocery Except Convenience Stores workplace, earning a grade D.

026-00525: 4.3 TCR = 128% of Supermarkets and Other Grocery Except Convenience Stores BLS 3.4 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

026-00525 safety composite

026-00525 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 55% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 40%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

D

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

Rising injury rate

026-00525: 0.0 → 3.5 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 10.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.79× in 2024

026-00525's TCR rose 3.5 from 0.0 in 2016 to 3.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 10.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.79× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Knoxville, TN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.3 · 128% of ind

  • DART 3.5 DART
  • RANK #275/494
  • PHOTO Superior Grocers 127
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 31 inj
  • SIZE ~161 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Superior Grocers 127 (0.0 TCR gap)

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026-00525 in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows 026-00525 averages 4.3 TCR (128% of the Supermarkets and Other Grocery Except Convenience Stores BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

026-00525 TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=2.4 · 2018=2.3 · 2019=2.4 · 2020=5.8 · 2021=5.4 · 2022=10.9 · 2023=6.6 · 2024=3.5 · BLS 3.4

Where 026-00525 falls in its industry

30,654 Supermarkets and Other Grocery establishments

Safer than 55% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #275 safest of 494 Supermarkets and Other Grocery employers in Tennessee.

026-00525 (161 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 050100150200250 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate 026-00525
026-00525 (161 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

026-00525 has more employees than the Supermarkets and Other Grocery Except Co median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2024 3.5 3.5 4 0 0
2023 6.6 4.7 7 0 0
2022 10.9 10.9 4 9 0
2021 5.4 5.4 1 6 0
2020 5.8 5.8 6 2 0
2019 2.4 1.6 3 0 0
2018 2.3 1.5 3 0 0
2017 2.4 2.4 3 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · TN · Knoxville

30,654 Supermarkets and Other Grocery Except Convenience Stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 747 employers in Knoxville, TN · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Superior Grocers 127 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 0313 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 1106 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 1133 4.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE The Comfort Group, Inc. 161 FTE
STATE-SIZE Adient Columbia 161 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2807-0629 161 FTE
STATE-SIZE Store 399 161 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cellular Sales Services Group LLC 6,387 FTE
CITY-NEAR University Health System, Inc 5,215 FTE
CITY-NEAR Functional Pathways of TN LLC 2,258 FTE
CITY-NEAR HES Facilities Services K-12 2,157 FTE
NAT-TCR Midwest Finishing Systems 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Westminster Cullman 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR InterMed 100 Foden Road 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR RRSC Norfolk 4.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE System Logistics Corporation 161 FTE
NAT-SIZE O.W. Lee Co. Inc 161 FTE
NAT-SIZE ROTHCO 161 FTE
NAT-SIZE Menzner Hardwoods Co. Kentucky 161 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.