Supermarkets and Other Grocery Except Convenience Stores · Tennessee

026-00531

Knoxville, TN · ~112 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.8
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

026-00531 runs at 172% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Supermarkets and Other Grocery Except Convenience Stores workplace, earning a grade D.

026-00531: 5.8 TCR = 172% of Supermarkets and Other Grocery Except Convenience Stores BLS 3.4 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

026-00531 safety composite

026-00531 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 21%), 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).

F

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% 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%).

026-00531 held a steady TCR band

026-00531's TCR held near 0.3 from 6.3 in 2016 to 6.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 9.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.02× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=6.3 · 2017=5.1 · 2018=5.6 · 2019=4.3 · 2020=2.0 · 2021=6.2 · 2022=9.4 · 2023=7.9 · 2024=6.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 5.8 · 172% of ind

  • DART 6.0 DART
  • RANK #424/494
  • PHOTO RDC Food Inc
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 35 inj
  • SIZE ~112 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: RDC Food Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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026-00531 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 026-00531 averages 5.8 TCR (172% 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

026-00531 TCR series: 2016=6.3 · 2017=5.1 · 2018=5.6 · 2019=4.3 · 2020=2 · 2021=6.2 · 2022=9.4 · 2023=7.9 · 2024=6 · BLS 3.4

Where 026-00531 falls in its industry

30,654 Supermarkets and Other Grocery establishments

Safer than 36% 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 #424 safest of 494 Supermarkets and Other Grocery employers in Tennessee.

026-00531 (112 employees, TCR 5.8) 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 026-00531
026-00531 (112 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

026-00531 has more employees than the Supermarkets and Other Grocery Except Co median and a higher 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 6.0 6.0 5 0 0
2023 7.9 7.9 6 0 0
2022 9.4 9.4 0 8 0
2021 6.2 4.1 3 3 0
2020 2.0 2.0 1 1 0
2019 4.3 2.1 4 0 0
2018 5.6 3.4 5 0 0
2017 5.1 3.0 5 0 0
2016 6.3 4.2 6 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 RDC Food Inc 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 1057 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Stratford 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR GIANT FOOD STORES 6011 5.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Lendlease - DoD Construction 112 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMERICAN MECHANICAL CONTRACTORS 112 FTE
STATE-SIZE Great Lakes Boat Top LLC 112 FTE
STATE-SIZE Koch Tenn Cabinets 112 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 Flomatic Corporation 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR RRSC Atlanta 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Vesuvius Penn Wampum 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Memorial High School 5.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Belmont Village - La Jolla 112 FTE
NAT-SIZE Black Hawk Middle School 112 FTE
NAT-SIZE Plasman-Cleveland AB 112 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wieland Metals 112 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.