453310 Used Merchandise Stores · Tennessee

Athens

Athens, TN · ~26 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.8
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Athens runs at 54% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical 453310 Used Merchandise Stores workplace, earning a grade B.

Athens: 1.8 TCR = 54% of 453310 Used Merchandise Stores BLS 3.4 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Athens safety composite

Athens scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 90% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 25%), 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).

C

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 90% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% 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

Athens: 0.0 → 7.3 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 7.3 TCR · DART/TCR 4.01× in 2023

Athens's TCR rose 7.3 from 0.0 in 2016 to 7.3 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 4.01× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 453310 · Athens, TN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.8 · 54% of ind

  • DART 7.3 DART
  • RANK #16/63
  • PHOTO Fairfield Store
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~26 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Fairfield Store (0.0 TCR gap)

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Athens in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Athens averages 1.8 TCR (54% of the 453310 Used Merchandise Stores BLS benchmark).

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

Athens TCR series: 2016=0 · 2020=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=7.3 · BLS 3.4

Where Athens falls in its industry

1,556 453310 Used Merchandise Stores establishments

Safer than 90% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #16 safest of 63 453310 Used Merchandise Stores employers in Tennessee.

Athens (26 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 36 employees and a TCR of 5.3 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 05001,0001,5002,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Athens
Athens (26 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 36 employees and a TCR of 5.3

Athens has fewer employees than the 453310 Used Merchandise Stores median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.3. 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
2023 7.3 7.3 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

453310 · TN · Athens

1,556 453310 Used Merchandise Stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 77 employers in Athens, 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 Fairfield Store 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF TENNEVA AREA, INC. 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 5245 Texarkana 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 14th St. Des Moines IA Thrift Store 1.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Buy Sod - Nashville 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tobacco Pride 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tennessee Farms 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE CEMC-Springfield 26 FTE
CITY-NEAR DENSO Manufacturing Athens Tennessee, INC 1,659 FTE
CITY-NEAR DENSO Manufacturing Athens, TN INC 1,638 FTE
CITY-NEAR Starr Regional Medical Center 603 FTE
CITY-NEAR Adient Athens 540 FTE
NAT-TCR Emergency Equipment Professionals 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Wolverine Fireprotection Co. 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Twin Stars, LLC. 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Classic Performance Products, Inc. 1.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE TQ Logistics 3-4 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Merchants Wholesale Grocer, Inc. 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Valley Farms Supply Inc. - Lansing 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Elteq Management Co., Inc 26 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: 2023, 2022, 2020, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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