Employer · Tennessee

BCBST Cafe

Chattanooga, TN · ~20 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.6
Avg TCR
3.0
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

BCBST Cafe runs at 87% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical industry workplace, earning a grade C.

BCBST Cafe: 2.6 TCR = 87% of industry BLS 3.0 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

BCBST Cafe safety composite

BCBST Cafe scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

63/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% 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%).

BCBST Cafe held a steady TCR band

BCBST Cafe's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2018 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2020 at 9.4 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=0.0 · 2019=3.7 · 2020=9.4 · 2021=0.0 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 722310 · Chattanooga, TN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.6 · 87% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #48/133
  • PHOTO SODEXO AT FRIENDS UN…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~20 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SODEXO AT FRIENDS UNIVERSITY (0.0 TCR gap)

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BCBST Cafe in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows BCBST Cafe averages 2.6 TCR (87% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

BCBST Cafe TCR series: 2018=0 · 2019=3.7 · 2020=9.4 · 2021=0 · 2023=0 · BLS 3.0

Where BCBST Cafe falls in its industry

6,952 industry establishments

Safer than 64% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #48 safest of 133 industry employers in Tennessee.

BCBST Cafe (20 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate BCBST Cafe
BCBST Cafe (20 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.5

BCBST Cafe has fewer employees than the industry median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 9.4 9.4 1 0 0
2019 3.7 3.7 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

722310 · TN · Chattanooga

6,952 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 695 employers in Chattanooga, 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 SODEXO AT FRIENDS UNIVERSITY 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR SODEXO AT WILLIAM PENN UNIVERSITY 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Regeneron 3 Midway 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR MERIT HEALTH CENTRAL 2.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Machine Harvest 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Columbia DREMC 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE CEMC-Gallatin 20 FTE
CITY-NEAR CHATTANOOGA COKE 8,650 FTE
CITY-NEAR CHATTANOOGA FOOD 8,650 FTE
CITY-NEAR USXpress 7,385 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cardiology GB 6,606 FTE
NAT-TCR Hup Main 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Emergency Vehicle Specialists 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR CARE - Indian River 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR SALT LAKE CITY, UT (container) 2.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE FAU/Mac Arthur Campus* 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stetson Univ Retail 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE M7055 Lanier Health 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE M4229 Effingham Cou* 20 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.