DAIRY DISTRIBUTION · Tennessee

Dfa Distributing South - Athens Tn

Athens, TN · ~66 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.7
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Dfa Distributing South - Athens Tn runs at 170% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical DAIRY DISTRIBUTION workplace, earning a grade D.

Dfa Distributing South - Athens Tn: 3.7 TCR = 170% of DAIRY DISTRIBUTION BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dfa Distributing South - Athens Tn safety composite

Dfa Distributing South - Athens Tn scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 74% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

62/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.5

2021→2024

Dfa Distributing South - Athens Tn injury rate improved

Dfa Distributing South - Athens Tn's TCR fell 2.5 from 6.9 in 2021 to 4.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 6.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.77× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=6.9 · 2022=2.4 · 2023=1.3 · 2024=4.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424430 · Athens, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 3.7 · 170% of ind

  • DART 2.9 DART
  • RANK #6/11
  • PHOTO DFA DISTRIBUTING SOU…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~66 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: DFA DISTRIBUTING SOUTH - GREENVILLE SC (0.1 TCR gap)

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Dfa Distributing South - Athens Tn in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dfa Distributing South - Athens Tn averages 3.7 TCR (170% of the DAIRY DISTRIBUTION BLS benchmark).

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

Dfa Distributing South - Athens Tn TCR series: 2021=6.9 · 2022=2.4 · 2023=1.3 · 2024=4.3 · BLS 2.2

Where Dfa Distributing South - Athens Tn falls in its industry

231 DAIRY DISTRIBUTION establishments

Safer than 74% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 11 DAIRY DISTRIBUTION employers in Tennessee.

Dfa Distributing South - Athens Tn (66 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 5.9 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Dfa Distributing South - Athens Tn
Dfa Distributing South - Athens Tn (66 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 5.9

Dfa Distributing South - Athens Tn has more employees than the DAIRY DISTRIBUTION median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.9. 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 4.3 2.9 3 0 0
2023 1.3 0.0 1 0 0
2022 2.4 2.4 2 0 0
2021 6.9 1.4 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424430 · TN · Athens

231 DAIRY DISTRIBUTION 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 DFA DISTRIBUTING SOUTH - GREENVILLE SC 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nu-Pak North 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR San Antonio Facility 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lehigh Lansdale - Hagerstown - DTI 3.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE 900-DREES-NASHVILLE 66 FTE
STATE-SIZE Chickasaw 66 FTE
STATE-SIZE Barnard Construction Company Inc. 272 66 FTE
STATE-SIZE Young Electric Co., Inc 66 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 Marguerite Concrete Inc 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Ace Corporate Support 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR LeafGuard of Richmond 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Aurora 3.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Food City Lisbon 66 FTE
NAT-SIZE 184E Enterprise RAC Company of Baltimore, LLC 66 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jim Cooper Construction Company, inc. 66 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ox Paperboard WP, LLC 66 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.