Full service restaurants · Tennessee

FFD-Cedar Bluff, LLC (dba Famous Dave`s)

Knoxville, TN · ~40 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.6
Avg TCR
3.0
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

FFD-Cedar Bluff, LLC (dba Famous Dave`s) runs at 155% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Full service restaurants workplace, earning a grade D.

FFD-Cedar Bluff, LLC (dba Famous Dave`s): 4.6 TCR = 155% of Full service restaurants BLS 3.0 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

FFD-Cedar Bluff, LLC (dba Famous Dave`s) safety composite

FFD-Cedar Bluff, LLC (dba Famous Dave`s) scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 17%), 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

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% 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

FFD-Cedar Bluff, LLC (dba Famous Dave`s): 4.8 → 9.8 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 9.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.05× in 2020

FFD-Cedar Bluff, LLC (dba Famous Dave`s)'s TCR rose 5.0 from 4.8 in 2016 to 9.8 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 1.05× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 722511 · Knoxville, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.6 · 155% of ind

  • DART 4.9 DART
  • RANK #5/15
  • PHOTO Druco Restaurants, I…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~40 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Druco Restaurants, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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FFD-Cedar Bluff, LLC (dba Famous Dave`s) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows FFD-Cedar Bluff, LLC (dba Famous Dave`s) averages 4.6 TCR (155% of the Full service restaurants BLS benchmark).

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

FFD-Cedar Bluff, LLC (dba Famous Dave`s) TCR series: 2016=4.8 · 2017=4.8 · 2018=3.9 · 2019=0 · 2020=9.8 · BLS 3.0

Where FFD-Cedar Bluff, LLC (dba Famous Dave`s) falls in its industry

1,091 Full service restaurants establishments

Safer than 53% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 15 Full service restaurants employers in Tennessee.

FFD-Cedar Bluff, LLC (dba Famous Dave`s) (40 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 4.9 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate FFD-Cedar Bluff, LLC (dba Famous Dave`s)
FFD-Cedar Bluff, LLC (dba Famous Dave`s) (40 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 4.9

FFD-Cedar Bluff, LLC (dba Famous Dave`s) has fewer employees than the Full service restaurants median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.9. 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
2020 9.8 4.9 2 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 3.9 3.9 1 0 0
2017 4.8 4.8 1 0 0
2016 4.8 4.8 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

722511 · TN · Knoxville

1,091 Full service restaurants 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 Druco Restaurants, Inc. 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1043-ENPHG-MURRYSVILLE 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR IHOP 1508 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1058-ENPHG-INDIANA 4.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Moseley Bros. 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2022 Milan Public Utilities 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Milan Department of Public Utilities 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE MEC NEWLAND BRANCH 40 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 Marceline South 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Transport Holdings- Merrillville 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Homewood Suites - Cape Canaveral 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Spice Chain Corp. 4.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE J & H Heating, Inc. 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Roses 555 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ram Tool Construction Supply Company - Charlotte 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pioneer Memorial Rest Home 40 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: 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.