Full service restaurants · Tennessee

FFD- Cool Springs, LLC (dba Famous Dave`s)

Franklin, TN · ~48 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
3.0
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

FFD- Cool Springs, LLC (dba Famous Dave`s) runs at 132% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Full service restaurants workplace, earning a grade D.

FFD- Cool Springs, LLC (dba Famous Dave`s): 4.0 TCR = 132% of Full service restaurants BLS 3.0 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

FFD- Cool Springs, LLC (dba Famous Dave`s) safety composite

FFD- Cool Springs, LLC (dba Famous Dave`s) 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

61/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 61% 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%).

Rising injury rate

FFD- Cool Springs, LLC (dba Famous Dave`s): 0.0 → 7.9 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 7.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2017

FFD- Cool Springs, LLC (dba Famous Dave`s)'s TCR rose 7.9 from 0.0 in 2016 to 7.9 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 4.0 · 132% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #4/15
  • PHOTO Valley Dairy Restaur…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~48 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Valley Dairy Restaurant #7 (0.0 TCR gap)

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FFD- Cool Springs, 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- Cool Springs, LLC (dba Famous Dave`s) averages 4.0 TCR (132% 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- Cool Springs, LLC (dba Famous Dave`s) TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=7.9 · BLS 3.0

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

1,091 Full service restaurants establishments

Safer than 61% 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 #4 safest of 15 Full service restaurants employers in Tennessee.

FFD- Cool Springs, LLC (dba Famous Dave`s) (48 employees, TCR 4.0) 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- Cool Springs, LLC (dba Famous Dave`s)
FFD- Cool Springs, LLC (dba Famous Dave`s) (48 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 4.9

FFD- Cool Springs, 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
2017 7.9 0.0 2 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

722511 · TN · Franklin

1,091 Full service restaurants employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 181 employers in Franklin, 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 Valley Dairy Restaurant #7 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Iron Star Urban BBQ 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Farrelli's Sumner 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Milwaukee Ale House 4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bolivar Energy Authority 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Electric Department 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jefferson Cocke County Utility District 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Chattanooga Service Center 48 FTE
CITY-NEAR Williamson County Board of Education - Williamson County Schools 6,320 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nissan Americas Headquarters - Franklin 2,007 FTE
CITY-NEAR Williamson County Government 1,948 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lee Company 1,716 FTE
NAT-TCR US - Supply Chain : 0010 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR West Shoreline Correctional Facility 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Kirksville (Mokir) 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Scs 1860 Outer Loop - 3756 (Kyvle) 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Truman Valley Healthcare Inc 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE N and R of Malden LLC 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Southeast Connections LLc ( Savannah, Georgia) 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Building 21/CP/Fleet /Maint 48 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: 2017, 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.