Full service restaurants · Tennessee

FFD- Smyrna, LLC (dba Famous Dave`s)

Smyrna, TN · ~45 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
3.0
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

FFD- Smyrna, LLC (dba Famous Dave`s) runs at 168% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Full service restaurants workplace, earning a grade D.

FFD- Smyrna, LLC (dba Famous Dave`s): 5.0 TCR = 168% of Full service restaurants BLS 3.0 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

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

FFD- Smyrna, LLC (dba Famous Dave`s) scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 48%), 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

56/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% 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%).

FFD- Smyrna, LLC (dba Famous Dave`s) held a steady TCR band

FFD- Smyrna, LLC (dba Famous Dave`s)'s TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2017 at 25.2 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.0 · 2017=25.2 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 5.0 · 168% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #8/15
  • PHOTO IHOP 3387
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~45 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: IHOP 3387 (0.0 TCR gap)

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FFD- Smyrna, 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- Smyrna, LLC (dba Famous Dave`s) averages 5.0 TCR (168% 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- Smyrna, LLC (dba Famous Dave`s) TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=25.2 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · BLS 3.0

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

1,091 Full service restaurants establishments

Safer than 48% 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 #8 safest of 15 Full service restaurants employers in Tennessee.

FFD- Smyrna, LLC (dba Famous Dave`s) (45 employees, TCR 5.0) 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- Smyrna, LLC (dba Famous Dave`s)
FFD- Smyrna, LLC (dba Famous Dave`s) (45 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 4.9

FFD- Smyrna, LLC (dba Famous Dave`s) has fewer employees than the Full service restaurants median and a higher 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 25.2 0.0 5 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

722511 · TN · Smyrna

1,091 Full service restaurants employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 117 employers in Smyrna, 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 IHOP 3387 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tam O'Shanter 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Snoopy's at SSI, LLC 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR BENTO UF 5.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE MEC Headquarters 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Advanced Power & Lighting, LLC - 230 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hollingsworth Paving Inc. 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hawkins Asphalt Paving, LLC 45 FTE
CITY-NEAR Smyrna Vehicle Plant 6,459 FTE
CITY-NEAR Yates Services, LLC @ Nissan Smyrna 1,196 FTE
CITY-NEAR TLC 989 FTE
CITY-NEAR Asurion 952 FTE
NAT-TCR Carrier Commercial Services (Fairfield) 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Tmx2124 - San Jose 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Ross store 1543 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Broshco Fabricated Products 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE ConGlobal Industries, Forest View 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Evolent Health LLC New York 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ground Effects Westlake 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE ProFlow LLC 45 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.

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

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