Grocery stores · Tennessee

Food City #686

Athens, TN · ~141 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.3
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Food City #686 runs at 127% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Grocery stores workplace, earning a grade D.

Food City #686: 4.3 TCR = 127% of Grocery stores BLS 3.4 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Food City #686 safety composite

Food City #686 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 55% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 35%), 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

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.9

2018→2023

Food City #686 injury rate improved

Food City #686's TCR fell 1.9 from 6.9 in 2018 to 4.9 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2018 at 6.9 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.91× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=6.9 · 2019=4.6 · 2020=3.7 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=5.9 · 2023=4.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Athens, TN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.3 · 127% of ind

  • DART 3.9 DART
  • RANK #270/494
  • PHOTO Nil9Ventures, Inc
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 25 inj
  • SIZE ~141 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Nil9Ventures, Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Food City #686 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Food City #686 averages 4.3 TCR (127% of the Grocery stores BLS benchmark).

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

Food City #686 TCR series: 2018=6.9 · 2019=4.6 · 2020=3.7 · 2021=0 · 2022=5.9 · 2023=4.9 · BLS 3.4

Where Food City #686 falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery stores establishments

Safer than 55% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #270 safest of 494 Grocery stores employers in Tennessee.

Food City #686 (141 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 050100150200250 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Food City #686
Food City #686 (141 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Food City #686 has more employees than the Grocery stores median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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 4.9 3.9 5 0 0
2022 5.9 5.9 6 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 3.7 3.7 4 0 0
2019 4.6 3.5 4 0 0
2018 6.9 5.7 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · TN · Athens

30,654 Grocery stores 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 Nil9Ventures, Inc 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Giant Eagle #0070 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lowes Foods #267 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Shop Rite of Absecon 4.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Formall Inc 141 FTE
STATE-SIZE Union City Shower Doors 141 FTE
STATE-SIZE Xtreme Tower Products 141 FTE
STATE-SIZE Precision Coil 141 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 Dramco Tool Co., Inc. 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Detroit Transportation Corporation 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Rapid City Office 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR America's Thrift Store #15 4.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE STA - Pinebrook 141 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bagatelos Architectural Glass Systems, Inc. 141 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kinderhook Operating LLC 141 FTE
NAT-SIZE NVE Pharmaceuticals 141 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, 2022, 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.