General warehousing and storage · Virginia
Food City Distribution Center
Abingdon, VA · ~845 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.
- D
- Poor Safety Record
- 11.3
- Avg TCR
- 5.8
- Industry avg
- 0
- Fatalities
The verdict
Food City Distribution Center runs at 194% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical General warehousing and storage workplace, earning a grade D.
- D
- Poor Safety Record
- 11.3
- avg TCR · per 100 workers
- 5.8
- industry benchmark (BLS)
- 832
- recordable injuries tracked
Grade compares Food City Distribution Center's OSHA Total Case Rate of 11.3 to the General warehousing and storage BLS benchmark of 5.8 (194% of benchmark) across 9 years of Form 300A filings (2016–2024). <a href="/methodology">See methodology</a> for reporting-limitation caveats.
Injury rate over time
Food City Distribution Center's yearly Total Case Rate, against the 5.8 industry benchmark.
Where Food City Distribution Center falls in its industry
10,728 General warehousing and storag establishmentsSafer than 6% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.
Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #243 safest of 255 General warehousing and storag employers in Virginia.
Trend analysis for Food City Distribution Center
Between 2016 and 2024, Food City Distribution Center's Total Case Rate worsened from 10.1 to 17.6 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers, a 74% increase across 8 years of OSHA reporting.
The safest year on record was 2017, at a TCR of 7.5, while 2024 saw the highest rate, at 17.6, a spread of 10.1 points between the best and worst reporting years. That's a wide swing relative to the establishment's overall rate, worth checking the year-by-year table below for whether a single severe year is driving the average, rather than a sustained trend.
Summed across those 9 reporting years, Food City Distribution Center recorded 832 total injuries and illnesses, with no fatalities reported in any of those years. Readers comparing establishments should weigh the 9-year trend above alongside establishment size, since a larger workforce naturally accumulates more raw incidents even at a lower per-100-worker rate.
Verify This Employer with OSHA
The 832 injuries, 3 illnesses shown on this page for Food City Distribution Center are sourced from its own 9 years of mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source, name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.
Verify on OSHA Establishment SearchSource: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 493110 - General warehousing and storage.
DART Rate, Transparent Calculation (2024)
What is the DART rate formula?
DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.
108 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 1,627,697 hours worked = 13.27 DART
Methodology: 29 CFR 1904, OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping
Cross-Validating Context, Establishment vs Industry vs State
| Benchmark | TCR | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Food City Distribution Center (this establishment) | 11.28 | OSHA ITA Form 300A, 9-year avg |
| Warehousing and storage, general merchandise industry avg | 5.80 | BLS IIF, NAICS 493110 |
| Virginia state avg (all industries) | 4.16 | OSHA ITA, state-level rollup |
Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program
Reportable Incident Timeline
Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by Food City Distribution Center to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.
- 2024: 143 reportable incidents · 143 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2023: 117 reportable incidents · 117 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2022: 77 reportable incidents · 77 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2021: 98 reportable incidents · 97 injuries, 1 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2020: 122 reportable incidents · 122 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2019: 73 reportable incidents · 73 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2018: 64 reportable incidents · 64 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2017: 59 reportable incidents · 58 injuries, 1 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2016: 82 reportable incidents · 81 injuries, 1 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) - inspection case-number records
Year-by-Year Safety Data
| Year | TCR | DART | Injuries | Illnesses | Fatalities |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 17.6 | 13.3 | 143 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 13.9 | 11.9 | 117 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 8.9 | 7.4 | 77 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 12.1 | 8.9 | 97 | 1 | 0 |
| 2020 | 13.9 | 10.7 | 122 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 9.4 | 7.6 | 73 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | 8.1 | 7.2 | 64 | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | 7.5 | 5.6 | 58 | 1 | 0 |
| 2016 | 10.1 | 8.9 | 81 | 1 | 0 |
What this grade means for you
Use this grade as a relative read on Food City Distribution Center's reported OSHA injury record versus its General warehousing and storage peers, not a verdict on whether any single site is safe today.
- At 194% of the General warehousing and storage benchmark, Food City Distribution Center reports more injuries than typical peers, ask specifically how the employer is reducing them. Know your rights
- Judge this record against the wider General warehousing and storage sector, where injury rates vary widely, before comparing it in isolation. See the industry
- Grades reflect 2016–2024 filings; check the latest establishment record straight from OSHA, or look up a different employer. Look up another
Safety grades reflect employers' self-reported OSHA Form 300A filings from 2016 to 2024 and can lag current conditions. A grade is not a guarantee that any specific workplace is safe or unsafe today. See our methodology and disclaimer.
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Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.