Supermarkets · Kentucky

Food City Store #438

Hazard, KY · ~107 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.5
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Food City Store #438 runs at 131% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Supermarkets workplace, earning a grade D.

Food City Store #438: 4.5 TCR = 131% of Supermarkets BLS 3.4 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Food City Store #438 safety composite

Food City Store #438 scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 55% 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).

D

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% 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

Food City Store #438: 3.4 → 4.4 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 8.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.5× in 2022

Food City Store #438's TCR rose 1.0 from 3.4 in 2016 to 4.4 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2017 at 8.7 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.5× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Hazard, KY ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.5 · 131% of ind

  • DART 2.2 DART
  • RANK #199/364
  • PHOTO The Fresh Market 026
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 26 inj
  • SIZE ~107 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: The Fresh Market 026 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Food City Store #438 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Food City Store #438 averages 4.5 TCR (131% of the Supermarkets BLS benchmark).

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

Food City Store #438 TCR series: 2016=3.4 · 2017=8.7 · 2018=2.5 · 2019=7.5 · 2020=1.2 · 2021=3.5 · 2022=4.4 · BLS 3.4

Where Food City Store #438 falls in its industry

30,654 Supermarkets establishments

Safer than 53% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #199 safest of 364 Supermarkets employers in Kentucky.

Food City Store #438 (107 employees, TCR 4.5) 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 Store #438
Food City Store #438 (107 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Food City Store #438 has more employees than the Supermarkets 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
2022 4.4 2.2 4 0 0
2021 3.5 1.1 3 0 0
2020 1.2 1.2 1 0 0
2019 7.5 5.0 6 0 0
2018 2.5 2.5 2 0 0
2017 8.7 7.4 7 0 0
2016 3.4 2.3 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · KY · Hazard

30,654 Supermarkets employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 48 employers in Hazard, KY · 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 The Fresh Market 026 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Shop Rite of Rio Grande 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store #116 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR FAREWAY STORES, INC. 900 DES MOINES 4.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Ale-8-One Bottling Company 107 FTE
STATE-SIZE West Sixth Brewing Company, LLC 107 FTE
STATE-SIZE Crane Composites 107 FTE
STATE-SIZE thyssenkrupp Rothe Erde USA Inc 107 FTE
CITY-NEAR Go Hire Employee & Development, Inc 1,296 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hazard Regional Medical Center 940 FTE
CITY-NEAR Appalachian Regional Healthcare, Inc 875 FTE
CITY-NEAR double kwik Hazard 3 455 FTE
NAT-TCR Adult Probation 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Lindenmeyr Central Islip 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Broulim's Corporate Office 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 1241 - Aurora West 4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Valley View Health Care Facility 107 FTE
NAT-SIZE Altercare Nobles Pond 107 FTE
NAT-SIZE International Paper Richmond Container 107 FTE
NAT-SIZE Clariant Midland 107 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: 2022, 2021, 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.