Supermarkets · Tennessee

Food City Store #605

Name: Food City Store #605 Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Kingsport, TN · ~178 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

C
Average Safety Record: 4.0
Avg TCR: 3.4
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Food City Store #605 runs at 117% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Supermarkets workplace, earning a grade C.

Food City Store #605: 4.0 TCR = 117% of Supermarkets BLS 3.4 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Food City Store #605 safety composite

Food City Store #605 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 61% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 23%), 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).

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 3.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 61% of industry peers
DART rate: F 5.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% 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 #605: 4.7 → 5.6 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 8.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.4× in 2022

Food City Store #605's TCR rose 0.9 from 4.7 in 2016 to 5.6 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2017 at 8.0 TCR. In 2022, DART was 1.4× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade C · TCR 4.0 · 117% of ind

DART 5.6 DART
RANK #227/494
PHOTO Lowes Foods #191
BOOK 7y book
INJ 35 inj
SIZE ~178 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Lowes Foods #191 (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Food City Store #605 averages 4.0 TCR (117% of the Supermarkets BLS benchmark).

Food City Store #605 TCR series: 2016=4.7 · 2017=8 · 2018=4 · 2019=2.4 · 2020=0 · 2021=3.2 · 2022=5.6 · BLS 3.4

Where Food City Store #605 falls in its industry

30,654 Supermarkets establishments

Safer than 61% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

Grade C

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #227 safest of 494 Supermarkets employers in Tennessee.

Food City Store #605 (178 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Food City Store #605 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
2022	5.6	5.6	7
2021	3.2	2.4	4
2020	0.0	0.0	0
2019	2.4	1.6	3
2018	4.0	2.4	5
2017	8.0	5.6	10
2016	4.7	3.1	6

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · TN · Kingsport

30,654 Supermarkets employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 152 employers in Kingsport, TN · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Lowes Foods #191	RALEIGH, NC	4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR	The Fresh Grocer of LaSalle	PHILADELPHIA, PA	4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Price Rite Store 405 Scranton	SCRANTON, PA	4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Rouses Market #59	THIBODAUX, LA	4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE	The Pictsweet Company - Corporate Office	BELLS	178 FTE
STATE-SIZE	K252-M001	MURFREESBORO	178 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Channel	MEMPHIS	178 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Royal Building Products - Bristol	BRISTOL	178 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Eastman Kingsport Site	Kingsport	7,258 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Holston Valley Medical Center	Kingsport	1,733 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Eastman Chemical Company Kinsport TN- BSL	Kingsport	1,206 FTE
CITY-NEAR	BLUE RIDGE MEDICAL MANAGEMENT CORPORATION - VA	Kingsport	1,073 FTE
NAT-TCR	Food City Store #428	Middlesboro, KY	4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR	St. Mary's Hospital and Medical Center	Grand Junction, CO	4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR	48 - La Crosse	Onalaska, WI	4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR	1161 - Brighton-OH	Brighton, CO	4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Jacobs Creek Nursing & Rehabilitation Center	Madison, NC	178 FTE
NAT-SIZE	McPhee Electric	South Plainfield, NJ	178 FTE
NAT-SIZE	S03826 - WM of IL SW (Rockdale Satellite)	Rockdale, IL	178 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Elim Care Center	Fargo, ND	178 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.

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