Supermarkets · Tennessee

Food City Store #686

Name: Food City Store #686 Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Athens, TN · ~149 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

C
Average Safety Record: 3.8
Avg TCR: 3.4
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Food City Store #686 runs at 111% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Supermarkets workplace, earning a grade C.

Food City Store #686: 3.8 TCR = 111% of Supermarkets BLS 3.4 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Food City Store #686 safety composite

Food City Store #686 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 63% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 37%), 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).

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 3.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 63% of industry peers
DART rate: D 3.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% 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 #686: 0.0 → 3.7 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 6.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.98× in 2020

Food City Store #686's TCR rose 3.7 from 0.0 in 2017 to 3.7 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2018 at 6.9 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.98× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade C · TCR 3.8 · 111% of ind

DART 3.7 DART
RANK #208/494
PHOTO Covington Save A Lot
BOOK 4y book
INJ 14 inj
SIZE ~149 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Covington Save A Lot (0.0 TCR gap)

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3.8
Covington Save

3.8
FAREWAY STORES

3.8
Store 0142

3.8
Store 1233

3.8

What this shows Food City Store #686 averages 3.8 TCR (111% of the Supermarkets BLS benchmark).

Food City Store #686 TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=6.9 · 2019=4.6 · 2020=3.7 · BLS 3.4

Where Food City Store #686 falls in its industry

30,654 Supermarkets establishments

Safer than 63% 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 #208 safest of 494 Supermarkets employers in Tennessee.

Food City Store #686 (149 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Food City Store #686 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
2020	3.7	3.7	4
2019	4.6	3.5	4
2018	6.9	5.7	6
2017	0.0	0.0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · TN · Athens

30,654 Supermarkets 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	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Covington Save A Lot	COVINGTON, TN	3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	FAREWAY STORES, INC. 987 DAVENPORT	DAVENPORT, IA	3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Store 0142	BRENTWOOD, TN	3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Store 1233	PERRY, GA	3.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Elizabethton	ELIZABETHTON	149 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Aluma-Form, Inc. Memphis Location	MEMPHIS	149 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Dot Foods, Inc. Tennessee	DYERSBURG	149 FTE
STATE-SIZE	1747 LOWE S OF SPRINGFIELD TN	SPRINGFIELD	149 FTE
CITY-NEAR	DENSO Manufacturing Athens Tennessee, INC	Athens	1,659 FTE
CITY-NEAR	DENSO Manufacturing Athens, TN INC	Athens	1,638 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Starr Regional Medical Center	Athens	603 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Adient Athens	Athens	540 FTE
NAT-TCR	Zotos International Inc.	Geneva, NY	3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	ALV	Albuquerque, NM	3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Alpine House of Columbus	Bryan, OH	3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	2077-Us Dd Nw Brisbane Branch	Brisbane, CA	3.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Lund Famiy Center	Burlington, VT	149 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Hospice at Home	St. Joseph, MI	149 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Sun Prairie Plant	Sun Prairie, WI	149 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Augustana HC Dassel	Dassel, MN	149 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. 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.