Supermarkets · Tennessee

Food City Store #688

Knoxville, TN · ~100 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 #688 runs at 134% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Supermarkets workplace, earning a grade D.

Food City Store #688: 4.5 TCR = 134% of Supermarkets BLS 3.4 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Food City Store #688 safety composite

Food City Store #688 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 41%), 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)
D 4.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% 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 #688: 4.5 → 6.7 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 9.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.73× in 2022

Food City Store #688's TCR rose 2.1 from 4.5 in 2016 to 6.7 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2020 at 9.7 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.73× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 4.5 · 134% of ind

  • DART 3.3 DART
  • RANK #304/494
  • PHOTO Monongahela Foodland
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 27 inj
  • SIZE ~100 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Monongahela Foodland (0.0 TCR gap)

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Food City Store #688 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Food City Store #688 averages 4.5 TCR (134% 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 #688 TCR series: 2016=4.5 · 2017=1.5 · 2018=6 · 2019=1.2 · 2020=9.7 · 2021=2.3 · 2022=6.7 · BLS 3.4

Where Food City Store #688 falls in its industry

30,654 Supermarkets establishments

Safer than 51% 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 #304 safest of 494 Supermarkets employers in Tennessee.

Food City Store #688 (100 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 #688
Food City Store #688 (100 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 #688 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 6.7 3.3 6 0 0
2021 2.3 1.1 2 0 0
2020 9.7 8.6 9 0 0
2019 1.2 1.2 1 0 0
2018 6.0 3.6 5 0 0
2017 1.5 1.5 1 0 0
2016 4.5 3.0 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · TN · Knoxville

30,654 Supermarkets employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 747 employers in Knoxville, 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 Monongahela Foodland 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 0328 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 0779 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 1080 4.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE ATHENS UTILITIES BOARD 100 FTE
STATE-SIZE Earthadelic Enterprises, LLC 100 FTE
STATE-SIZE Clayton Supply of Westmoreland 100 FTE
STATE-SIZE LyondellBasell Jackson Plant 100 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cellular Sales Services Group LLC 6,387 FTE
CITY-NEAR University Health System, Inc 5,215 FTE
CITY-NEAR Functional Pathways of TN LLC 2,258 FTE
CITY-NEAR HES Facilities Services K-12 2,157 FTE
NAT-TCR Courtyard Reading Wyomissing 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Kahiki 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Price Cutter # 51 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Boys Town Central Nebraska 4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Municipal Offices 100 FTE
NAT-SIZE Boston Scientific Path 100 FTE
NAT-SIZE Morries Minnetonka Ford 100 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tops #207 100 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.