Supermarkets · Tennessee

Food City Store #735

Chattanooga, TN · ~85 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Food City Store #735 runs at 89% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Supermarkets workplace, earning a grade C.

Food City Store #735: 3.0 TCR = 89% of Supermarkets BLS 3.4 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Food City Store #735 safety composite

Food City Store #735 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 76% 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).

C

65/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 3.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.5

2016→2022

Food City Store #735 injury rate improved

Food City Store #735's TCR fell 1.5 from 3.0 in 2016 to 1.6 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2017 at 7.8 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.52× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=3.0 · 2017=7.8 · 2018=1.8 · 2019=5.4 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=1.6 · 2022=1.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Chattanooga, TN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.0 · 89% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK #121/494
  • PHOTO The Fresh Market 011
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~85 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: The Fresh Market 011 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Food City Store #735 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Food City Store #735 averages 3.0 TCR (89% 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 #735 TCR series: 2016=3 · 2017=7.8 · 2018=1.8 · 2019=5.4 · 2020=0 · 2021=1.6 · 2022=1.6 · BLS 3.4

Where Food City Store #735 falls in its industry

30,654 Supermarkets establishments

Safer than 76% 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 #121 safest of 494 Supermarkets employers in Tennessee.

Food City Store #735 (85 employees, TCR 3.0) 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 #735
Food City Store #735 (85 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Food City Store #735 has fewer 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 1.6 1.6 1 0 0
2021 1.6 1.6 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 5.4 3.6 3 0 0
2018 1.8 0.0 1 0 0
2017 7.8 6.3 5 0 0
2016 3.0 3.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · TN · Chattanooga

30,654 Supermarkets employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 695 employers in Chattanooga, 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 The Fresh Market 011 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Fresh Market 214 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR NORTHFIELD 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 052-TAOS NM 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Harriman Utility Board 85 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cleveland Utilities - Water/Wastewater Division 85 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Parkes Companies 85 FTE
STATE-SIZE 104561 - TVA Allen ALF Ash Pond Closure Project 85 FTE
CITY-NEAR CHATTANOOGA COKE 8,650 FTE
CITY-NEAR CHATTANOOGA FOOD 8,650 FTE
CITY-NEAR USXpress 7,385 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cardiology GB 6,606 FTE
NAT-TCR Wear Technology 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Main Office 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR R. Montanez Farms, LLC 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Tops #428 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Seafood City Supermarket - Shadow Mountain 85 FTE
NAT-SIZE Seafood City Supermarket - Carson 85 FTE
NAT-SIZE CHA-ODFL 85 FTE
NAT-SIZE Waveguide 85 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.