Supermarkets · Virginia

Food City Store #849

Chilhowie, VA · ~126 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.0
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Food City Store #849 runs at 206% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Supermarkets workplace, earning a grade F.

Food City Store #849: 7.0 TCR = 206% of Supermarkets BLS 3.4 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Food City Store #849 safety composite

Food City Store #849 scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 68% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 26%), 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)
F 7.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 68% 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 #849: 3.4 → 3.7 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 16.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.18× in 2022

Food City Store #849's TCR rose 0.4 from 3.4 in 2016 to 3.7 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2020 at 16.6 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.18× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Chilhowie, VA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 7.0 · 206% of ind

  • DART 1.3 DART
  • RANK #1141/1241
  • PHOTO WM 4293
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 30 inj
  • SIZE ~126 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: WM 4293 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Food City Store #849 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Food City Store #849 averages 7.0 TCR (206% of the Supermarkets BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-09-26

Food City Store #849 TCR series: 2016=3.4 · 2017=10.2 · 2018=8.9 · 2019=5.1 · 2020=16.6 · 2021=1.2 · 2022=3.7 · BLS 3.4

Where Food City Store #849 falls in its industry

30,654 Supermarkets establishments

Safer than 26% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1141 safest of 1241 Supermarkets employers in Virginia.

Food City Store #849 (126 employees, TCR 7.0) 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 #849
Food City Store #849 (126 employees, TCR 7.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Food City Store #849 has more employees than the Supermarkets median and a higher 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 3.7 1.3 3 0 0
2021 1.2 1.2 1 0 0
2020 16.6 15.3 5 8 0
2019 5.1 3.9 4 0 0
2018 8.9 3.8 7 0 0
2017 10.2 5.1 8 0 0
2016 3.4 3.4 2 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · VA · Chilhowie

30,654 Supermarkets employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 11 employers in Chilhowie, VA · 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 WM 4293 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR SWY-0025-0025-01931 FAC-01931-FREMONT-CA 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6962-SWY 0025 0705 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6962-SWY 0029 2355 7.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Lake Manassas Health & Rehabilitation Center 126 FTE
STATE-SIZE Feld Entertainment Inc - D32 126 FTE
STATE-SIZE MECHANICVILLE (VAMEC) 126 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1911 Saville Row Retail Operations Center 126 FTE
CITY-NEAR W-L Construction & Paving, Inc. 279 FTE
CITY-NEAR VALLEY HEALTH CARE CENTER 225 FTE
CITY-NEAR Valley Operator LLC 171 FTE
CITY-NEAR Scholle IPN Chilhowie 156 FTE
NAT-TCR Bridger Rehab and Care Center 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Patrick's Signs Meade 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Stop & Shop 100593 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Pate Construction Company Inc. 7.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Seafood City Supermarket - Waipahu 126 FTE
NAT-SIZE Serta Dormae Products Lockhart 126 FTE
NAT-SIZE Food City Store #619 126 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cadence at Marietta 126 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.