Supermarkets · Virginia

Food City Store #865

Galax, VA · ~118 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.8
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Food City Store #865 runs at 141% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Supermarkets workplace, earning a grade D.

Food City Store #865: 4.8 TCR = 141% of Supermarkets BLS 3.4 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Food City Store #865 safety composite

Food City Store #865 scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 60% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 48%), 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

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% 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

−1.0

2016→2022

Food City Store #865 injury rate improved

Food City Store #865's TCR fell 1.0 from 2.9 in 2016 to 1.9 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2018 at 7.8 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.39× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=2.9 · 2017=7.5 · 2018=7.8 · 2019=2.9 · 2020=5.8 · 2021=5.0 · 2022=1.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 4.8 · 141% of ind

  • DART 1.9 DART
  • RANK #952/1241
  • PHOTO FAREWAY STORES, INC.…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 27 inj
  • SIZE ~118 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: FAREWAY STORES, INC. 561 WAVERLY (0.0 TCR gap)

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Food City Store #865 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Food City Store #865 averages 4.8 TCR (141% 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 #865 TCR series: 2016=2.9 · 2017=7.5 · 2018=7.8 · 2019=2.9 · 2020=5.8 · 2021=5 · 2022=1.9 · BLS 3.4

Where Food City Store #865 falls in its industry

30,654 Supermarkets establishments

Safer than 48% 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 #952 safest of 1241 Supermarkets employers in Virginia.

Food City Store #865 (118 employees, TCR 4.8) 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 #865
Food City Store #865 (118 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Food City Store #865 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 1.9 1.9 2 0 0
2021 5.0 4.1 6 0 0
2020 5.8 4.7 5 0 0
2019 2.9 2.9 2 0 0
2018 7.8 6.2 5 0 0
2017 7.5 7.5 5 0 0
2016 2.9 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · VA · Galax

30,654 Supermarkets employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 31 employers in Galax, 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 FAREWAY STORES, INC. 561 WAVERLY 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 0456 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 1658 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 10190 Coral Gables 4.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Howard Shockey & Sons 118 FTE
STATE-SIZE I-64 Capacity Improvs. Segment II 118 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4201 Park Place Ct. Glen Allen VA 23060 118 FTE
STATE-SIZE Inspiration Plumbing LLC 118 FTE
CITY-NEAR DLP TWIN COUNTY REGIONAL HEALTHCARE LLC 462 FTE
CITY-NEAR Twin Co Regional Hospital 390 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1023 375 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1023 359 FTE
NAT-TCR Rochelle 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Sky Harbor Distribution Center 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR The Roane School - Mt. Zion 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR LKF-ODFL 4.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Food City Store #703 118 FTE
NAT-SIZE Food City Store #687 118 FTE
NAT-SIZE Food City Store #664 118 FTE
NAT-SIZE Seafood City Supermarket - Maryland 118 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.