Grocery stores · Tennessee

Food Giant #542

Linden, TN · ~36 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

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

Food Giant #542 runs at 100% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Grocery stores workplace, earning a grade C.

Food Giant #542: 3.4 TCR = 100% of Grocery stores BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Food Giant #542 safety composite

Food Giant #542 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 47%), 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

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% 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

−4.3

2018→2022

Food Giant #542 injury rate improved

Food Giant #542's TCR fell 4.3 from 7.1 in 2018 to 2.8 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2021 at 7.2 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.82× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=7.1 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=7.2 · 2022=2.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Linden, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.4 · 100% of ind

  • DART 2.8 DART
  • RANK #165/494
  • PHOTO The Fresh Market 029
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~36 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: The Fresh Market 029 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Food Giant #542 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Food Giant #542 averages 3.4 TCR (100% of the Grocery stores BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Food Giant #542 TCR series: 2018=7.1 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=7.2 · 2022=2.8 · BLS 3.4

Where Food Giant #542 falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery stores establishments

Safer than 70% 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 #165 safest of 494 Grocery stores employers in Tennessee.

Food Giant #542 (36 employees, TCR 3.4) 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 Giant #542
Food Giant #542 (36 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Food Giant #542 has fewer employees than the Grocery stores 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 2.8 2.8 1 0 0
2021 7.2 7.2 2 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 7.1 3.5 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · TN · Linden

30,654 Grocery stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 8 employers in Linden, 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 029 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lowes Foods #254 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Super Foodtown of Sea Girt - 268 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 8019 3.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Benton 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Waynesboro Office, 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE 0000000931 WATER/SEWER-WATER FCLTY MAINT 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Chris Woods Construction Company, Inc. 36 FTE
CITY-NEAR NYX-Linden 293 FTE
CITY-NEAR Perry County Government 238 FTE
CITY-NEAR Linden Sawmill 71 FTE
CITY-NEAR #031 Food Giant 40 FTE
NAT-TCR Anderson Ford of St Joseph, LLC (dba Anderson Kia Mitsubishi) 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Harris and Heavener Excavating 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Kanawha Place 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Tipton Place 3.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Food Giant #588 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Star #577 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Alta Equipment Company Ottawa 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Price Less Foods #590 36 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. 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.