Grocery stores · Tennessee

Price Less Foods #43

Athens, TN · ~38 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.3
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Price Less Foods #43 runs at 128% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Grocery stores workplace, earning a grade D.

Price Less Foods #43: 4.3 TCR = 128% of Grocery stores BLS 3.4 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Price Less Foods #43 safety composite

Price Less Foods #43 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 55% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 15%), 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

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% 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

Price Less Foods #43: 3.4 → 7.5 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 8.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.71× in 2022

Price Less Foods #43's TCR rose 4.1 from 3.4 in 2016 to 7.5 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2021 at 8.9 TCR. In 2022, DART was 1.71× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 4.3 · 128% of ind

  • DART 7.5 DART
  • RANK #277/494
  • PHOTO Shop Rite of Essex G…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~38 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Shop Rite of Essex Green (0.0 TCR gap)

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Price Less Foods #43 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Price Less Foods #43 averages 4.3 TCR (128% of the Grocery stores BLS benchmark).

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

Price Less Foods #43 TCR series: 2016=3.4 · 2017=3.3 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=7.4 · 2021=8.9 · 2022=7.5 · BLS 3.4

Where Price Less Foods #43 falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery stores establishments

Safer than 55% 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 #277 safest of 494 Grocery stores employers in Tennessee.

Price Less Foods #43 (38 employees, TCR 4.3) 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 Price Less Foods #43
Price Less Foods #43 (38 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Price Less Foods #43 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 7.5 7.5 2 0 0
2021 8.9 4.5 2 0 0
2020 7.4 3.7 2 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 3.3 0.0 1 0 0
2016 3.4 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · TN · Athens

30,654 Grocery stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 77 employers in Athens, 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 Shop Rite of Essex Green 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 701MKE 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 055-ALAMOGORDO 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 0530 4.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE D.R. Horton, Inc. - Memphis 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE Smith Douglas Nashville 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE J.A. Fielden Co, Inc. 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE Messer Construction - Knoxville, TN 38 FTE
CITY-NEAR DENSO Manufacturing Athens Tennessee, INC 1,659 FTE
CITY-NEAR DENSO Manufacturing Athens, TN INC 1,638 FTE
CITY-NEAR Starr Regional Medical Center 603 FTE
CITY-NEAR Adient Athens 540 FTE
NAT-TCR Sureway #519 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Fairfield Inn & Suites Portland North Harbor 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Paarlo Plastics 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Manheim Detroit 4.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Iga #451 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Piggly Wiggly #641 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Food Giant #652 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cash Saver #594 38 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.