Grocery stores · Tennessee

Price Less Foods #469

Kingsport, TN · ~36 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.7
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Price Less Foods #469 runs at 79% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Grocery stores workplace, earning a grade B.

Price Less Foods #469: 2.7 TCR = 79% of Grocery stores BLS 3.4 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Price Less Foods #469 safety composite

Price Less Foods #469 scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 87% 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).

B

76/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% 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

−0.6

2016→2022

Price Less Foods #469 injury rate improved

Price Less Foods #469's TCR fell 0.6 from 3.8 in 2016 to 3.1 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2018 at 4.0 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=3.8 · 2017=0.0 · 2018=4.0 · 2019=4.0 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=3.8 · 2022=3.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade B · TCR 2.7 · 79% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #84/494
  • PHOTO The Fresh Market 086
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~36 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: The Fresh Market 086 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Price Less Foods #469 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Price Less Foods #469 averages 2.7 TCR (79% 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 #469 TCR series: 2016=3.8 · 2017=0 · 2018=4 · 2019=4 · 2020=0 · 2021=3.8 · 2022=3.1 · BLS 3.4

Where Price Less Foods #469 falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery stores establishments

Safer than 82% 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 #84 safest of 494 Grocery stores employers in Tennessee.

Price Less Foods #469 (36 employees, TCR 2.7) 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 #469
Price Less Foods #469 (36 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Price Less Foods #469 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 3.1 0.0 1 0 0
2021 3.8 3.8 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 4.0 4.0 1 0 0
2018 4.0 4.0 1 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 3.8 3.8 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · TN · Kingsport

30,654 Grocery stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 152 employers in Kingsport, 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 086 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR FoodTown #011 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR C &T's Bargain Market 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Franklin Markets 2.7 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 Eastman Kingsport Site 7,258 FTE
CITY-NEAR Holston Valley Medical Center 1,733 FTE
CITY-NEAR Eastman Chemical Company Kinsport TN- BSL 1,206 FTE
CITY-NEAR BLUE RIDGE MEDICAL MANAGEMENT CORPORATION - VA 1,073 FTE
NAT-TCR DPT - Distribution Drive 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 6040 Hillside RTS 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Weiner Iron 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Hammond Place 2.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Price Less Foods #590 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Save A Lot #138 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Food Giant #588 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Star #577 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, 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.