Food Service Contractors · Tennessee

Sodexo at Eastman Chemical

Kingsport, TN · ~35 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.6
Avg TCR
3.0
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sodexo at Eastman Chemical runs at 287% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Food Service Contractors workplace, earning a grade F.

Sodexo at Eastman Chemical: 8.6 TCR = 287% of Food Service Contractors BLS 3.0 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sodexo at Eastman Chemical safety composite

Sodexo at Eastman Chemical scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 13%), 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

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% 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

Sodexo at Eastman Chemical: 0.0 → 49.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 49.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Sodexo at Eastman Chemical's TCR rose 49.2 from 0.0 in 2016 to 49.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 722310 · Kingsport, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.6 · 287% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #122/133
  • PHOTO Delta - SLC
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~35 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Delta - SLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sodexo at Eastman Chemical in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sodexo at Eastman Chemical averages 8.6 TCR (287% of the Food Service Contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Sodexo at Eastman Chemical TCR series: 2016=0 · 2020=2.4 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=49.2 · BLS 3.0

Where Sodexo at Eastman Chemical falls in its industry

6,952 Food Service Contractors establishments

Safer than 13% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #122 safest of 133 Food Service Contractors employers in Tennessee.

Sodexo at Eastman Chemical (35 employees, TCR 8.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Sodexo at Eastman Chemical
Sodexo at Eastman Chemical (35 employees, TCR 8.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Sodexo at Eastman Chemical has fewer employees than the Food Service Contractors median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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
2024 49.2 0.0 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 2.4 2.4 1 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

722310 · TN · Kingsport

6,952 Food Service Contractors 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 Delta - SLC 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR MORTON HOSPITAL 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pioneer College Caterers, Inc. - Unit 031/Union College 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Havasu Regional Medical Center - FNS 8.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE TN 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE 810 CRESCENT CENTRE DR FRANKLIN TN 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE 200 NOAH DR FRANKLIN TN 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Distribution and Business Office 35 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 Momentum WORK, Inc. (Santa Maria) 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR North America : Ludlow 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR HCA Florida Putnam Hospital 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Legacy Wendy's-223 8.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE C Harper - Chrysler Dodge Connellsville 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Building 5 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hampton Inn Seattle 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ashburton Reservoir 35 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 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.