Sandwich shops, limited-service · Tennessee

The Cafe at Thistle Farms

Nashville, TN · ~23 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
17.2
Avg TCR
3.0
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

The Cafe at Thistle Farms runs at 575% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Sandwich shops, limited-service workplace, earning a grade F.

The Cafe at Thistle Farms: 17.2 TCR = 575% of Sandwich shops, limited-service BLS 3.0 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

The Cafe at Thistle Farms safety composite

The Cafe at Thistle Farms scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 4%), 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).

F

18/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 17.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% 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

−13.2

2023→2024

The Cafe at Thistle Farms injury rate improved

The Cafe at Thistle Farms's TCR fell 13.2 from 23.8 in 2023 to 10.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 23.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.62× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=23.8 · 2024=10.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 722513 · Nashville, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 17.2 · 575% of ind

  • DART 10.7 DART
  • RANK P4
  • PHOTO Meson Sandwiches 025
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~23 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Meson Sandwiches 025 (0.1 TCR gap)

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The Cafe at Thistle Farms in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows The Cafe at Thistle Farms averages 17.2 TCR (575% of the Sandwich shops, limited-service BLS benchmark).

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

The Cafe at Thistle Farms TCR series: 2023=23.8 · 2024=10.7 · BLS 3.0

Where The Cafe at Thistle Farms falls in its industry

1,014 Sandwich shops, limited-servic establishments

Safer than 4% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
The Cafe at Thistle Farms (23 employees, TCR 17.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 34 employees and a TCR of 4.8 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate The Cafe at Thistle Farms
The Cafe at Thistle Farms (23 employees, TCR 17.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 34 employees and a TCR of 4.8

The Cafe at Thistle Farms has fewer employees than the Sandwich shops, limited-service median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.8. 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 10.7 10.7 2 0 0
2023 23.8 15.9 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

722513 · TN · Nashville

1,014 Sandwich shops, limited-service employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 1,187 employers in Nashville, 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 Meson Sandwiches 025 17.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 44008 - KFC/LJS 17.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Denny's Store #317 16.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Boudin SF - Sacramento 17.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Manchester DREMC 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE East Tennessee Mechanical Contractors 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE CDE - Metro Nashville District Energy System 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Avenue Construction 23 FTE
CITY-NEAR Parallon Enterprises, LLC 15,267 FTE
CITY-NEAR METROPOLITAN GOVT. OF NASHVILLE,& DAVIDSON COUNTY 10,278 FTE
CITY-NEAR METRO NASHVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOLS 9,049 FTE
CITY-NEAR TriStar Centennial Medical Center 3,106 FTE
NAT-TCR Devlin Manor Nursing and Rehabilitation Center 17.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Region 5-Pendleton 17.2 TCR
NAT-TCR The Inn at Fountain Park 17.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Raptor Enterprises, Inc 17.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Environmental Science International, Inc. 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE JL Components 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wellsaw 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Newton Service Center 23 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. 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.