Grocery stores · Tennessee

The Fresh Market 021

Knoxville, TN · ~64 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.5
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

The Fresh Market 021 runs at 162% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Grocery stores workplace, earning a grade D.

The Fresh Market 021: 5.5 TCR = 162% of Grocery stores BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

The Fresh Market 021 safety composite

The Fresh Market 021 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 33%), 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)
D 5.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% 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

The Fresh Market 021: 4.1 → 8.5 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 8.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.77× in 2021

The Fresh Market 021's TCR rose 4.4 from 4.1 in 2016 to 8.5 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 0.77× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 5.5 · 162% of ind

  • DART 4.2 DART
  • RANK #397/494
  • PHOTO Rouses Market #51
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~64 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Rouses Market #51 (0.0 TCR gap)

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The Fresh Market 021 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows The Fresh Market 021 averages 5.5 TCR (162% of the Grocery stores BLS benchmark).

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

The Fresh Market 021 TCR series: 2016=4.1 · 2017=8.1 · 2018=2.1 · 2019=4.7 · 2021=8.5 · BLS 3.4

Where The Fresh Market 021 falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery stores establishments

Safer than 39% 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 #397 safest of 494 Grocery stores employers in Tennessee.

The Fresh Market 021 (64 employees, TCR 5.5) 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 The Fresh Market 021
The Fresh Market 021 (64 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

The Fresh Market 021 has fewer employees than the Grocery stores median and a higher 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
2021 8.5 4.2 4 0 0
2019 4.7 4.7 2 0 0
2018 2.1 2.1 1 0 0
2017 8.1 6.1 4 0 0
2016 4.1 2.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · TN · Knoxville

30,654 Grocery stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 747 employers in Knoxville, 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 Rouses Market #51 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR FAREWAY STORES, INC. 102 FAIRMONT 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 0667 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 018-00729 5.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Alabama GP Cleanout Department 64 FTE
STATE-SIZE Middle TN Electric (Murfreesboro Office) 64 FTE
STATE-SIZE Blaine Construction Corporation 64 FTE
STATE-SIZE Construction Management Company 64 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cellular Sales Services Group LLC 6,387 FTE
CITY-NEAR University Health System, Inc 5,215 FTE
CITY-NEAR Functional Pathways of TN LLC 2,258 FTE
CITY-NEAR HES Facilities Services K-12 2,157 FTE
NAT-TCR Dayton-Phoenix Group - Dayton 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Fisher Hydraulics 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Chemical Manufacturing Division 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR The Ritz - Carlton, Amelia Island 5.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Plant 5 64 FTE
NAT-SIZE Werner Enterprises/SPIOH Terminal 64 FTE
NAT-SIZE Werner Enterprises/Joliet IL Terminal 64 FTE
NAT-SIZE Scarborough Store 64 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: 2021, 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.