Sports and Recreation Instruction · Tennessee

Varsity Brands

Memphis, TN · ~3,819 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
4.8
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Varsity Brands runs at 346% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Sports and Recreation Instruction workplace, earning a grade F.

Varsity Brands: 4.8 TCR = 346% of Sports and Recreation Instruction BLS 1.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Varsity Brands safety composite

Varsity Brands scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 58% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 38%), 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

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.1 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% 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

Varsity Brands: 4.5 → 5.2 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 5.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.23× in 2017

Varsity Brands's TCR rose 0.6 from 4.5 in 2016 to 5.2 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 0.23× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 611620 · Memphis, TN ABOVE-IND · LARGE

Grade F · TCR 4.8 · 346% of ind

  • DART 1.1 DART
  • RANK P38
  • PHOTO Professional Ski Ins…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 154 inj
  • SIZE ~3,819 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Professional Ski Instructors of America (0.2 TCR gap)

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Varsity Brands in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Varsity Brands averages 4.8 TCR (346% of the Sports and Recreation Instruction BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-09-26

Varsity Brands TCR series: 2016=4.5 · 2017=5.2 · BLS 1.4

Where Varsity Brands falls in its industry

13 Sports and Recreation Instruct establishments

Safer than 38% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Varsity Brands (3,819 employees, TCR 4.8) among 6 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 195 employees and a TCR of 4.1 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 7 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate PADIRecreation DepartmentCooperstown Dreams ParkBear Paddle Swim SchoolVarsity SpiritProfessional Ski Instructors of AmericaVarsity Brands
Varsity Brands (3,819 employees, TCR 4.8) among 6 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 195 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Varsity Brands has more employees than the Sports and Recreation Instruction median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.1. 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
2017 5.2 1.1 81 3 0
2016 4.5 0.6 73 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611620 · TN · Memphis

13 Sports and Recreation Instruction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 1,330 employers in Memphis, 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 Professional Ski Instructors of America 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Varsity Spirit 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Recreation Department 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Challenger Sports Corporation - HQ 3.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Chattanooga, TN (WC USX CHT) 3,803 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nike Apparel 3,766 FTE
STATE-SIZE General Motors Springhill ASSY 3,688 FTE
STATE-SIZE Spring Hill Manufacturing 3,514 FTE
CITY-NEAR FedEx 2903 SPRANKLE DR 12,398 FTE
CITY-NEAR 381940311 9,861 FTE
CITY-NEAR American Residential Services 5,775 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Jude Children's Research Hospital 5,599 FTE
NAT-TCR N and R of Sweet Springs Inc 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 0096 - Greenville, Sc 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR CA-Fontana-Operating Center 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Builders Concrete East, LLC - North Windham 4.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Zimmer Biomet 3,818 FTE
NAT-SIZE People Inc. 3,823 FTE
NAT-SIZE Torrance Memorial Medical Center 3,808 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4795-AA-PHX-PHOENIX-PHX-TRML 3,806 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: 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.