Hospitals, general pediatric · Tennessee

Ballad Health

Johnson City, TN · ~1,586 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.4
Avg TCR
7.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ballad Health runs at 6% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Hospitals, general pediatric workplace, earning a grade A.

Ballad Health: 0.4 TCR = 6% of Hospitals, general pediatric BLS 7.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ballad Health safety composite

Ballad Health scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 99% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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

81/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 99% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

Ballad Health: 0.0 → 0.6 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 0.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.69× in 2024

Ballad Health's TCR rose 0.6 from 0.0 in 2019 to 0.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 0.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.69× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 622110 · Johnson City, TN AT/BELOW-IND · LARGE

Grade A · TCR 0.4 · 6% of ind

  • DART 0.3 DART
  • RANK #24/157
  • PHOTO Adventist HealthCare…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 27 inj
  • SIZE ~1,586 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Adventist HealthCare, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ballad Health in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ballad Health averages 0.4 TCR (6% of the Hospitals, general pediatric BLS benchmark).

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

Ballad Health TCR series: 2019=0 · 2021=0.2 · 2022=0.9 · 2023=0.3 · 2024=0.6 · BLS 7.5

Where Ballad Health falls in its industry

6,862 Hospitals, general pediatric establishments

Safer than 99% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #24 safest of 157 Hospitals, general pediatric employers in Tennessee.

Ballad Health (1,586 employees, TCR 0.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2 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 02,0004,0006,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Ballad Health
Ballad Health (1,586 employees, TCR 0.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Ballad Health has more employees than the Hospitals, general pediatric median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.2. 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 0.6 0.3 10 1 0
2023 0.3 0.2 5 0 0
2022 0.9 0.5 9 2 0
2021 0.2 0.2 3 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

622110 · TN · Johnson City

6,862 Hospitals, general pediatric employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 177 employers in Johnson City, 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 Adventist HealthCare, Inc. 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR THSP-THSP - Triad Hospitalist 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR SH - Patient Financial Services 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1855-WIMIL31 0.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pellissippi State Community College 1,593 FTE
STATE-SIZE FORT SANDERS REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER 1,569 FTE
STATE-SIZE Williamson Medical Center 1,611 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dollywood 1,561 FTE
CITY-NEAR East Tennessee State University 4,802 FTE
CITY-NEAR Johnson City Medical Center 2,099 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mountain States Health Alliance 1,033 FTE
CITY-NEAR AO Smith Fairview Ave 948 FTE
NAT-TCR Goshawk 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Gibson Generating Station 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Bloomington Operations Center 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR SM Electric 0.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Saint Anne's Hospital 1,586 FTE
NAT-SIZE CSL Behring LLC 1,586 FTE
NAT-SIZE CHRISTUS St. Frances Cabrini Hospital 1,587 FTE
NAT-SIZE ZOLL Medical 1,585 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, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.