General medical and surgical hospitals · Tennessee

Ballad Health-Unicoi County Hospital

Erwin, TN · ~73 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
3.5
Avg TCR
7.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ballad Health-Unicoi County Hospital runs at 47% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical General medical and surgical hospitals workplace, earning a grade A.

Ballad Health-Unicoi County Hospital: 3.5 TCR = 47% of General medical and surgical hospitals BLS 7.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ballad Health-Unicoi County Hospital safety composite

Ballad Health-Unicoi County Hospital scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 74% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 45%), 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).

C

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% 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-Unicoi County Hospital: 1.7 → 5.7 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 5.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.54× in 2024

Ballad Health-Unicoi County Hospital's TCR rose 4.0 from 1.7 in 2022 to 5.7 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.54× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 622110 · Erwin, TN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 3.5 · 47% of ind

  • DART 1.9 DART
  • RANK #52/157
  • PHOTO Randolph Memorial Ho…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~73 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Randolph Memorial Hospital District (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ballad Health-Unicoi County Hospital in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ballad Health-Unicoi County Hospital averages 3.5 TCR (47% of the General medical and surgical hospitals BLS benchmark).

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

Ballad Health-Unicoi County Hospital TCR series: 2022=1.7 · 2023=3.1 · 2024=5.7 · BLS 7.5

Where Ballad Health-Unicoi County Hospital falls in its industry

6,862 General medical and surgical h establishments

Safer than 74% 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 #52 safest of 157 General medical and surgical h employers in Tennessee.

Ballad Health-Unicoi County Hospital (73 employees, TCR 3.5) 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-Unicoi County Hospital
Ballad Health-Unicoi County Hospital (73 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Ballad Health-Unicoi County Hospital has fewer employees than the General medical and surgical hospitals 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 5.7 1.9 3 0 0
2023 3.1 1.6 2 0 0
2022 1.7 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

622110 · TN · Erwin

6,862 General medical and surgical hospitals employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 24 employers in Erwin, 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 Randolph Memorial Hospital District 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR OLG Lafayette General Medical Center 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Union Genral Hospital 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Russell J Ebeid Childrens Hospital 3.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Kingsport Service Center 73 FTE
STATE-SIZE Forcum Lannom Contractors, LLC 73 FTE
STATE-SIZE J&S Construction 73 FTE
STATE-SIZE construction 73 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nuclear Fuel Services, Inc. 722 FTE
CITY-NEAR TN-Tennessee, LLC. 195 FTE
CITY-NEAR TN Tennessee, LLC 193 FTE
CITY-NEAR Erwin Health Care Center 135 FTE
NAT-TCR Juneau Library System 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Perfection Group, Inc., Lexington 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Southerland Inc. Oregon 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Palmer Services LLC 3.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sprinkmann Sons Corporation 73 FTE
NAT-SIZE Farm and Fleet of Platteville 73 FTE
NAT-SIZE OG&E-Central District Office 73 FTE
NAT-SIZE BERLIN 73 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.