Home health care agencies · Ohio

BrightStar Care of Columbus

Columbus, OH · ~254 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
5.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

BrightStar Care of Columbus runs at 78% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Home health care agencies workplace, earning a grade B.

BrightStar Care of Columbus: 4.0 TCR = 78% of Home health care agencies BLS 5.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

BrightStar Care of Columbus safety composite

BrightStar Care of Columbus scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 55% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% 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%).

BrightStar Care of Columbus held a steady TCR band

BrightStar Care of Columbus's TCR held near 0.3 from 4.8 in 2018 to 5.2 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 0.36× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=4.8 · 2019=3.0 · 2020=3.2 · 2021=5.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 621610 · Columbus, OH AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 4.0 · 78% of ind

  • DART 1.5 DART
  • RANK #76/131
  • PHOTO 0260 - SCP
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~254 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 0260 - SCP (0.0 TCR gap)

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BrightStar Care of Columbus in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows BrightStar Care of Columbus averages 4.0 TCR (78% of the Home health care agencies BLS benchmark).

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

BrightStar Care of Columbus TCR series: 2018=4.8 · 2019=3 · 2020=3.2 · 2021=5.2 · BLS 5.2

Where BrightStar Care of Columbus falls in its industry

3,635 Home health care agencies establishments

Safer than 54% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #76 safest of 131 Home health care agencies employers in Ohio.

BrightStar Care of Columbus (254 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate BrightStar Care of Columbus
BrightStar Care of Columbus (254 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 4.4

BrightStar Care of Columbus has more employees than the Home health care agencies median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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 5.2 1.5 7 0 0
2020 3.2 2.1 3 0 0
2019 3.0 1.5 4 0 0
2018 4.8 0.0 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

621610 · OH · Columbus

3,635 Home health care agencies employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 1,500 employers in Columbus, OH · 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 0260 - SCP 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pinnacle Home Care - Pinellas 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR TWA 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nashville PD 4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Forge Biologics 254 FTE
STATE-SIZE JBT Sandusky 254 FTE
STATE-SIZE DRB Akron 254 FTE
STATE-SIZE Acme Fresh Market #14 254 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nationwide Children's Hospital 13,367 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nationwide Children's Hospital Main Campus 10,116 FTE
CITY-NEAR Riverside Methodist Hospital 9,759 FTE
CITY-NEAR North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : CMH1 5,057 FTE
NAT-TCR Shepherdsville III 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Unit 5: Parks & Recreation 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Tucson 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Hyundai Mobis Alabama 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE BT Mount Prospect 254 FTE
NAT-SIZE Phoenix Paper Wickliffe LLC 254 FTE
NAT-SIZE Historic Old Central High School 254 FTE
NAT-SIZE N1 - Allentown 254 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, 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.