Home health care agencies · Alabama

Compassus Hospice Birmingham IPU

Birmingham, AL · ~19 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
5.6
Avg TCR
5.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Compassus Hospice Birmingham IPU runs at 108% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Home health care agencies workplace, earning a grade C.

Compassus Hospice Birmingham IPU: 5.6 TCR = 108% of Home health care agencies BLS 5.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Compassus Hospice Birmingham IPU safety composite

Compassus Hospice Birmingham IPU scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 13%), 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).

F

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% 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%).

Compassus Hospice Birmingham IPU held a steady TCR band

Compassus Hospice Birmingham IPU's TCR held near 0.1 from 7.3 in 2021 to 7.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 7.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.32× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=7.3 · 2022=7.7 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=7.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 621610 · Birmingham, AL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 5.6 · 108% of ind

  • DART 7.4 DART
  • RANK #11/15
  • PHOTO Associated Home Care…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~19 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Associated Home Care Location 12 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Compassus Hospice Birmingham IPU in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Compassus Hospice Birmingham IPU averages 5.6 TCR (108% 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

Compassus Hospice Birmingham IPU TCR series: 2021=7.3 · 2022=7.7 · 2023=0 · 2024=7.4 · BLS 5.2

Where Compassus Hospice Birmingham IPU falls in its industry

3,635 Home health care agencies establishments

Safer than 38% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alabama alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 15 Home health care agencies employers in Alabama.

Compassus Hospice Birmingham IPU (19 employees, TCR 5.6) 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 Compassus Hospice Birmingham IPU
Compassus Hospice Birmingham IPU (19 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Compassus Hospice Birmingham IPU has fewer employees than the Home health care agencies median and a higher 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
2024 7.4 7.4 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 7.7 7.7 1 0 0
2021 7.3 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

621610 · AL · Birmingham

3,635 Home health care agencies employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 840 employers in Birmingham, AL · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Associated Home Care Location 12 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hillcrest Home Care 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Partners In Home Care, Inc 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR McAlester Hospice 5.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Selma 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Selma Operations Center 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hughes Companies, Inc. 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pine City Contractors, LLC 19 FTE
CITY-NEAR USD 9,165 FTE
CITY-NEAR CLASSIC FOODS 9,165 FTE
CITY-NEAR Corporate 8,650 FTE
CITY-NEAR BIRMINGHAM PACKERS 8,650 FTE
NAT-TCR NSH Manitowoc LLC D/B/A River's Bend Health Services 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Stericycle - San Antonio 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 5781 - Denver North 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Amazon.com Services LLC - DAU1 5.6 TCR

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. 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.