Group homes, intellectual and developmental disability · Tennessee

Dawn of Hope, Inc.

Johnson City, TN · ~146 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.9
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Dawn of Hope, Inc. runs at 182% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Group homes, intellectual and developmental disability workplace, earning a grade D.

Dawn of Hope, Inc.: 6.9 TCR = 182% of Group homes, intellectual and developmental disability BLS 3.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dawn of Hope, Inc. safety composite

Dawn of Hope, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 56% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 0%), 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

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 0% 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

Dawn of Hope, Inc.: 4.4 → 9.4 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 9.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.19× in 2023

Dawn of Hope, Inc.'s TCR rose 4.9 from 4.4 in 2021 to 9.4 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0.19× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 623210 · Johnson City, TN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.9 · 182% of ind

  • DART 1.3 DART
  • RANK #32/38
  • PHOTO Diamond Place- Oskal…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~146 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Diamond Place- Oskaloosa (0.0 TCR gap)

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Dawn of Hope, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dawn of Hope, Inc. averages 6.9 TCR (182% of the Group homes, intellectual and developmental disability BLS benchmark).

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

Dawn of Hope, Inc. TCR series: 2021=4.4 · 2023=9.4 · BLS 3.8

Where Dawn of Hope, Inc. falls in its industry

2,261 Group homes, intellectual and establishments

Safer than 42% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #32 safest of 38 Group homes, intellectual and employers in Tennessee.

Dawn of Hope, Inc. (146 employees, TCR 6.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 5.8 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 0200400600 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Dawn of Hope, Inc.
Dawn of Hope, Inc. (146 employees, TCR 6.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 5.8

Dawn of Hope, Inc. has more employees than the Group homes, intellectual and developmen median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.8. 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
2023 9.4 1.3 14 0 0
2021 4.4 2.5 7 0 1

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

623210 · TN · Johnson City

2,261 Group homes, intellectual and developmental disability 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 Diamond Place- Oskaloosa 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mainstay Life Services 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6443-553767 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Community Work and Independence 6.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Middle Tennessee Natural Gas Utility District 146 FTE
STATE-SIZE Johnson & Galyon, Inc. 146 FTE
STATE-SIZE HC CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION GROUP 146 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tele-Optics Communication Inc. 146 FTE
CITY-NEAR East Tennessee State University 4,802 FTE
CITY-NEAR Johnson City Medical Center 2,099 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ballad Health 1,586 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mountain States Health Alliance 1,033 FTE
NAT-TCR Denver Food & Bev 6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Americraft Cookware LLC 6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Cicero 6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Butte Senior Living 6.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hilex Poly - Milesburg 146 FTE
NAT-SIZE Shorenstein Realty Services, L.P. - SHO 146 FTE
NAT-SIZE Camarillo Healthcare Center 146 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lakefront Brewery 146 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: 2023, 2021. 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.