Home health care agencies · Illinois

First Care Health Care 26-3869479

Springfield, IL · ~34 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
8.5
Avg TCR
5.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

First Care Health Care 26-3869479 runs at 164% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Home health care agencies workplace, earning a grade D.

First Care Health Care 26-3869479: 8.5 TCR = 164% of Home health care agencies BLS 5.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

First Care Health Care 26-3869479 safety composite

First Care Health Care 26-3869479 scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 83% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 17%), 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

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% 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%).

TCR Δ

−11.0

2016→2019

First Care Health Care 26-3869479 injury rate improved

First Care Health Care 26-3869479's TCR fell 11.0 from 11.0 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 16.1 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=11.0 · 2017=7.0 · 2018=16.1 · 2019=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 621610 · Springfield, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 8.5 · 164% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #52/60
  • PHOTO Public Health Nurses
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~34 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Public Health Nurses (0.0 TCR gap)

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First Care Health Care 26-3869479 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows First Care Health Care 26-3869479 averages 8.5 TCR (164% 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

First Care Health Care 26-3869479 TCR series: 2016=11 · 2017=7 · 2018=16.1 · 2019=0 · BLS 5.2

Where First Care Health Care 26-3869479 falls in its industry

3,635 Home health care agencies establishments

Safer than 17% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #52 safest of 60 Home health care agencies employers in Illinois.

First Care Health Care 26-3869479 (34 employees, TCR 8.5) 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 First Care Health Care 26-3869479
First Care Health Care 26-3869479 (34 employees, TCR 8.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 4.4

First Care Health Care 26-3869479 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
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 16.1 6.5 5 0 0
2017 7.0 3.5 2 0 0
2016 11.0 11.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

621610 · IL · Springfield

3,635 Home health care agencies employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 311 employers in Springfield, IL · 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 Public Health Nurses 8.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Seton Home Care Kyle 8.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Roanoke Hospice 8.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR PLAINS 8.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Cresco Labs - Kankakee 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kendall Energy Facility 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Adams Electric 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Town of Normal - Water 34 FTE
CITY-NEAR Memorial Medical Center 4,160 FTE
CITY-NEAR Springfield Memorial Hospital 3,837 FTE
CITY-NEAR Springfield Clinic, LLP 2,870 FTE
CITY-NEAR HSHS St. John's Hospital 2,696 FTE
NAT-TCR Windsor Senior Living 8.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Wehmeier Drywall, Inc. 8.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Fleet Operations Training 8.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Wendy's Store #378 8.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Comm HVAC NA and EMEA : SVC-Gulf South District : SVC-Pensacola FL-USA 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brookdale Senior Living 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Comm HVAC NA and EMEA : SVC-Southwest District : SVC-El Paso TX-USA 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Golf Club 34 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: 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.