Outpatient mental health centers and clinics (except hospitals) · Georgia

First Light Wilderness

Dahlonega, GA · ~26 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
23.0
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

First Light Wilderness runs at 606% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Outpatient mental health centers and clinics (except hospitals) workplace, earning a grade F.

First Light Wilderness: 23.0 TCR = 606% of Outpatient mental health centers and clinics (except hospitals) BLS 3.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

First Light Wilderness safety composite

First Light Wilderness scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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).

F

13/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 23.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 0% of industry peers

DART rate
F 17.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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

−17.7

2021→2023

First Light Wilderness injury rate improved

First Light Wilderness's TCR fell 17.7 from 34.7 in 2021 to 17.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 34.7 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.74× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=34.7 · 2022=17.4 · 2023=17.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 621420 · Dahlonega, GA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 23.0 · 606% of ind

  • DART 17.0 DART
  • RANK #6/6
  • PHOTO New Vision Wilderness
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~26 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: New Vision Wilderness (0.0 TCR gap)

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First Light Wilderness in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows First Light Wilderness averages 23.0 TCR (606% of the Outpatient mental health centers and clinics (except hospitals) BLS benchmark).

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

First Light Wilderness TCR series: 2021=34.7 · 2022=17.4 · 2023=17 · BLS 3.8

Where First Light Wilderness falls in its industry

611 Outpatient mental health cente establishments

Safer than 0% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Georgia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 6 Outpatient mental health cente employers in Georgia.

First Light Wilderness (26 employees, TCR 23.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.1 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 05001,0001,500 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate First Light Wilderness
First Light Wilderness (26 employees, TCR 23.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.1

First Light Wilderness has fewer employees than the Outpatient mental health centers and cli median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.1. 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 17.0 17.0 5 0 0
2022 17.4 10.4 5 0 0
2021 34.7 30.4 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

621420 · GA · Dahlonega

611 Outpatient mental health centers and clinics (except hospitals) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 14,941 rated employers in Georgia with headcount on file · 28 employers in Dahlonega, GA · 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 New Vision Wilderness 23.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Choate Mental Health and Developmental Center 27.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Palms Behavioral Health 18.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Aviary Recovery Center 28.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE FPL Food Chatel Farms 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Unlimited Contract Services - Pine Grove, LA 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pilgrim's Pride Athens Hatchery 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hawkins Logging & Timber Co LLC 26 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2513 293 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2513 277 FTE
CITY-NEAR Koyo Bearings North America - Dahlonega Plant 217 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4021-500089300 190 FTE
NAT-TCR Gomaco Trolley 23.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 1056 23.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Booker Rest Home 23.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Trader Joe's 0520 Newington 23.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Steelhead Composites Headquarters 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE AZZ Galvanizing - St. Louis 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Jet Pulverizer Co., Inc. 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Midwest Doors, Inc. 26 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, 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.