Ambulance services, air or ground · Tennessee

Hamilton County EMS (Emergency Medical Services)

Chattanooga, TN · ~127 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.4
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hamilton County EMS (Emergency Medical Services) runs at 194% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Ambulance services, air or ground workplace, earning a grade D.

Hamilton County EMS (Emergency Medical Services): 7.4 TCR = 194% of Ambulance services, air or ground BLS 3.8 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hamilton County EMS (Emergency Medical Services) safety composite

Hamilton County EMS (Emergency Medical Services) scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 55% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 9%), 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

38/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 7.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% of industry peers

DART rate
F 16.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

Hamilton County EMS (Emergency Medical Services): 8.0 → 19.6 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 19.6 TCR · DART/TCR 2.3× in 2020

Hamilton County EMS (Emergency Medical Services)'s TCR rose 11.7 from 8.0 in 2016 to 19.6 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 2.3× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 621910 · Chattanooga, TN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 7.4 · 194% of ind

  • DART 16.9 DART
  • RANK #8/28
  • PHOTO NORTHSHORE EMS LLC
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 47 inj
  • SIZE ~127 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: NORTHSHORE EMS LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hamilton County EMS (Emergency Medical Services) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hamilton County EMS (Emergency Medical Services) averages 7.4 TCR (194% of the Ambulance services, air or ground BLS benchmark).

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

Hamilton County EMS (Emergency Medical Services) TCR series: 2016=8 · 2017=4.3 · 2018=2.4 · 2019=2.5 · 2020=19.6 · BLS 3.8

Where Hamilton County EMS (Emergency Medical Services) falls in its industry

976 Ambulance services, air or gro establishments

Safer than 55% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 8.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 28 Ambulance services, air or gro employers in Tennessee.

Hamilton County EMS (Emergency Medical Services) (127 employees, TCR 7.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 8.3 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 Hamilton County EMS (Emergency Medical Services)
Hamilton County EMS (Emergency Medical Services) (127 employees, TCR 7.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 8.3

Hamilton County EMS (Emergency Medical Services) has more employees than the Ambulance services, air or ground median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 8.3. 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
2020 19.6 16.9 20 23 0
2019 2.5 2.0 4 1 0
2018 2.4 2.4 4 0 0
2017 4.3 2.5 6 1 0
2016 8.0 6.2 13 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

621910 · TN · Chattanooga

976 Ambulance services, air or ground employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 695 employers in Chattanooga, 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 NORTHSHORE EMS LLC 7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Palm Beach Operations 7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pocono Mountain Regional EMS 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Superior Air-Ground Ambulance 7.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Dixie Roofing, Inc. - LaFollette 127 FTE
STATE-SIZE 001 Memphis TN Barnhart Plant Services LLC 127 FTE
STATE-SIZE Honest Abe Log Homes, Inc. 127 FTE
STATE-SIZE Murfreesboro Container 127 FTE
CITY-NEAR CHATTANOOGA COKE 8,650 FTE
CITY-NEAR CHATTANOOGA FOOD 8,650 FTE
CITY-NEAR USXpress 7,385 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cardiology GB 6,606 FTE
NAT-TCR 43-BRIGADAS 7.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Store #21 7.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 5502 MD Drivers 7.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Farm 7.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Quality Manpower 127 FTE
NAT-SIZE 35-Usf-S&H Worldgate 127 FTE
NAT-SIZE CHI St. Francis Health 127 FTE
NAT-SIZE Park Lane Nursing Home 127 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: 2020, 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.