Home health agencies · Tennessee

HHCOET - Whitwell

Whitwell, TN · ~17 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
9.7
Avg TCR
5.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

HHCOET - Whitwell runs at 186% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Home health agencies workplace, earning a grade D.

HHCOET - Whitwell: 9.7 TCR = 186% of Home health agencies BLS 5.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

HHCOET - Whitwell safety composite

HHCOET - Whitwell scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 5%), 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

19/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers

DART rate
F 12.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% 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%).

Rising injury rate

HHCOET - Whitwell: 0.0 → 12.1 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 17.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.25× in 2018

HHCOET - Whitwell's TCR rose 12.1 from 0.0 in 2016 to 12.1 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 17.0 TCR. In 2018, DART was 1.25× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 621610 · Whitwell, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 9.7 · 186% of ind

  • DART 12.1 DART
  • RANK #59/66
  • PHOTO Volunteer Home Care
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~17 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Volunteer Home Care (0.0 TCR gap)

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HHCOET - Whitwell in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows HHCOET - Whitwell averages 9.7 TCR (186% of the Home health agencies BLS benchmark).

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

HHCOET - Whitwell TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=17 · 2018=12.1 · BLS 5.2

Where HHCOET - Whitwell falls in its industry

3,635 Home health agencies establishments

Safer than 12% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #59 safest of 66 Home health agencies employers in Tennessee.

HHCOET - Whitwell (17 employees, TCR 9.7) 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 HHCOET - Whitwell
HHCOET - Whitwell (17 employees, TCR 9.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 4.4

HHCOET - Whitwell has fewer employees than the Home health 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
2018 12.1 12.1 1 0 0
2017 17.0 8.5 2 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

621610 · TN · Whitwell

3,635 Home health agencies employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Volunteer Home Care 9.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR VNSS 9.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR RUT 9.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ashland Community Hospice 9.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE JJ TN Warehouse 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE 377 RIVERSIDE DR FRANKLIN TN 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE Champion Window Company of Memphis, LLC 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE VENTURE CONSTRUCTION COMPANY - MEMPHIS 17 FTE
CITY-NEAR Save A Lot #146 22 FTE
NAT-TCR Denny's Store #351 9.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Joliet I-55 Hampton Inn 9.7 TCR
NAT-TCR MONOC 9.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Iowa Correctional Institution for Women 9.7 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: 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.