Skilled nursing facilities · Tennessee

Life Care Center of Banner Elk

Banner Elk, TN · ~115 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
4.9
Avg TCR
6.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Life Care Center of Banner Elk runs at 75% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Skilled nursing facilities workplace, earning a grade B.

Life Care Center of Banner Elk: 4.9 TCR = 75% of Skilled nursing facilities BLS 6.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Life Care Center of Banner Elk safety composite

Life Care Center of Banner Elk scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 66% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 49%), 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).

C

56/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 66% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.0

2016→2018

Life Care Center of Banner Elk injury rate improved

Life Care Center of Banner Elk's TCR fell 1.0 from 4.5 in 2016 to 3.5 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 6.6 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.72× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=4.5 · 2017=6.6 · 2018=3.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 623110 · Banner Elk, TN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 4.9 · 75% of ind

  • DART 3.5 DART
  • RANK #103/278
  • PHOTO Imperial Manor
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~115 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Imperial Manor (0.0 TCR gap)

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Life Care Center of Banner Elk in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Life Care Center of Banner Elk averages 4.9 TCR (75% of the Skilled nursing facilities BLS benchmark).

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

Life Care Center of Banner Elk TCR series: 2016=4.5 · 2017=6.6 · 2018=3.5 · BLS 6.5

Where Life Care Center of Banner Elk falls in its industry

15,252 Skilled nursing facilities establishments

Safer than 66% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #103 safest of 278 Skilled nursing facilities employers in Tennessee.

Life Care Center of Banner Elk (115 employees, TCR 4.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 106 employees and a TCR of 6.6 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Life Care Center of Banner Elk
Life Care Center of Banner Elk (115 employees, TCR 4.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 106 employees and a TCR of 6.6

Life Care Center of Banner Elk has more employees than the Skilled nursing facilities median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.6. 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 3.5 3.5 3 0 0
2017 6.6 6.6 5 0 0
2016 4.5 4.5 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

623110 · TN · Banner Elk

15,252 Skilled nursing facilities employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 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 Imperial Manor 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Heritage Hall Front Royal 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tim Chesney Miami Covington 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Edgewood Manor of Lucasville II 4.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Fayetteville Public Utilities 115 FTE
STATE-SIZE Electric Division 115 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nashville Branch 115 FTE
STATE-SIZE Manganaro TN LLC 115 FTE
NAT-TCR HSD Truckload 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Holiday Inn Orlando- Disney Springs Area 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Charlottesville-Pupil Tran 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Heartland Health Care Center - Ft. Myers 4.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Phoenix Cotton Center III 115 FTE
NAT-SIZE Howell Munitions & Technology, Inc. 115 FTE
NAT-SIZE LP Live Oak, LLC 115 FTE
NAT-SIZE Franklin Oaks Nursing & Rehab 115 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: 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.