Skilled nursing facilities · Tennessee

Life Care Center of Columbia

Columbia, TN · ~138 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
6.1
Avg TCR
6.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Life Care Center of Columbia runs at 93% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Skilled nursing facilities workplace, earning a grade C.

Life Care Center of Columbia: 6.1 TCR = 93% of Skilled nursing facilities BLS 6.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Life Care Center of Columbia safety composite

Life Care Center of Columbia scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 55% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 25%), 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

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 6.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% 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

Life Care Center of Columbia: 5.5 → 7.9 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 7.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.18× in 2018

Life Care Center of Columbia's TCR rose 2.4 from 5.5 in 2016 to 7.9 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 1.18× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade C · TCR 6.1 · 93% of ind

  • DART 7.1 DART
  • RANK #145/278
  • PHOTO The Neighborhoods of…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 23 inj
  • SIZE ~138 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: The Neighborhoods of White Lake-THSC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Life Care Center of Columbia in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Life Care Center of Columbia averages 6.1 TCR (93% 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 Columbia TCR series: 2016=5.5 · 2017=4.8 · 2018=7.9 · BLS 6.5

Where Life Care Center of Columbia falls in its industry

15,252 Skilled nursing facilities establishments

Safer than 55% 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 #145 safest of 278 Skilled nursing facilities employers in Tennessee.

Life Care Center of Columbia (138 employees, TCR 6.1) 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 Columbia
Life Care Center of Columbia (138 employees, TCR 6.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 106 employees and a TCR of 6.6

Life Care Center of Columbia 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 7.9 7.1 10 0 0
2017 4.8 3.2 6 0 0
2016 5.5 5.5 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

623110 · TN · Columbia

15,252 Skilled nursing facilities employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 79 employers in Columbia, 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 The Neighborhoods of White Lake-THSC 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Waters of Covington, LLC 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR ENGLEWOOD POST ACUTE AND REHAB 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Faith Memorial Nursing Home 6.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE U.S. Display Group TN 138 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gordonsville TN 138 FTE
STATE-SIZE Evonik Corporation 138 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kauffman Engineering, Inc. CMB 138 FTE
CITY-NEAR Maury Regional Medical Center 2,287 FTE
CITY-NEAR Maury County Government 524 FTE
CITY-NEAR Columbia State Community College 506 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 192 399 FTE
NAT-TCR Belvedere Commons Tampa 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR SUPA Doors 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Wixom MI 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Finance Department 6.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE CTS - 440 Chase River 138 FTE
NAT-SIZE Trinity Elms H&R 138 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ponchatoula Nursing Home, LLC d/b/a Belle Maison Nursing Home 138 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bencor 138 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.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.