Skilled nursing facilities · Tennessee

Life Care Center of Copper Basin

Ducktown, TN · ~104 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
2.8
Avg TCR
6.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Life Care Center of Copper Basin runs at 43% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Skilled nursing facilities workplace, earning a grade A.

Life Care Center of Copper Basin: 2.8 TCR = 43% of Skilled nursing facilities BLS 6.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Life Care Center of Copper Basin safety composite

Life Care Center of Copper Basin scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

74/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% of industry peers

DART rate
B 1.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% 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

−3.5

2016→2018

Life Care Center of Copper Basin injury rate improved

Life Care Center of Copper Basin's TCR fell 3.5 from 4.7 in 2016 to 1.1 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2016 at 4.7 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.41× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=4.7 · 2017=2.6 · 2018=1.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade A · TCR 2.8 · 43% of ind

  • DART 1.1 DART
  • RANK #45/278
  • PHOTO Lagniappe Healthcare…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~104 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Lagniappe Healthcare, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Life Care Center of Copper Basin in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Life Care Center of Copper Basin averages 2.8 TCR (43% 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 Copper Basin TCR series: 2016=4.7 · 2017=2.6 · 2018=1.1 · BLS 6.5

Where Life Care Center of Copper Basin falls in its industry

15,252 Skilled nursing facilities establishments

Safer than 86% 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 #45 safest of 278 Skilled nursing facilities employers in Tennessee.

Life Care Center of Copper Basin (104 employees, TCR 2.8) 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 Copper Basin
Life Care Center of Copper Basin (104 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 106 employees and a TCR of 6.6

Life Care Center of Copper Basin has fewer 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 1.1 1.1 1 0 0
2017 2.6 2.6 2 0 0
2016 4.7 4.7 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

623110 · TN · Ducktown

15,252 Skilled nursing facilities employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 3 employers in Ducktown, 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 Lagniappe Healthcare, LLC 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bethel Lutheran Nursing and Rehabilitation Center 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Frankfort Community Care Home 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR PLANTATION MANAGEMENT COMPANY, LLC dbaVALLEY VIEW HEALTH CARE 2.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE CableSouth Construction, LLC 104 FTE
STATE-SIZE FRANKLIN RD - CNR136 104 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wright Industrial Group, LLC 104 FTE
STATE-SIZE Richardson International 104 FTE
CITY-NEAR Polk County Operations 26 FTE
CITY-NEAR AMES RUBBER MANUFACTURING COMPANY, INC. TRI-STATE DIVISION 22 FTE
NAT-TCR JD Contractors, LLC 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR CS Wholesale Grocers : Bethlehem IV, PA (GDC) 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Letica Freightlines 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Chicago II 2.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Cornerstone Nursing & Rehabilitation 104 FTE
NAT-SIZE First Transit Sacramento 104 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tronox LLC Henderson Facility 104 FTE
NAT-SIZE Associated Milk Producers Inc (Sanborn) 104 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.