Hospice care services, in home · Kentucky

Mercy Health Homecare And Hospice

Name: Mercy Health Homecare And Hospice Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Paducah, KY · ~146 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

D
Poor Safety Record: 8.3
Avg TCR: 5.2
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Mercy Health Homecare And Hospice runs at 159% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Hospice care services, in home workplace, earning a grade D.

Mercy Health Homecare And Hospice: 8.3 TCR = 159% of Hospice care services, in home BLS 5.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Mercy Health Homecare And Hospice safety composite

Mercy Health Homecare And Hospice scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 11%), 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).

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 8.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers
DART rate: F 8.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% 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

Mercy Health Homecare And Hospice: 3.5 → 13.1 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 13.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.02× in 2019

Mercy Health Homecare And Hospice's TCR rose 9.6 from 3.5 in 2018 to 13.1 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 1.02× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 621610 · Paducah, KY ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 8.3 · 159% of ind

DART 8.4 DART
RANK #32/43
PHOTO Associated Home Care…
BOOK 2y book
INJ 20 inj
SIZE ~146 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Associated Home Care Location 2 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Associated Hom

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8.3
Amity Homecare

8.3
Jackson Hospic

8.3

What this shows Mercy Health Homecare And Hospice averages 8.3 TCR (159% of the Hospice care services, in home BLS benchmark).

Mercy Health Homecare And Hospice TCR series: 2018=3.5 · 2019=13.1 · BLS 5.2

Where Mercy Health Homecare And Hospice falls in its industry

3,635 Hospice care services, in home establishments

Safer than 18% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

Grade D

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #32 safest of 43 Hospice care services, in home employers in Kentucky.

Mercy Health Homecare And Hospice (146 employees, TCR 8.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Mercy Health Homecare And Hospice has more employees than the Hospice care services, in home 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
2019	13.1	8.4	17	0	0
2018	3.5	3.5	3	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

621610 · KY · Paducah

3,635 Hospice care services, in home employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 198 employers in Paducah, KY · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Associated Home Care Location 2	BURLINGTON, MA	8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	PHS - PHS Assisted Living	ROSEVILLE, MN	8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Amity Homecare	CIRCLEVILLE, OH	8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Jackson Hospice	JACKSON, GA	8.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Florence	FLORENCE	146 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Godolphin, LLC	LEXINGTON	146 FTE
STATE-SIZE	3A Composites USA - Glasgow	GLASGOW	146 FTE
STATE-SIZE	CS - Holley Inc.	BOWLING GREEN	146 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Ingram barge Company	Paducah	2,071 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Baptist Health Paducah Hospital	Paducah	1,605 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Baptist Health Paducah	Paducah	1,459 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Baptist Heatlh Paducah	Paducah	1,398 FTE
NAT-TCR	Austin	Decatur, AL	8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Oakbrook Health and Rehabilitation Center	Labelle, FL	8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Northern Gear and Machining	Muskego, WI	8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Matson Lumber Co.	Brookville, PA	8.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Cape Heritage MA SNF LLC	Sandwich, MA	146 FTE
NAT-SIZE	UniSource Energy Services (Electric)	Kingman, AZ	146 FTE
NAT-SIZE	JM Foods, Inc.	Miami, OK	146 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Knouse Foods Coop, Inc - Gardners	Gardners, PA	146 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: 2019, 2018. 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.