Ambulatory surgical centers and clinics, freestanding · Tennessee

Mountain Empire Surgery Center

Name: Mountain Empire Surgery Center Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Johnson City, TN · ~53 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

C
Average Safety Record: 3.6
Avg TCR: 3.8
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Mountain Empire Surgery Center runs at 94% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Ambulatory surgical centers and clinics, freestanding workplace, earning a grade C.

Mountain Empire Surgery Center: 3.6 TCR = 94% of Ambulatory surgical centers and clinics, freestanding BLS 3.8 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Mountain Empire Surgery Center safety composite

Mountain Empire Surgery Center scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 73% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 23%), 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).

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Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 3.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% of industry peers
DART rate: F 3.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% 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

Mountain Empire Surgery Center: 5.7 → 6.8 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 6.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.96× in 2023

Mountain Empire Surgery Center's TCR rose 1.1 from 5.7 in 2019 to 6.8 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0.96× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 621493 · Johnson City, TN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.6 · 94% of ind

DART 3.4 DART
RANK #4/10
PHOTO Advanced Ambulatory …
BOOK 5y book
INJ 6 inj
SIZE ~53 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Advanced Ambulatory Surgery Center, LP (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Mountain Empire Surgery Center averages 3.6 TCR (94% of the Ambulatory surgical centers and clinics, freestanding BLS benchmark).

Mountain Empire Surgery Center TCR series: 2019=5.7 · 2020=2.8 · 2021=0 · 2022=2.5 · 2023=6.8 · BLS 3.8

Where Mountain Empire Surgery Center falls in its industry

498 Ambulatory surgical centers an establishments

Safer than 73% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.2.

Grade C

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 10 Ambulatory surgical centers an employers in Tennessee.

Mountain Empire Surgery Center (53 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 6.2

Mountain Empire Surgery Center has more employees than the Ambulatory surgical centers and clinics, median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.2. 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
2023	6.8	3.4	2
2022	2.5	0.0	1
2021	0.0	0.0	0
2020	2.8	0.0	1
2019	5.7	0.0	2

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

621493 · TN · Johnson City

498 Ambulatory surgical centers and clinics, freestanding employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 177 employers in Johnson City, TN · 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	Advanced Ambulatory Surgery Center, LP	REDLANDS, CA	3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Genesis Surgery Center	LANSING, MI	3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Surgicare of Aventura, LLC	AVENTURA, FL	3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Pend Oreille Surgery Center, llc	PONDERAY, ID	3.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Humboldt Utilities	HUMBOLDT	53 FTE
STATE-SIZE	SWEETWATER UTILITIES	SWEETWATER	53 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Savannah Office	SAVANNAH	53 FTE
STATE-SIZE	GCC Construction	CHATTANOOGA	53 FTE
CITY-NEAR	East Tennessee State University	Johnson City	4,802 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Johnson City Medical Center	Johnson City	2,099 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Ballad Health	Johnson City	1,586 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Mountain States Health Alliance	Johnson City	1,033 FTE
NAT-TCR	MJ Celco, Inc.	Schiller Park, IL	3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Colonnades Health Care Center Ltd. Co. d/b/a The Colonnades at Reflection Bay	Pearland, TX	3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	National Structures, Inc	Palm Bay, FL	3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Cape Abilities Inc.	Hyannis, MA	3.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Unit 725	Tampa, FL	53 FTE
NAT-SIZE	653 - Woodward Corner Market	Royal Oak, MI	53 FTE
NAT-SIZE	A. Merante Contracting	Pittsburgh, PA	53 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Vessel Technology	Longview, TX	53 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.