Health insurance carriers, direct · Tennessee

Nashville - BCBST

Name: Nashville - BCBST Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Nashville, TN · ~146 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

D
Poor Safety Record: 0.7
Avg TCR: 0.5
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Nashville - BCBST runs at 146% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Health insurance carriers, direct workplace, earning a grade D.

Nashville - BCBST: 0.7 TCR = 146% of Health insurance carriers, direct BLS 0.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Nashville - BCBST safety composite

Nashville - BCBST scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 69% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 37%), 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).

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): D 0.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% of industry peers
DART rate: C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 69% 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

−3.0

2016→2021

Nashville - BCBST injury rate improved

Nashville - BCBST's TCR fell 3.0 from 3.0 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2016 at 3.0 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=3.0 · 2017=0.0 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=1.4 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 524114 · Nashville, TN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 0.7 · 146% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #8/11
PHOTO Hawaii Dental Servic…
BOOK 6y book
INJ 5 inj
SIZE ~146 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hawaii Dental Service (HDS) (0.0 TCR gap)

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Central Califo

0.8
This site

0.7
Hawaii Dental

0.7
Gateway - BCBS

0.7
Scotts Valley

0.7

What this shows Nashville - BCBST averages 0.7 TCR (146% of the Health insurance carriers, direct BLS benchmark).

Nashville - BCBST TCR series: 2016=3 · 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=1.4 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · BLS 0.5

Where Nashville - BCBST falls in its industry

162 Health insurance carriers, dir establishments

Safer than 37% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 0.5.

Grade D

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 11 Health insurance carriers, dir employers in Tennessee.

Nashville - BCBST (146 employees, TCR 0.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 360 employees and a TCR of 0.5

Nashville - BCBST has fewer employees than the Health insurance carriers, direct median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 0.5. 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
2021	0.0	0.0	0	0
2020	0.0	0.0	0	0
2019	1.4	0.0	1	1
2018	0.0	0.0	0	0
2017	0.0	0.0	0	0
2016	3.0	1.5	4	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

524114 · TN · Nashville

162 Health insurance carriers, direct employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 1,187 employers in Nashville, 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	Hawaii Dental Service (HDS)	HONOLULU, HI	0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Gateway - BCBST	CHATTANOOGA, TN	0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Scotts Valley	SCOTTS VALLEY, CA	0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Central California Alliance for Health Scotts Valley	SCOTTS VALLEY, CA	0.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Middle Tennessee Natural Gas Utility District	SMITHVILLE	146 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Johnson & Galyon, Inc.	KNOXVILLE	146 FTE
STATE-SIZE	HC CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION GROUP	NASHVILLE	146 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Tele-Optics Communication Inc.	KINGSPORT	146 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Parallon Enterprises, LLC	Nashville	15,267 FTE
CITY-NEAR	METROPOLITAN GOVT. OF NASHVILLE,& DAVIDSON COUNTY	Nashville	10,278 FTE
CITY-NEAR	METRO NASHVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOLS	Nashville	9,049 FTE
CITY-NEAR	TriStar Centennial Medical Center	Nashville	3,106 FTE
NAT-TCR	Pacifica Hotels Corporate Office	Aliso Viejo, CA	0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Caro - MI	Caro, MI	0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Berry Global Inc	Mcalester, OK	0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Sinclair Trucking Company - Denver	Denver, CO	0.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Broken Arrow - BlackHawk Industrial	Broken Arrow, OK	146 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Glassmere Fuel Service/Smith Propane/Shortway - Curtisville	Curtisville, PA	146 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Altoona Center for Nursing Care	Altoona, PA	146 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Metrex Research, LLC	Romulus, MI	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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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