Skilled nursing facilities · Tennessee

NHC Fort Sanders

Knoxville, TN · ~184 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.3
Avg TCR
6.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

NHC Fort Sanders runs at 19% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Skilled nursing facilities workplace, earning a grade A.

NHC Fort Sanders: 1.3 TCR = 19% of Skilled nursing facilities BLS 6.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

NHC Fort Sanders safety composite

NHC Fort Sanders scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 96% 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).

B

79/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 96% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% 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

NHC Fort Sanders: 0.0 → 1.5 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 2.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.59× in 2024

NHC Fort Sanders's TCR rose 1.5 from 0.0 in 2021 to 1.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 2.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.59× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade A · TCR 1.3 · 19% of ind

  • DART 0.7 DART
  • RANK #14/278
  • PHOTO Winkler Court
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~184 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Winkler Court (0.0 TCR gap)

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NHC Fort Sanders in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows NHC Fort Sanders averages 1.3 TCR (19% of the Skilled nursing facilities BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

NHC Fort Sanders TCR series: 2021=0 · 2022=1.4 · 2023=2.1 · 2024=1.5 · BLS 6.5

Where NHC Fort Sanders falls in its industry

15,252 Skilled nursing facilities establishments

Safer than 96% 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 #14 safest of 278 Skilled nursing facilities employers in Tennessee.

NHC Fort Sanders (184 employees, TCR 1.3) 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 NHC Fort Sanders
NHC Fort Sanders (184 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 106 employees and a TCR of 6.6

NHC Fort Sanders 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
2024 1.5 0.7 2 0 0
2023 2.1 0.7 3 0 0
2022 1.4 0.7 2 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

623110 · TN · Knoxville

15,252 Skilled nursing facilities employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 747 employers in Knoxville, 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 Winkler Court 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Heartland Care Center 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Stellar Care Center 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Emeralds at Faribault 1.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Jones Bros., Inc. 184 FTE
STATE-SIZE Beretta - Manufacturing 184 FTE
STATE-SIZE Talos Engineered Products 184 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tachi-S Automotive Seating USA, LLC 184 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cellular Sales Services Group LLC 6,387 FTE
CITY-NEAR University Health System, Inc 5,215 FTE
CITY-NEAR Functional Pathways of TN LLC 2,258 FTE
CITY-NEAR HES Facilities Services K-12 2,157 FTE
NAT-TCR Branch 3263 - WP Charlotte 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR D.R. Horton, Inc. - Charleston 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Xenia - Frozen Food Express Industries, Inc. / FFE Transportation 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Winkler Court 1.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Maple Springs Management - North Logan 184 FTE
NAT-SIZE Maumee Assembly & Stamping 184 FTE
NAT-SIZE Republic Services of Northeast Houston 184 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cintas Loc 101 184 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021. 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.