Medical laboratories (except radiological, X-ray) · Tennessee

Poplar Healthcare

Memphis, TN · ~325 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.3
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Poplar Healthcare runs at 271% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Medical laboratories (except radiological, X-ray) workplace, earning a grade F.

Poplar Healthcare: 10.3 TCR = 271% of Medical laboratories (except radiological, X-ray) BLS 3.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Poplar Healthcare safety composite

Poplar Healthcare scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 78% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 13%), 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).

D

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% 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

−17.9

2016→2017

Poplar Healthcare injury rate improved

Poplar Healthcare's TCR fell 17.9 from 19.2 in 2016 to 1.4 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 19.2 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=19.2 · 2017=1.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 621511 · Memphis, TN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 10.3 · 271% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #9/9
  • PHOTO Riverside Medical Gr…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~325 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Riverside Medical Group Consolidated Laboratory (0.4 TCR gap)

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Poplar Healthcare in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Poplar Healthcare averages 10.3 TCR (271% of the Medical laboratories (except radiological, X-ray) BLS benchmark).

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

Poplar Healthcare TCR series: 2016=19.2 · 2017=1.4 · BLS 3.8

Where Poplar Healthcare falls in its industry

162 Medical laboratories (except r establishments

Safer than 13% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 9 Medical laboratories (except r employers in Tennessee.

Poplar Healthcare (325 employees, TCR 10.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 154 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Poplar Healthcare
Poplar Healthcare (325 employees, TCR 10.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 154 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Poplar Healthcare has more employees than the Medical laboratories (except radiologica median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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
2017 1.4 0.0 5 0 0
2016 19.2 0.0 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

621511 · TN · Memphis

162 Medical laboratories (except radiological, X-ray) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 1,330 employers in Memphis, 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 Riverside Medical Group Consolidated Laboratory 10.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR PathGroup 658 Grassmere 9.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Diagnostic Laboratories and Radiology Denver 9.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pacific Diagnostics Laboratories 11.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Watts Bar Nuclear Plant Maintenance 325 FTE
STATE-SIZE 6th and Peabody 325 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tenneco (formerly Federal Mogul) 325 FTE
STATE-SIZE MANN+HUMMEL Plant 3 Dunlap,TN 325 FTE
CITY-NEAR FedEx 2903 SPRANKLE DR 12,398 FTE
CITY-NEAR 381940311 9,861 FTE
CITY-NEAR American Residential Services 5,775 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Jude Children's Research Hospital 5,599 FTE
NAT-TCR Port Townsend (Wadis) 10.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Vernal Mdc Facility (Utvrn) 10.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Holland - BI 10.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Holland - RA 10.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Doctors Medical Center, Inc. 325 FTE
NAT-SIZE RCX Nebraska 325 FTE
NAT-SIZE Horsham Pa Office 325 FTE
NAT-SIZE #630 Wall Shoprite 325 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: 2017, 2016. 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.