Mental Health · Tennessee

Volunteer Behavioral Health Care Services-Chattanooga/ Johnson

Chattanooga, TN · ~130 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.8
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Volunteer Behavioral Health Care Services-Chattanooga/ Johnson runs at 178% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Mental Health workplace, earning a grade D.

Volunteer Behavioral Health Care Services-Chattanooga/ Johnson: 6.8 TCR = 178% of Mental Health BLS 3.8 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Volunteer Behavioral Health Care Services-Chattanooga/ Johnson safety composite

Volunteer Behavioral Health Care Services-Chattanooga/ Johnson scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 73% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 17%), 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 6.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% 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

Volunteer Behavioral Health Care Services-Chattanooga/ Johnson: 3.6 → 4.3 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 14.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2020

Volunteer Behavioral Health Care Services-Chattanooga/ Johnson's TCR rose 0.7 from 3.6 in 2016 to 4.3 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 14.0 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 621420 · Chattanooga, TN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.8 · 178% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #29/35
  • PHOTO Manzanita Salinas
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~130 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Manzanita Salinas (0.0 TCR gap)

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Volunteer Behavioral Health Care Services-Chattanooga/ Johnson in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Volunteer Behavioral Health Care Services-Chattanooga/ Johnson averages 6.8 TCR (178% of the Mental Health BLS benchmark).

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

Volunteer Behavioral Health Care Services-Chattanooga/ Johnson TCR series: 2016=3.6 · 2018=5.1 · 2019=14 · 2020=4.3 · BLS 3.8

Where Volunteer Behavioral Health Care Services-Chattanooga/ Johnson falls in its industry

611 Mental Health establishments

Safer than 17% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #29 safest of 35 Mental Health employers in Tennessee.

Volunteer Behavioral Health Care Services-Chattanooga/ Johnson (130 employees, TCR 6.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.1 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 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Volunteer Behavioral Health Care Services-Chattanooga/ Johnson
Volunteer Behavioral Health Care Services-Chattanooga/ Johnson (130 employees, TCR 6.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.1

Volunteer Behavioral Health Care Services-Chattanooga/ Johnson has more employees than the Mental Health median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.1. 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
2020 4.3 0.0 2 0 0
2019 14.0 0.0 4 1 0
2018 5.1 0.0 2 0 0
2016 3.6 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

621420 · TN · Chattanooga

611 Mental Health employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 695 employers in Chattanooga, 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 Manzanita Salinas 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR MeBe San Diego 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR KYCOVI-ZP0-NKY COVINGTON 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Norwalk Office 6.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Railroad Consultants, PLLC 130 FTE
STATE-SIZE DSE ERECTORS 130 FTE
STATE-SIZE Interstate AC Service LLC 130 FTE
STATE-SIZE MDS Foods Inc Tennessee 130 FTE
CITY-NEAR CHATTANOOGA COKE 8,650 FTE
CITY-NEAR CHATTANOOGA FOOD 8,650 FTE
CITY-NEAR USXpress 7,385 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cardiology GB 6,606 FTE
NAT-TCR Saint Paul Regional Water Services 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Ace Hardware Retail Support Center (Rocklin) 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Durand Agronomy 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR brandywine living at brandall estates 6.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE City of Waverly 130 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stiles Construction 130 FTE
NAT-SIZE Textron Aviation - CSC San Antonio 130 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mifflin Center 130 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: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.