Home health agencies · Tennessee
Volunteer Home Care of Middle Tennessee dba Quality First Home Care
Columbia, TN · ~144 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.
- F
- Failing Safety Record
- 14.2
- Avg TCR
- 5.2
- Industry avg
- 0
- Fatalities
The verdict
Volunteer Home Care of Middle Tennessee dba Quality First Home Care runs at 274% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Home health agencies workplace, earning a grade F.
Volunteer Home Care of Middle Tennessee dba Quality First Home Care: 14.2 TCR = 274% of Home health agencies BLS 5.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)
Volunteer Home Care of Middle Tennessee dba Quality First Home Care safety composite
Volunteer Home Care of Middle Tennessee dba Quality First Home Care scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 4%), 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).
17/100
Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures
- Total Case Rate (TCR)
- F 14.23 per 100 workers
Safer than 4% of industry peers
- DART rate
- F 10.39 per 100 workers
Safer than 7% 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 Home Care of Middle Tennessee dba Quality First Home Care: 10.0 → 18.5 TCR
Peak year 2024 @ 18.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.73× in 2024
Volunteer Home Care of Middle Tennessee dba Quality First Home Care's TCR rose 8.5 from 10.0 in 2023 to 18.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.73× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).
OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard
Establishment book 621610 · Columbia, TN ABOVE-IND · MID
Grade F · TCR 14.2 · 274% of ind
- DART 10.4 DART
- RANK #62/66
- PHOTO Allina Health Homeca…
- BOOK 2y book
- INJ 22 inj
- SIZE ~144 FTE
Nearest TCR peer: Allina Health Homecare and Hospice-Owatonna (0.0 TCR gap)
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Volunteer Home Care of Middle Tennessee dba Quality First Home Care in the TCR neighbourhood
Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers
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Volunteer Home Care of Middle Tennessee dba Quality First Home Care
14.2 TCR
- Allina Health
Allina Health Homecare and Hospice-Owatonna
14.2 TCR
- Seniors at Hom
Seniors at Home, Inc.
14.2 TCR
- Chadds Ford Ho
Chadds Ford Hospice
14.2 TCR
- Ascension At H
Ascension At Home Warren
14.2 TCR
What this shows Volunteer Home Care of Middle Tennessee dba Quality First Home Care averages 14.2 TCR (274% of the Home health agencies BLS benchmark).
Volunteer Home Care of Middle Tennessee dba Quality First Home Care TCR series: 2023=10 · 2024=18.5 · BLS 5.2
Where Volunteer Home Care of Middle Tennessee dba Quality First Home Care falls in its industry
3,635 Home health agencies establishmentsSafer than 4% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.
Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #62 safest of 66 Home health agencies employers in Tennessee.
Volunteer Home Care of Middle Tennessee dba Quality First Home Care has more employees than the Home health agencies median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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 | 18.5 | 10.4 | 12 | 4 | 0 |
| 2023 | 10.0 | 5.0 | 10 | 0 | 0 |
OSHA ITA peer cross-reference
Establishment peer ledger
621610 · TN · Columbia
3,635 Home health agencies employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 79 employers in Columbia, 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 | Allina Health Homecare and Hospice-Owatonna | 14.2 TCR |
| NAICS-TCR | Seniors at Home, Inc. | 14.2 TCR |
| NAICS-TCR | Chadds Ford Hospice | 14.2 TCR |
| NAICS-TCR | Ascension At Home Warren | 14.2 TCR |
| STATE-SIZE | Tennessee | 144 FTE |
| STATE-SIZE | UST, Inc Landmark Ceramics | 144 FTE |
| STATE-SIZE | Tri-City Extrusion | 144 FTE |
| STATE-SIZE | Morrison Industries | 144 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | Maury Regional Medical Center | 2,287 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | Maury County Government | 524 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | Columbia State Community College | 506 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | WM 192 | 399 FTE |
| NAT-TCR | Symx Logistics | 14.2 TCR |
| NAT-TCR | Transportation | 14.2 TCR |
| NAT-TCR | Cleveland Browns | 14.2 TCR |
| NAT-TCR | Homeplace of New Bern | 14.2 TCR |
| NAT-SIZE | 149 Arsenal | 144 FTE |
| NAT-SIZE | Wesley Palms | 144 FTE |
| NAT-SIZE | Epitome Networks | 144 FTE |
| NAT-SIZE | Real Alloy Specification, LLC - Wabash, IN | 144 FTE |
Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →
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