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
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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).

F

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

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).

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

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 establishments

Safer than 4% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

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 (144 employees, TCR 14.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Volunteer Home Care of Middle Tennessee dba Quality First Home Care
Volunteer Home Care of Middle Tennessee dba Quality First Home Care (144 employees, TCR 14.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 4.4

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 →

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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.