Intellectual and developmental disability homes · Tennessee

Waves, Inc.

Franklin, TN · ~84 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
13.8
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Waves, Inc. runs at 364% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Intellectual and developmental disability homes workplace, earning a grade F.

Waves, Inc.: 13.8 TCR = 364% of Intellectual and developmental disability homes BLS 3.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Waves, Inc. safety composite

Waves, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 12%), 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

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 13.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% 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%).

TCR Δ

−5.9

2016→2017

Waves, Inc. injury rate improved

Waves, Inc.'s TCR fell 5.9 from 16.8 in 2016 to 10.9 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 16.8 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0.49× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=16.8 · 2017=10.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 623210 · Franklin, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 13.8 · 364% of ind

  • DART 6.8 DART
  • RANK #38/38
  • PHOTO Mary's Town
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~84 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Mary's Town (0.0 TCR gap)

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Waves, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Waves, Inc. averages 13.8 TCR (364% of the Intellectual and developmental disability homes BLS benchmark).

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

Waves, Inc. TCR series: 2016=16.8 · 2017=10.9 · BLS 3.8

Where Waves, Inc. falls in its industry

2,261 Intellectual and developmental establishments

Safer than 12% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #38 safest of 38 Intellectual and developmental employers in Tennessee.

Waves, Inc. (84 employees, TCR 13.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 5.8 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 0200400600 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Waves, Inc.
Waves, Inc. (84 employees, TCR 13.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 5.8

Waves, Inc. has more employees than the Intellectual and developmental disabilit median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.8. 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 10.9 6.8 8 0 0
2016 16.8 9.0 13 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

623210 · TN · Franklin

2,261 Intellectual and developmental disability homes employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 181 employers in Franklin, 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 Mary's Town 13.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dorchester Cluster 13.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lewis & Clark Group Home 13.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Forest Park 13.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Woodstream Corporation Knoxville 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lennar Nashville 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE Water Division 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE M3 Technology Group, Inc. 84 FTE
CITY-NEAR Williamson County Board of Education - Williamson County Schools 6,320 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nissan Americas Headquarters - Franklin 2,007 FTE
CITY-NEAR Williamson County Government 1,948 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lee Company 1,716 FTE
NAT-TCR South San Diego (Cacva) 13.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Spee-Dee Delivery Service, Inc. - Aurora 13.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Sign Shop 13.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Bluegrass 13.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE SCG Mechanical 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE North Walk Villa 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE Prostar, Inc 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Nichols Center 84 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.