Nursing homes · Mississippi

Azalea Gardens Nursing Center

Wiggins, MS · ~92 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
8.2
Avg TCR
6.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Azalea Gardens Nursing Center runs at 127% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Nursing homes workplace, earning a grade D.

Azalea Gardens Nursing Center: 8.2 TCR = 127% of Nursing homes BLS 6.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Azalea Gardens Nursing Center safety composite

Azalea Gardens Nursing Center scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 8.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% of industry peers

DART rate
F 13.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Azalea Gardens Nursing Center: 2.0 → 13.1 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 16.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.59× in 2024

Azalea Gardens Nursing Center's TCR rose 11.0 from 2.0 in 2018 to 13.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 16.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.59× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 623110 · Wiggins, MS ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 8.2 · 127% of ind

  • DART 13.1 DART
  • RANK #177/237
  • PHOTO Cheltenham Nursing a…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~92 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cheltenham Nursing and Rehab (0.0 TCR gap)

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Azalea Gardens Nursing Center in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Azalea Gardens Nursing Center averages 8.2 TCR (127% of the Nursing homes BLS benchmark).

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

Azalea Gardens Nursing Center TCR series: 2018=2 · 2020=1.8 · 2023=16 · 2024=13.1 · BLS 6.5

Where Azalea Gardens Nursing Center falls in its industry

15,252 Nursing homes establishments

Safer than 37% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Mississippi alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #177 safest of 237 Nursing homes employers in Mississippi.

Azalea Gardens Nursing Center (92 employees, TCR 8.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 106 employees and a TCR of 6.6 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Azalea Gardens Nursing Center
Azalea Gardens Nursing Center (92 employees, TCR 8.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 106 employees and a TCR of 6.6

Azalea Gardens Nursing Center has fewer employees than the Nursing homes median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.6. 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 13.1 13.1 1 10 0
2023 16.0 16.0 0 14 0
2020 1.8 1.8 2 0 0
2018 2.0 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

623110 · MS · Wiggins

15,252 Nursing homes employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 4,083 rated employers in Mississippi with headcount on file · 15 employers in Wiggins, MS · 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 Cheltenham Nursing and Rehab 8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Minnesota Department of Veterans Affairs 8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Warsaw Meadows Care center 8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nova Health and Rehab 8.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Fabricators Supply LLC 92 FTE
STATE-SIZE A.L.P. Olive Branch 92 FTE
STATE-SIZE Viking Range LLC - Refrigeration 92 FTE
STATE-SIZE Albany Industries - Pontotoc 92 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hood Industries Inc. Wiggins 276 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3528 271 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 3528 250 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wiggins 226 FTE
NAT-TCR City of Eldorado Fire Department 8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Allox - Loxley 8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Cogle - Glenwood Springs 8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Gaaug - Augusta 8.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Department of Information Technology 92 FTE
NAT-SIZE EB Meadow Woods 92 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fall River 92 FTE
NAT-SIZE Excel Mechanical, Inc. 92 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, 2020, 2018. 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.