Skilled nursing facilities · Pennsylvania

Bala Nursing Center

Phila, PA · ~268 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
9.8
Avg TCR
6.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bala Nursing Center runs at 151% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Skilled nursing facilities workplace, earning a grade D.

Bala Nursing Center: 9.8 TCR = 151% of Skilled nursing facilities BLS 6.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bala Nursing Center safety composite

Bala Nursing Center scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 65% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 28%), 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

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% 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%).

TCR Δ

−10.9

2017→2023

Bala Nursing Center injury rate improved

Bala Nursing Center's TCR fell 10.9 from 15.3 in 2017 to 4.4 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2017 at 15.3 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.22× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=15.3 · 2023=4.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 623110 · Phila, PA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 9.8 · 151% of ind

  • DART 2.2 DART
  • RANK #532/754
  • PHOTO Vicksburg Convalesce…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 26 inj
  • SIZE ~268 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Vicksburg Convalescent Home (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bala Nursing Center in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bala Nursing Center averages 9.8 TCR (151% of the Skilled nursing facilities BLS benchmark).

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

Bala Nursing Center TCR series: 2017=15.3 · 2023=4.4 · BLS 6.5

Where Bala Nursing Center falls in its industry

15,252 Skilled nursing facilities establishments

Safer than 28% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #532 safest of 754 Skilled nursing facilities employers in Pennsylvania.

Bala Nursing Center (268 employees, TCR 9.8) 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 Bala Nursing Center
Bala Nursing Center (268 employees, TCR 9.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 106 employees and a TCR of 6.6

Bala Nursing Center has more employees than the Skilled nursing facilities 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
2023 4.4 2.2 6 0 0
2017 15.3 9.9 20 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

623110 · PA · Phila

15,252 Skilled nursing facilities employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 8 employers in Phila, PA · 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 Vicksburg Convalescent Home 9.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Miller's Merry Manor 9.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Exeter Center 9.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hidden Valley Center 9.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Range Resources - Appalachia, LLC 268 FTE
STATE-SIZE UGI Utilities Reading 268 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hempt Bros., Inc 268 FTE
STATE-SIZE Penn Engineering & Manufacturing Corp. 268 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gift of Life Donor Program 294 FTE
CITY-NEAR Newman & Company 241 FTE
CITY-NEAR United State Recycling, Inc. 67 FTE
CITY-NEAR Jenkintown Building Services 55 FTE
NAT-TCR 55584 Spokane 9.8 TCR
NAT-TCR North 40 Outfitters #1 9.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Msy Louis Armstrong New Orleans Int 9.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Jack in the Box #3483 9.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Gulf Marine Repair 268 FTE
NAT-SIZE County Of Ventura - General Services Agency 268 FTE
NAT-SIZE Casai - the Ups Store Inc 268 FTE
NAT-SIZE Delta Sheet Metal 268 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: 2023, 2017. 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.