Nursing homes · Maryland

Ballenger Creek Center

Frederick, MD · ~126 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
15.8
Avg TCR
6.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ballenger Creek Center runs at 243% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Nursing homes workplace, earning a grade F.

Ballenger Creek Center: 15.8 TCR = 243% of Nursing homes BLS 6.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ballenger Creek Center safety composite

Ballenger Creek Center scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 1%), 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 15.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers

DART rate
F 38.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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

Ballenger Creek Center: 6.0 → 42.0 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 42.0 TCR · DART/TCR 2.45× in 2020

Ballenger Creek Center's TCR rose 36.0 from 6.0 in 2017 to 42.0 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 2.45× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 623110 · Frederick, MD ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 15.8 · 243% of ind

  • DART 38.7 DART
  • RANK #158/176
  • PHOTO OCNC, Inc. dba Silve…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 30 inj
  • SIZE ~126 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: OCNC, Inc. dba Silver Oaks Health and Rehabilitation (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ballenger Creek Center in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ballenger Creek Center averages 15.8 TCR (243% of the Nursing homes BLS benchmark).

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

Ballenger Creek Center TCR series: 2017=6 · 2018=4.7 · 2019=10.6 · 2020=42 · BLS 6.5

Where Ballenger Creek Center falls in its industry

15,252 Nursing homes establishments

Safer than 10% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Maryland alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #158 safest of 176 Nursing homes employers in Maryland.

Ballenger Creek Center (126 employees, TCR 15.8) 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 Ballenger Creek Center
Ballenger Creek Center (126 employees, TCR 15.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 106 employees and a TCR of 6.6

Ballenger Creek Center has more 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
2020 42.0 38.7 3 48 0
2019 10.6 8.1 13 0 0
2018 4.7 3.2 6 0 0
2017 6.0 3.7 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

623110 · MD · Frederick

15,252 Nursing homes employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,213 rated employers in Maryland with headcount on file · 267 employers in Frederick, MD · 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 OCNC, Inc. dba Silver Oaks Health and Rehabilitation 15.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Linda Vista Nursing & Rehabilitation 15.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Promontory Point Rehabilitation 15.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Villa Crest Nursing and Retirement Center 15.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Interstate Construction Development Company 126 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lighting Maintenance, Inc. 126 FTE
STATE-SIZE Altimate Electric, Inc. 126 FTE
STATE-SIZE Division 33 126 FTE
CITY-NEAR MD-03 4,250 FTE
CITY-NEAR AstraZeneca Frederick Manufacturing Center 775 FTE
CITY-NEAR AstraZeneca Frederick Manufacturing 711 FTE
CITY-NEAR Thermo Fisher Scientific Frederick, MD (BID - Executive Way) 568 FTE
NAT-TCR Gopher State Contractors, Inc. 15.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Metal-Tech Industrial Corp. - a div. of Nor-Tech Industrial Corp. 15.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Boston 15.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 4769-437-Pottery Barn 15.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Silver Lake Center 126 FTE
NAT-SIZE NEAS 126 FTE
NAT-SIZE Police Department 126 FTE
NAT-SIZE St Elizabeth Healthcare Grant 126 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: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.