Mental health facilities, residential · California

Bear Creek

Merced, CA · ~15 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
19.5
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bear Creek runs at 514% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Mental health facilities, residential workplace, earning a grade F.

Bear Creek: 19.5 TCR = 514% of Mental health facilities, residential BLS 3.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bear Creek safety composite

Bear Creek scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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

16/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 19.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

DART rate
F 15.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% 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

−8.9

2017→2024

Bear Creek injury rate improved

Bear Creek's TCR fell 8.9 from 23.9 in 2017 to 15.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 23.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.77× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=23.9 · 2024=15.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 623220 · Merced, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 19.5 · 514% of ind

  • DART 15.1 DART
  • RANK #168/177
  • PHOTO Residential Opportun…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~15 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Residential Opportunities, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bear Creek in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bear Creek averages 19.5 TCR (514% of the Mental health facilities, residential BLS benchmark).

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

Bear Creek TCR series: 2017=23.9 · 2024=15.1 · BLS 3.8

Where Bear Creek falls in its industry

1,165 Mental health facilities, resi establishments

Safer than 5% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #168 safest of 177 Mental health facilities, resi employers in California.

Bear Creek (15 employees, TCR 19.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 0200400600800 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Bear Creek
Bear Creek (15 employees, TCR 19.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Bear Creek has fewer employees than the Mental health facilities, residential median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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 15.1 15.1 1 0 0
2017 23.9 19.2 4 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

623220 · CA · Merced

1,165 Mental health facilities, residential employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 187 employers in Merced, CA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Residential Opportunities, Inc. 19.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 03-045 PASADENA ARC 19.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Walker, Inc. 19.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR St. Monica Program 19.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE JK FARMS 15 FTE
STATE-SIZE workers 15 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pajaro Valley 15 FTE
STATE-SIZE MMF-Hemet 15 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6403-64030211 1,404 FTE
CITY-NEAR 64030211-211001 MERCY MEDICAL CENTER MERCED 1,306 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dignity Health 1,279 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2643-64030211-211001 1,200 FTE
NAT-TCR Buckley Heating 19.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Atl-Ground Ops 19.5 TCR
NAT-TCR North Central Fabricators LLC 19.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 6458-ZECL 19.5 TCR

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, 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.