Skilled nursing facilities · Alabama

Bill Nichols State Veterans Home

Alexander City, AL · ~186 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
9.7
Avg TCR
6.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bill Nichols State Veterans Home runs at 149% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Skilled nursing facilities workplace, earning a grade D.

Bill Nichols State Veterans Home: 9.7 TCR = 149% of Skilled nursing facilities BLS 6.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bill Nichols State Veterans Home safety composite

Bill Nichols State Veterans Home scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 23%), 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)
F 9.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% 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

Bill Nichols State Veterans Home: 5.4 → 7.5 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 16.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.78× in 2023

Bill Nichols State Veterans Home's TCR rose 2.1 from 5.4 in 2018 to 7.5 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 16.1 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.78× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 623110 · Alexander City, AL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 9.7 · 149% of ind

  • DART 7.5 DART
  • RANK #183/269
  • PHOTO Medilodge of Capital…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 22 inj
  • SIZE ~186 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Medilodge of Capital Area (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bill Nichols State Veterans Home in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bill Nichols State Veterans Home averages 9.7 TCR (149% of the Skilled nursing facilities BLS benchmark).

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

Bill Nichols State Veterans Home TCR series: 2018=5.4 · 2021=16.1 · 2023=7.5 · BLS 6.5

Where Bill Nichols State Veterans Home falls in its industry

15,252 Skilled nursing facilities establishments

Safer than 29% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alabama alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #183 safest of 269 Skilled nursing facilities employers in Alabama.

Bill Nichols State Veterans Home (186 employees, TCR 9.7) 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 Bill Nichols State Veterans Home
Bill Nichols State Veterans Home (186 employees, TCR 9.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 106 employees and a TCR of 6.6

Bill Nichols State Veterans Home 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 7.5 7.5 13 0 0
2021 16.1 16.1 1 41 0
2018 5.4 4.1 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

623110 · AL · Alexander City

15,252 Skilled nursing facilities employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 41 employers in Alexander City, AL · 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 Medilodge of Capital Area 9.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Silver Oaks 9.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Riverside Lodge 9.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Medicalodges Independence 9.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE CRANEWORKS, INC 186 FTE
STATE-SIZE G&G Steel 186 FTE
STATE-SIZE Schwarze 186 FTE
STATE-SIZE Decatur AL 186 FTE
CITY-NEAR SL Alabama 620 FTE
CITY-NEAR WF Cabinetry 305 FTE
CITY-NEAR 726 295 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 726 283 FTE
NAT-TCR Stepp Manufacturing Co., Inc. 9.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Enviro Express Inc 9.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Wave Division Holdings, LLC-Woodburn 9.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Belrick Corporation 9.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Paladin Attachments 186 FTE
NAT-SIZE Technical Consumer Products, Inc 186 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bryan Manor 186 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mopac 186 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, 2021, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.