Retirement communities, continuing care · Maine

Birch Bay Retirement Village

Bar Harbor, ME · ~63 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.1
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Birch Bay Retirement Village runs at 214% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Retirement communities, continuing care workplace, earning a grade F.

Birch Bay Retirement Village: 8.1 TCR = 214% of Retirement communities, continuing care BLS 3.8 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Birch Bay Retirement Village safety composite

Birch Bay Retirement Village scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 8.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% 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

Birch Bay Retirement Village: 7.1 → 8.6 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 14.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.79× in 2024

Birch Bay Retirement Village's TCR rose 1.4 from 7.1 in 2017 to 8.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 14.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.79× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 623311 · Bar Harbor, ME ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.1 · 214% of ind

  • DART 6.4 DART
  • RANK #3/9
  • PHOTO Community Support Se…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~63 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Community Support Services (0.0 TCR gap)

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Birch Bay Retirement Village in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Birch Bay Retirement Village averages 8.1 TCR (214% of the Retirement communities, continuing care BLS benchmark).

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

Birch Bay Retirement Village TCR series: 2017=7.1 · 2018=7.5 · 2019=6.2 · 2020=5.7 · 2021=11 · 2022=4.1 · 2023=14.9 · 2024=8.6 · BLS 3.8

Where Birch Bay Retirement Village falls in its industry

4,127 Retirement communities, contin establishments

Safer than 41% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Maine alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 9 Retirement communities, contin employers in Maine.

Birch Bay Retirement Village (63 employees, TCR 8.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 66 employees and a TCR of 6.9 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 050100150200250 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Birch Bay Retirement Village
Birch Bay Retirement Village (63 employees, TCR 8.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 66 employees and a TCR of 6.9

Birch Bay Retirement Village has fewer employees than the Retirement communities, continuing care median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.9. 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 8.6 6.4 2 2 0
2023 14.9 14.9 1 6 0
2022 4.1 4.1 2 0 0
2021 11.0 7.3 2 4 0
2020 5.7 3.8 3 0 0
2019 6.2 4.1 3 0 0
2018 7.5 3.8 4 0 0
2017 7.1 7.1 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

623311 · ME · Bar Harbor

4,127 Retirement communities, continuing care employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 2,397 rated employers in Maine with headcount on file · 7 employers in Bar Harbor, ME · 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 Community Support Services 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR KINGSWOOD PLACE 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Park Vista - The Legacy 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rydal Park 8.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Lajoie Brothers, Inc. 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE All States Construction, Inc. Maine 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sappi North America - Tech Center 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE JSI Store Fixtures Bangor 63 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mount Desert Island Hospital 450 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bar Harbor Inn 105 FTE
CITY-NEAR 8224 98 FTE
CITY-NEAR 08224 - Store # 8224 Bar Harbor 97 FTE
NAT-TCR Anawalt Lumber-Highland 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR The Estates at St. Louis Park 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Springtree Rehabilitation and Health Care Center 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Advance Ready Mix Concrete, Inc Plant 2 8.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Todd Construction, Inc. Main Office 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rouses Market #17 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gallo Center for the Arts 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE Technology for Energy Corporation 63 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.