Assisted Living Facility · Virginia

Birch Gardens Assisted Living

Name: Birch Gardens Assisted Living Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Staunton, VA · ~31 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

B
Good Safety Record: 3.7
Avg TCR: 6.5
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Birch Gardens Assisted Living runs at 56% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Assisted Living Facility workplace, earning a grade B.

Birch Gardens Assisted Living: 3.7 TCR = 56% of Assisted Living Facility BLS 6.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Birch Gardens Assisted Living safety composite

Birch Gardens Assisted Living scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 78% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 29%), 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).

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): B 3.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% of industry peers
DART rate: F 6.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% 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 Gardens Assisted Living: 4.9 → 6.1 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 6.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.67× in 2019

Birch Gardens Assisted Living's TCR rose 1.2 from 4.9 in 2017 to 6.1 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 1.67× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 623110 · Staunton, VA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 3.7 · 56% of ind

DART 6.1 DART
RANK #81/343
PHOTO Cityview Nursing and…
BOOK 3y book
INJ 2 inj
SIZE ~31 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cityview Nursing and Rehabilitation Center (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Birch Gardens Assisted Living averages 3.7 TCR (56% of the Assisted Living Facility BLS benchmark).

Birch Gardens Assisted Living TCR series: 2017=4.9 · 2018=0 · 2019=6.1 · BLS 6.5

Where Birch Gardens Assisted Living falls in its industry

15,252 Assisted Living Facility establishments

Safer than 78% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.6.

Grade B

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #81 safest of 343 Assisted Living Facility employers in Virginia.

Birch Gardens Assisted Living (31 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 106 employees and a TCR of 6.6

Birch Gardens Assisted Living has fewer employees than the Assisted Living Facility median and a lower 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
2019	6.1	6.1	1
2018	0.0	0.0	0
2017	4.9	0.0	1

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

623110 · VA · Staunton

15,252 Assisted Living Facility employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 73 employers in Staunton, VA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Cityview Nursing and Rehabilitation Center	FORT WORTH, TX	3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	HARRISON TERRACE	INDIANAPOLIS, IN, IN	3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Immaculate Mary Center	PHILADELPHIA, PA	3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	The Terrace	WAUKEGAN, IL	3.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE	WARREN COUNTY POWER STATION	FRONT ROYAL	31 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Dabney	RICHMOND	31 FTE
STATE-SIZE	NAES : Pittsylvania	HURT	31 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Southampton Power Station	FRANKLIN	31 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Western State Hospital	Staunton	762 FTE
CITY-NEAR	1344	Staunton	329 FTE
CITY-NEAR	WM 1344	Staunton	324 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Staunton VA	Staunton	204 FTE
NAT-TCR	JR Simplot-Lathrop Plant	Lathrop, CA	3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Englewood Operations	Englewood, CO	3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Duffy Bros, Inc.	Columbus, WI	3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Bick Group Inc.	Maryland Heights, MO	3.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Mercado Grill 22 LLC	Union, NJ	31 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Dupont - Pioneer Johnston Parent	Johnston, IA	31 FTE
NAT-SIZE	TTI- Fairburn, GA	Fairburn, GA	31 FTE
NAT-SIZE	US SC Sumter Plant	Sumter, SC	31 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: 2019, 2018, 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.