Nursing homes · Minnesota

Birchwood Healthcare Center

Forest Lake, MN · ~105 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
26.3
Avg TCR
6.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Birchwood Healthcare Center runs at 404% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Nursing homes workplace, earning a grade F.

Birchwood Healthcare Center: 26.3 TCR = 404% of Nursing homes BLS 6.5 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Birchwood Healthcare Center safety composite

Birchwood Healthcare Center scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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

15/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 26.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
F 24.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% 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

Birchwood Healthcare Center: 23.7 → 24.6 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 75.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.93× in 2024

Birchwood Healthcare Center's TCR rose 0.9 from 23.7 in 2018 to 24.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 75.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.93× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 623110 · Forest Lake, MN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 26.3 · 404% of ind

  • DART 24.6 DART
  • RANK #427/430
  • PHOTO Cumberland KY OPOC LLC
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 39 inj
  • SIZE ~105 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cumberland KY OPOC LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Birchwood Healthcare Center in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Birchwood Healthcare Center averages 26.3 TCR (404% of the Nursing homes BLS benchmark).

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

Birchwood Healthcare Center TCR series: 2018=23.7 · 2019=9.3 · 2020=75.3 · 2021=31.7 · 2022=55.9 · 2023=42.2 · 2024=24.6 · BLS 6.5

Where Birchwood Healthcare Center falls in its industry

15,252 Nursing homes establishments

Safer than 1% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #427 safest of 430 Nursing homes employers in Minnesota.

Birchwood Healthcare Center (105 employees, TCR 26.3) 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 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Birchwood Healthcare Center
Birchwood Healthcare Center (105 employees, TCR 26.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 106 employees and a TCR of 6.6

Birchwood Healthcare Center has fewer 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
2024 24.6 24.6 2 10 0
2023 42.2 42.2 6 17 0
2022 55.9 55.9 4 32 0
2021 31.7 28.6 4 17 0
2020 75.3 75.3 1 59 0
2019 9.3 9.3 7 0 0
2018 23.7 15.8 15 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

623110 · MN · Forest Lake

15,252 Nursing homes employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 71 employers in Forest Lake, MN · 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 Cumberland KY OPOC LLC 26.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Crossville Health and Rehabilitation, LLC 26.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Claremore Skilled Nursing and Therapy 26.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Accolade Healthcare of Danville 26.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Wright Hennepin Cooperative Electric Association 105 FTE
STATE-SIZE D.R. Horton, Inc. - Minnesota 105 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Boldt Company - Cloquet, MN 105 FTE
STATE-SIZE Peterson Sheetmetal 105 FTE
CITY-NEAR Forest Lake YMCA 1,477 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2274 451 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2274 399 FTE
CITY-NEAR Vinco, Inc. 288 FTE
NAT-TCR 0662 - Amsterdam, Ny 26.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 0085 - Memphis, Tn 26.3 TCR
NAT-TCR D1 Stevenson Yard 26.3 TCR
NAT-TCR East Haven Public Works 26.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Continuing Healthcare of Niles 105 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ahern Menomonie (NW) 105 FTE
NAT-SIZE WATSON 105 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hardy Corporation 105 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. 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.