Nursing homes · Minnesota

Brainerd Carefree Living

Brainerd, MN · ~50 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
3.5
Avg TCR
6.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Brainerd Carefree Living runs at 54% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Nursing homes workplace, earning a grade B.

Brainerd Carefree Living: 3.5 TCR = 54% of Nursing homes BLS 6.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Brainerd Carefree Living safety composite

Brainerd Carefree Living scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 79% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

C

66/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 3.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 63% 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

Brainerd Carefree Living: 2.4 → 4.7 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 4.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.67× in 2018

Brainerd Carefree Living's TCR rose 2.4 from 2.4 in 2017 to 4.7 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.67× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 623110 · Brainerd, MN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 3.5 · 54% of ind

  • DART 2.4 DART
  • RANK #53/430
  • PHOTO Heritage Specialty C…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~50 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Heritage Specialty Care (0.0 TCR gap)

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Brainerd Carefree Living in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Brainerd Carefree Living averages 3.5 TCR (54% of the Nursing homes BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-09-26

Brainerd Carefree Living TCR series: 2017=2.4 · 2018=4.7 · BLS 6.5

Where Brainerd Carefree Living falls in its industry

15,252 Nursing homes establishments

Safer than 79% 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 #53 safest of 430 Nursing homes employers in Minnesota.

Brainerd Carefree Living (50 employees, TCR 3.5) 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 Brainerd Carefree Living
Brainerd Carefree Living (50 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 106 employees and a TCR of 6.6

Brainerd Carefree Living has fewer employees than the Nursing homes 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 Illnesses Fatalities
2018 4.7 2.4 2 0 0
2017 2.4 0.0 0 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

623110 · MN · Brainerd

15,252 Nursing homes employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 75 employers in Brainerd, 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 Heritage Specialty Care 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cumberland Nursing & Rehab 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trinity Glen 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Vinecroft Retirement Community by Heritage 3.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE West Elementary 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE Concast Inc Zumbrota 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE Synergy Delivery, LLC 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE City of Cottonwood 50 FTE
CITY-NEAR St Josephs Medical Center 1,012 FTE
CITY-NEAR Crow Wing County 522 FTE
CITY-NEAR Madden's on Gull Lake 262 FTE
CITY-NEAR Central Lakes Colloege - Brainerd and Staples Campuses 258 FTE
NAT-TCR Cumberland Nursing & Rehab 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Shopko Store #14 (Beaver Dam, WI) 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Mastic Home Exteriors, dba: Ply Gem Siding Group 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 631 - Bala Cynwyd 3.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE ARC Maintenance Inc 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Compassionate Care Hospice of Alexandria 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Compassionate Care Hospice of Chesapeake 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Subaru 50 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: 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.