Home health agencies · Connecticut

BrightStar Care of Hartford

Name: BrightStar Care of Hartford Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Suffield, CT · ~39 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

D
Poor Safety Record: 6.3
Avg TCR: 5.2
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

BrightStar Care of Hartford runs at 122% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Home health agencies workplace, earning a grade D.

BrightStar Care of Hartford: 6.3 TCR = 122% of Home health agencies BLS 5.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

BrightStar Care of Hartford safety composite

BrightStar Care of Hartford scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 4%), 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).

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 6.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% of industry peers
DART rate: F 12.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers
Fatalities: D 0

Safer than 50% 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

BrightStar Care of Hartford: 0.0 → 12.7 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 12.7 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2021

BrightStar Care of Hartford's TCR rose 12.7 from 0.0 in 2020 to 12.7 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 621610 · Suffield, CT ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.3 · 122% of ind

DART 12.7 DART
RANK #34/59
PHOTO TheraCare Home Healt…
BOOK 2y book
INJ 0 inj
SIZE ~39 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: TheraCare Home Health Lewisville (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows BrightStar Care of Hartford averages 6.3 TCR (122% of the Home health agencies BLS benchmark).

BrightStar Care of Hartford TCR series: 2020=0 · 2021=12.7 · BLS 5.2

Where BrightStar Care of Hartford falls in its industry

3,635 Home health agencies establishments

Safer than 31% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

Grade D

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Connecticut alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #34 safest of 59 Home health agencies employers in Connecticut.

BrightStar Care of Hartford (39 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 4.4

BrightStar Care of Hartford has fewer employees than the Home health agencies median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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
2021	12.7	12.7	0	3	0
2020	0.0	0.0	0	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

621610 · CT · Suffield

3,635 Home health agencies employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,008 rated employers in Connecticut with headcount on file · 24 employers in Suffield, CT · 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	TheraCare Home Health Lewisville	ADDISON, TX	6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	0143 - ERI	ERIE, PA	6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	0126 - WSV	WILKES BARRE, PA	6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	south Bay healthcare INC	MILPITAS, CA	6.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Water pollution control authority	STAMFORD	39 FTE
STATE-SIZE	AJ WASTE SYSTEMS LLC	CHESHIRE	39 FTE
STATE-SIZE	yrc	NEW HAVEN	39 FTE
STATE-SIZE	CEF CT	MIDDLETOWN	39 FTE
CITY-NEAR	MacDougall-Walker Correctional Institution	Suffield	645 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Suffield Manor Incorporated	Suffield	228 FTE
CITY-NEAR	CS Wholesale Grocers : Suffield, CT (GDC)	Suffield	203 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Kongsberg Automotive	Suffield	179 FTE
NAT-TCR	Ram Tool Construction Supply Company - Atlanta	Atlanta, GA	6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	RHS	Rock Hill, SC	6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	BC	Jamison, PA	6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	0600 - Lacey IW	Lacey, WA	6.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Miller Expedited Freight	Indianapolis, IN	39 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Ft. Wayne Home Care	Ft. Wayne, IN	39 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Featherlite Davis Corners	Cresco, IA	39 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Entergy Conway	Conway, AR	39 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: 2021, 2020. 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.