Continuing care retirement communities · South Carolina

Brightwater Retirement, LLC

Myrtle Beach, SC · ~180 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.4
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Brightwater Retirement, LLC runs at 222% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Continuing care retirement communities workplace, earning a grade F.

Brightwater Retirement, LLC: 8.4 TCR = 222% of Continuing care retirement communities BLS 3.8 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Brightwater Retirement, LLC safety composite

Brightwater Retirement, LLC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 19%), 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

35/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 8.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% 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

Brightwater Retirement, LLC: 7.4 → 8.7 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 9.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.03× in 2021

Brightwater Retirement, LLC's TCR rose 1.3 from 7.4 in 2016 to 8.7 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2018 at 9.9 TCR. In 2021, DART was 1.03× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 623311 · Myrtle Beach, SC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 8.4 · 222% of ind

  • DART 8.7 DART
  • RANK #57/76
  • PHOTO Oak Leaf Manor North
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 52 inj
  • SIZE ~180 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Oak Leaf Manor North (0.0 TCR gap)

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Brightwater Retirement, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Brightwater Retirement, LLC averages 8.4 TCR (222% of the Continuing care retirement communities BLS benchmark).

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

Brightwater Retirement, LLC TCR series: 2016=7.4 · 2017=9.9 · 2018=9.9 · 2020=6.3 · 2021=8.7 · BLS 3.8

Where Brightwater Retirement, LLC falls in its industry

4,127 Continuing care retirement com establishments

Safer than 39% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #57 safest of 76 Continuing care retirement com employers in South Carolina.

Brightwater Retirement, LLC (180 employees, TCR 8.4) 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 Brightwater Retirement, LLC
Brightwater Retirement, LLC (180 employees, TCR 8.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 66 employees and a TCR of 6.9

Brightwater Retirement, LLC has more employees than the Continuing care retirement communities 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
2021 8.7 8.7 9 0 0
2020 6.3 6.3 9 1 0
2018 9.9 6.6 9 0 0
2017 9.9 6.4 14 0 0
2016 7.4 7.4 11 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

623311 · SC · Myrtle Beach

4,127 Continuing care retirement communities employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 244 employers in Myrtle Beach, SC · 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 Oak Leaf Manor North 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Welcov Assisted Living at Kearney 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Georgetowne Place 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR ACTS Retirement-Life Communities-St. Andrews Estates 8.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE UFP NAC, LLC 180 FTE
STATE-SIZE SC Steel LLC 180 FTE
STATE-SIZE Filtration Group LLC 180 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2207 LOWE S OF N. AUGUSTA SC 180 FTE
CITY-NEAR HCA - Grand Strand Medical Center 1,584 FTE
CITY-NEAR Grand Strand Health 1,257 FTE
CITY-NEAR Founders National Golf, LLC 829 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ocean Lakes Service Corp. 440 FTE
NAT-TCR Utica Ambulance Service 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Buckeye Diamond Logistics - Aurora 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Flowers Baking Company of Oxford, Inc. 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR NAPA Seattle Main Counter 8.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Atkins Nuclear Secured - Isotek 180 FTE
NAT-SIZE Plant 6 180 FTE
NAT-SIZE Caldwell Hospice and Palliative Care 180 FTE
NAT-SIZE Primoris Services Corporation- Equipment West 180 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, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.