Nursing homes · Kansas

Buhler Sunshine Home

Buhler, KS · ~131 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
3.1
Avg TCR
6.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Buhler Sunshine Home runs at 48% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Nursing homes workplace, earning a grade A.

Buhler Sunshine Home: 3.1 TCR = 48% of Nursing homes BLS 6.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Buhler Sunshine Home safety composite

Buhler Sunshine Home scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 83% 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

69/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 3.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% 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%).

Buhler Sunshine Home held a steady TCR band

Buhler Sunshine Home's TCR held near 0.2 from 2.0 in 2016 to 2.2 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2018 at 6.3 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.7× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=2.0 · 2017=2.1 · 2018=6.3 · 2019=5.1 · 2020=1.1 · 2021=2.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 623110 · Buhler, KS AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 3.1 · 48% of ind

  • DART 2.2 DART
  • RANK #55/264
  • PHOTO Garden View Care Cen…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~131 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Garden View Care Center (0.0 TCR gap)

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Buhler Sunshine Home in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Buhler Sunshine Home averages 3.1 TCR (48% of the Nursing homes BLS benchmark).

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

Buhler Sunshine Home TCR series: 2016=2 · 2017=2.1 · 2018=6.3 · 2019=5.1 · 2020=1.1 · 2021=2.2 · BLS 6.5

Where Buhler Sunshine Home falls in its industry

15,252 Nursing homes establishments

Safer than 83% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #55 safest of 264 Nursing homes employers in Kansas.

Buhler Sunshine Home (131 employees, TCR 3.1) 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 Buhler Sunshine Home
Buhler Sunshine Home (131 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 106 employees and a TCR of 6.6

Buhler Sunshine Home has more 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
2021 2.2 2.2 2 0 0
2020 1.1 1.1 1 0 0
2019 5.1 3.1 5 0 0
2018 6.3 1.1 6 0 0
2017 2.1 1.0 2 0 0
2016 2.0 1.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

623110 · KS · Buhler

15,252 Nursing homes employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 3 employers in Buhler, KS · 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 Garden View Care Center 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Roseview Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, LLC 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lake Taylor Transitional Hospital 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jewish Home and Care Center 3.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE XLT Ovens 131 FTE
STATE-SIZE Superior Wall St. 131 FTE
STATE-SIZE CENTRAL MECHANICAL WICHITA, LLC 131 FTE
STATE-SIZE MCT Services, LLC 131 FTE
CITY-NEAR SUNSHINE MEADOWS RETIREMENT COMMUNITY 128 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gregory, Inc. 33 FTE
NAT-TCR Assisted Living 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR NA-US-MA-Norwell-Washington Street 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Woodfin Heating Inc. 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Sturges Manufacturing Company 3.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ciox Health - Bluegrass Office 131 FTE
NAT-SIZE MST - Long Beach 131 FTE
NAT-SIZE OCPW Operations & Maintenance 131 FTE
NAT-SIZE Edina ISD #273 - Concord Elementary 131 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, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.