Skilled nursing facilities · Indiana

Cardinal Nursing & Rehabilitation Center

South Bend, IN · ~115 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
10.8
Avg TCR
6.5
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Cardinal Nursing & Rehabilitation Center runs at 167% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Skilled nursing facilities workplace, earning a grade D.

Cardinal Nursing & Rehabilitation Center: 10.8 TCR = 167% of Skilled nursing facilities BLS 6.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cardinal Nursing & Rehabilitation Center safety composite

Cardinal Nursing & Rehabilitation Center scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 48% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (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

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 1% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.7

2016→2021

Cardinal Nursing & Rehabilitation Center injury rate improved

Cardinal Nursing & Rehabilitation Center's TCR fell 1.7 from 9.1 in 2016 to 7.4 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 25.4 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.34× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=9.1 · 2017=9.4 · 2018=5.5 · 2019=8.2 · 2020=25.4 · 2021=7.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 623110 · South Bend, IN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 10.8 · 167% of ind

  • DART 3.7 DART
  • RANK #520/640
  • PHOTO Big Meadows
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 41 inj
  • SIZE ~115 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Big Meadows (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cardinal Nursing & Rehabilitation Center in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cardinal Nursing & Rehabilitation Center averages 10.8 TCR (167% of the Skilled nursing facilities BLS benchmark).

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

Cardinal Nursing & Rehabilitation Center TCR series: 2016=9.1 · 2017=9.4 · 2018=5.5 · 2019=8.2 · 2020=25.4 · 2021=7.4 · BLS 6.5

Where Cardinal Nursing & Rehabilitation Center falls in its industry

15,252 Skilled nursing facilities establishments

Safer than 24% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #520 safest of 640 Skilled nursing facilities employers in Indiana.

Cardinal Nursing & Rehabilitation Center (115 employees, TCR 10.8) 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 Cardinal Nursing & Rehabilitation Center
Cardinal Nursing & Rehabilitation Center (115 employees, TCR 10.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 106 employees and a TCR of 6.6

Cardinal Nursing & Rehabilitation Center has more employees than the Skilled nursing facilities 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
2021 7.4 3.7 5 1 1
2020 25.4 25.4 4 19 0
2019 8.2 5.2 8 0 0
2018 5.5 0.0 5 0 0
2017 9.4 6.3 9 0 0
2016 9.1 6.3 10 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

623110 · IN · South Bend

15,252 Skilled nursing facilities employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 318 employers in South Bend, IN · 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 Big Meadows 10.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cedar Health & Rehabilitation 10.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Concordia at the Orchard 10.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lincolnshire Health and Rehabilitation 10.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE South Bend Svc Ctr 115 FTE
STATE-SIZE Main 115 FTE
STATE-SIZE Overhead Door Company Indianapolis Doors 115 FTE
STATE-SIZE AI Innovations 115 FTE
CITY-NEAR Memorial Hospital South Bend 2,914 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Joseph County 1,298 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fourwinds Casino South Bend 1,021 FTE
CITY-NEAR Honeywell IN08 810 FTE
NAT-TCR LAX-SCS 10.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Sunflower #9062 10.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Comarco 10.8 TCR
NAT-TCR CHEP Bowling Green Service Center (UT7U) 10.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Heavy Highway 115 FTE
NAT-SIZE CB&I, LLC. Houston Plant 115 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nestle USA, Freedom Facility 115 FTE
NAT-SIZE Peru Plant 115 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.