Skilled nursing facilities · Iowa

Careage Hills Rehabilitation and Healthcare

Cherokee, IA · ~48 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
9.1
Avg TCR
6.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Careage Hills Rehabilitation and Healthcare runs at 139% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Skilled nursing facilities workplace, earning a grade D.

Careage Hills Rehabilitation and Healthcare: 9.1 TCR = 139% of Skilled nursing facilities BLS 6.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Careage Hills Rehabilitation and Healthcare safety composite

Careage Hills Rehabilitation and Healthcare scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 32%), 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

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.5

2016→2024

Careage Hills Rehabilitation and Healthcare injury rate improved

Careage Hills Rehabilitation and Healthcare's TCR fell 0.5 from 8.6 in 2016 to 8.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 13.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.6× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=8.6 · 2017=3.9 · 2018=13.3 · 2019=11.5 · 2024=8.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 623110 · Cherokee, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 9.1 · 139% of ind

  • DART 5.4 DART
  • RANK #265/396
  • PHOTO Heritage Hall
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~48 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Heritage Hall (0.0 TCR gap)

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Careage Hills Rehabilitation and Healthcare in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Careage Hills Rehabilitation and Healthcare averages 9.1 TCR (139% of the Skilled nursing facilities BLS benchmark).

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

Careage Hills Rehabilitation and Healthcare TCR series: 2016=8.6 · 2017=3.9 · 2018=13.3 · 2019=11.5 · 2024=8.1 · BLS 6.5

Where Careage Hills Rehabilitation and Healthcare falls in its industry

15,252 Skilled nursing facilities establishments

Safer than 32% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #265 safest of 396 Skilled nursing facilities employers in Iowa.

Careage Hills Rehabilitation and Healthcare (48 employees, TCR 9.1) 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 Careage Hills Rehabilitation and Healthcare
Careage Hills Rehabilitation and Healthcare (48 employees, TCR 9.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 106 employees and a TCR of 6.6

Careage Hills Rehabilitation and Healthcare has fewer 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
2024 8.1 5.4 3 0 0
2019 11.5 11.5 4 0 0
2018 13.3 0.0 4 0 0
2017 3.9 3.9 1 0 0
2016 8.6 8.6 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

623110 · IA · Cherokee

15,252 Skilled nursing facilities employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 24 employers in Cherokee, IA · 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 Hall 9.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Life Care Center of Casper 9.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pomeroy Living Rochester Skilled Rehabilitation 9.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Great River Care Center 9.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE J&J Cattle Co 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMVC Management Services 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Water Administration Building 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Greiner Buildings, Inc. 48 FTE
CITY-NEAR Grocery-Cherokee 307 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cherokee Regional Medical Center 299 FTE
CITY-NEAR DHS-Cherokee Mental Health Institute 166 FTE
CITY-NEAR Truck-Cherokee 110 FTE
NAT-TCR American House - Johnson City 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Petersen Brothers Inc 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR TN - Tennyson 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Fleet Roads and Streets 9.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Mercury Corporation 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE United Dairymen of Arizona (Alameda) 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Addington Place of Shoal Creek 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kinship Pointe at McCook 48 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: 2024, 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.