Homes for the elderly with nursing care · New York

Castle Gardens

Vestal, NY · ~80 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
9.5
Avg TCR
6.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Castle Gardens runs at 146% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Homes for the elderly with nursing care workplace, earning a grade D.

Castle Gardens: 9.5 TCR = 146% of Homes for the elderly with nursing care BLS 6.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Castle Gardens safety composite

Castle Gardens scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 5%), 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 9.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

DART rate
F 23.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% 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

Castle Gardens: 4.8 → 23.7 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 23.7 TCR · DART/TCR 2.5× in 2021

Castle Gardens's TCR rose 19.0 from 4.8 in 2016 to 23.7 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 2.5× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 623110 · Vestal, NY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 9.5 · 146% of ind

  • DART 23.7 DART
  • RANK #454/616
  • PHOTO Millers Merry Manor
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~80 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Millers Merry Manor (0.0 TCR gap)

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Castle Gardens in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Castle Gardens averages 9.5 TCR (146% of the Homes for the elderly with nursing care BLS benchmark).

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

Castle Gardens TCR series: 2016=4.8 · 2017=4.4 · 2019=3 · 2020=11.4 · 2021=23.7 · BLS 6.5

Where Castle Gardens falls in its industry

15,252 Homes for the elderly with nur establishments

Safer than 30% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #454 safest of 616 Homes for the elderly with nur employers in New York.

Castle Gardens (80 employees, TCR 9.5) 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 Castle Gardens
Castle Gardens (80 employees, TCR 9.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 106 employees and a TCR of 6.6

Castle Gardens has fewer employees than the Homes for the elderly with nursing care 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 23.7 23.7 2 9 0
2020 11.4 9.8 2 5 0
2019 3.0 1.5 2 0 0
2017 4.4 2.9 2 1 0
2016 4.8 4.8 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

623110 · NY · Vestal

15,252 Homes for the elderly with nursing care employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 61 employers in Vestal, NY · 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 Millers Merry Manor 9.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wellbrooke of Kokomo 9.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ms Care Center of Raleigh 9.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Judson Park 9.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Taconic Biosciences, Inc. Worldwide Headquarters Hudson 80 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lake Ontario Fruit, Inc. 80 FTE
STATE-SIZE First Realty Management 80 FTE
STATE-SIZE 105625 - Jett Carrying - 149MW High River Racking 80 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1835 467 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1835 416 FTE
CITY-NEAR United Medical Associates, PC 398 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1056 - Binghamton Vestal 268 FTE
NAT-TCR Stowe 9.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Nunes Cooling Inc - Cantua Creek, CA 9.5 TCR
NAT-TCR La Quinta Inn & Suites Tucson - Reid Park 9.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Riverbanks Zoo & Garden 9.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE SWALK Operations, LLC 80 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tanglewood Trace 80 FTE
NAT-SIZE Roll Rite, LLC Gladwin 80 FTE
NAT-SIZE 435 Phalen Blvd 80 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, 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.