Nursing homes · Iowa

Chariton Specialty Care

Chariton, IA · ~45 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
8.1
Avg TCR
6.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Chariton Specialty Care runs at 124% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Nursing homes workplace, earning a grade D.

Chariton Specialty Care: 8.1 TCR = 124% of Nursing homes BLS 6.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Chariton Specialty Care safety composite

Chariton Specialty Care scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 15%), 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

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 8.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% 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

Chariton Specialty Care: 2.1 → 23.8 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 23.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.31× in 2023

Chariton Specialty Care's TCR rose 21.7 from 2.1 in 2016 to 23.8 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.31× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 8.1 · 124% of ind

  • DART 10.6 DART
  • RANK #241/396
  • PHOTO Purcell Care Cemter
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~45 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Purcell Care Cemter (0.0 TCR gap)

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Chariton Specialty Care in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Chariton Specialty Care averages 8.1 TCR (124% of the Nursing homes BLS benchmark).

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

Chariton Specialty Care TCR series: 2016=2.1 · 2017=6.3 · 2019=0 · 2023=23.8 · BLS 6.5

Where Chariton Specialty Care falls in its industry

15,252 Nursing homes establishments

Safer than 38% 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 #241 safest of 396 Nursing homes employers in Iowa.

Chariton Specialty Care (45 employees, TCR 8.1) 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 Chariton Specialty Care
Chariton Specialty Care (45 employees, TCR 8.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 106 employees and a TCR of 6.6

Chariton Specialty Care has fewer employees than the Nursing homes 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
2023 23.8 10.6 7 2 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 6.3 4.2 3 0 0
2016 2.1 2.1 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

623110 · IA · Chariton

15,252 Nursing homes employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 18 employers in Chariton, 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 Purcell Care Cemter 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR University City Operator LLC 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wilmot Care Center 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cedarburg Health Services 8.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bushel Boy - Mason City 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Amana Farms, Inc. 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Opal Foods Hampton 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Davenport Service Center 45 FTE
CITY-NEAR Grocery-Chariton 361 FTE
CITY-NEAR Truck-Chariton 338 FTE
CITY-NEAR Produce-Chariton 242 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lucas County Health Center 206 FTE
NAT-TCR Consolidated School 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Day Brook Village Senior Living 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Valley City 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR AWP-Cowen 8.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE 036-Odessa/42nd St 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE CentraCare Clinic Adult and Pediatric Urology 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kstci - Lenexa Trailer West Reg.-Shop 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ksott - Ottawa 45 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: 2023, 2019, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.