Continuing care retirement communities · Illinois

Dekalb Area Retirement Center

Dekalb, IL · ~226 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.2
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Dekalb Area Retirement Center runs at 59% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Continuing care retirement communities workplace, earning a grade B.

Dekalb Area Retirement Center: 2.2 TCR = 59% of Continuing care retirement communities BLS 3.8 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dekalb Area Retirement Center safety composite

Dekalb Area Retirement Center scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 92% 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

74/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 2.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 92% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 69% 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

Dekalb Area Retirement Center: 1.4 → 2.0 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 3.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.61× in 2024

Dekalb Area Retirement Center's TCR rose 0.7 from 1.4 in 2018 to 2.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 3.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.61× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 623311 · Dekalb, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.2 · 59% of ind

  • DART 1.4 DART
  • RANK #26/265
  • PHOTO Laurelhurst/Laurelwo…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~226 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Laurelhurst/Laurelwoods (0.0 TCR gap)

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Dekalb Area Retirement Center in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dekalb Area Retirement Center averages 2.2 TCR (59% of the Continuing care retirement communities BLS benchmark).

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

Dekalb Area Retirement Center TCR series: 2018=1.4 · 2021=1.5 · 2022=2.9 · 2023=3.4 · 2024=2 · BLS 3.8

Where Dekalb Area Retirement Center falls in its industry

4,127 Continuing care retirement com establishments

Safer than 92% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #26 safest of 265 Continuing care retirement com employers in Illinois.

Dekalb Area Retirement Center (226 employees, TCR 2.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 66 employees and a TCR of 6.9 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 050100150200250 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Dekalb Area Retirement Center
Dekalb Area Retirement Center (226 employees, TCR 2.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 66 employees and a TCR of 6.9

Dekalb Area Retirement Center has more employees than the Continuing care retirement communities median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.9. 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 2.0 1.4 3 0 0
2023 3.4 3.4 5 0 0
2022 2.9 2.9 4 0 0
2021 1.5 1.5 2 0 0
2018 1.4 1.4 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

623311 · IL · Dekalb

4,127 Continuing care retirement communities employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 93 employers in Dekalb, IL · 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 Laurelhurst/Laurelwoods 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR R V PROPERTIES LLC 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Everlan of Johnson City 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Brookdale Stonestreet 2.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Donaldson Company 226 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1002 - St. Charles 226 FTE
STATE-SIZE Meijer215 226 FTE
STATE-SIZE 5472-000000080 226 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3842 - UDC-DeKalb 1,635 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3842 - DeKalb UDC 1,411 FTE
CITY-NEAR Northwestern Medicine Kishwaukee Hospital 1,067 FTE
CITY-NEAR DeKalb Community Unit School District #428 940 FTE
NAT-TCR Farm 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Sabel Steel Scrap 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Eastward Companies Business Trust 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Famco Enterprises 2.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Kalas Lancaster Plant - ECPD 226 FTE
NAT-SIZE Coolport at Maritime 226 FTE
NAT-SIZE Logans HC 226 FTE
NAT-SIZE Corporate Coral Gables 226 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, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2018. 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.