Skilled nursing facilities · Arizona

Desert Cove Nursing Center

Chandler, AZ · ~144 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
5.7
Avg TCR
6.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Desert Cove Nursing Center runs at 87% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Skilled nursing facilities workplace, earning a grade C.

Desert Cove Nursing Center: 5.7 TCR = 87% of Skilled nursing facilities BLS 6.5 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Desert Cove Nursing Center safety composite

Desert Cove Nursing Center scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 59% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 24%), 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

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 5.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% 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

Desert Cove Nursing Center: 5.3 → 8.6 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 56.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.27× in 2023

Desert Cove Nursing Center's TCR rose 3.3 from 5.3 in 2016 to 8.6 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2020 at 56.7 TCR. In 2023, DART was 1.27× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 623110 · Chandler, AZ AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 5.7 · 87% of ind

  • DART 7.2 DART
  • RANK #55/130
  • PHOTO Monroe SNF
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 56 inj
  • SIZE ~144 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Monroe SNF (0.0 TCR gap)

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Desert Cove Nursing Center in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Desert Cove Nursing Center averages 5.7 TCR (87% of the Skilled nursing facilities BLS benchmark).

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

Desert Cove Nursing Center TCR series: 2016=5.3 · 2017=6.6 · 2018=3.5 · 2020=56.7 · 2021=5.8 · 2022=4.1 · 2023=8.6 · BLS 6.5

Where Desert Cove Nursing Center falls in its industry

15,252 Skilled nursing facilities establishments

Safer than 59% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Arizona alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #55 safest of 130 Skilled nursing facilities employers in Arizona.

Desert Cove Nursing Center (144 employees, TCR 5.7) 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 Desert Cove Nursing Center
Desert Cove Nursing Center (144 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 106 employees and a TCR of 6.6

Desert Cove Nursing Center has more employees than the Skilled nursing facilities median and a lower 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 8.6 7.2 6 0 0
2022 4.1 1.4 3 0 0
2021 5.8 2.9 4 0 0
2020 56.7 35.3 28 17 0
2018 3.5 3.5 3 0 0
2017 6.6 5.7 7 0 0
2016 5.3 4.2 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

623110 · AZ · Chandler

15,252 Skilled nursing facilities employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 9,594 rated employers in Arizona with headcount on file · 462 employers in Chandler, AZ · 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 Monroe SNF 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Heritage Park Rehabilitation and Skilled Nursing Center 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Life Care Center of Morehead 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 775 FAIRLAND NSG AND REHAB RHS 5.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE AEC Electric 144 FTE
STATE-SIZE Procter & Gamble Manufacturing Company 144 FTE
STATE-SIZE Forms+Surfaces Phoenix 144 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4598-RTC PHOENIX 144 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chandler Campus 6,163 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ocotillo Campus 5,428 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6403-64030510 3,265 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2643-64030510-510001 2,446 FTE
NAT-TCR 1200 11th Ave Greeley CO 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR OceanX FHR 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Stop & Shop 100650 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Stop & Shop 100887 5.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Dolphin Transportation 144 FTE
NAT-SIZE Supplyone Oklahoma City, Inc. - 1 144 FTE
NAT-SIZE Plasma-Therm, LLC 144 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stop & Shop 100066 144 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 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.