Nursing homes · Iowa

Elkader Care Center

Elkader, IA · ~57 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
8.9
Avg TCR
6.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Elkader Care Center runs at 136% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Nursing homes workplace, earning a grade D.

Elkader Care Center: 8.9 TCR = 136% of Nursing homes BLS 6.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Elkader Care Center safety composite

Elkader Care Center 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

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.4 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

Elkader Care Center: 5.7 → 10.4 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 24.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.17× in 2024

Elkader Care Center's TCR rose 4.7 from 5.7 in 2016 to 10.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 24.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.17× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 8.9 · 136% of ind

  • DART 10.4 DART
  • RANK #261/396
  • PHOTO Oakridge Gardens Nur…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~57 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Oakridge Gardens Nursing Center, Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Elkader Care Center in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Elkader Care Center averages 8.9 TCR (136% of the Nursing homes BLS benchmark).

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

Elkader Care Center TCR series: 2016=5.7 · 2018=3.7 · 2020=3.5 · 2022=24 · 2023=6 · 2024=10.4 · BLS 6.5

Where Elkader Care Center falls in its industry

15,252 Nursing homes establishments

Safer than 33% 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 #261 safest of 396 Nursing homes employers in Iowa.

Elkader Care Center (57 employees, TCR 8.9) 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 Elkader Care Center
Elkader Care Center (57 employees, TCR 8.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 106 employees and a TCR of 6.6

Elkader Care Center 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
2024 10.4 10.4 3 0 0
2023 6.0 0.0 2 0 0
2022 24.0 20.6 5 2 0
2020 3.5 3.5 1 0 0
2018 3.7 3.7 1 0 0
2016 5.7 5.7 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

623110 · IA · Elkader

15,252 Nursing homes employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 7 employers in Elkader, 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 Oakridge Gardens Nursing Center, Inc 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bayshore Pointe Nursing and Rehab Center 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Creamery Brook Retirement Village 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Avera Eureka Health Care 8.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Winfield United - Vincent 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE Henning Companies, LLC 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE Black Hawk Roof Company 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE Guthrie Center Breaker Plant 57 FTE
CITY-NEAR C. J. Moyna & Sons, LLC 222 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mobile Track Solutions 108 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bodensteinter Implement Company - Elkader Location 39 FTE
CITY-NEAR Elkader IA Yard 30 FTE
NAT-TCR Dominican Village 8.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Clark Retirement Community 8.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Jones Wholesale Lumber Company, Inc. 8.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Viking Construction 8.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Pella Products Inc 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE West Elementary School 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE WellQuest of Elk Grove 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE Schweizer Dipple Inc. 57 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, 2020, 2018, 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.