Nursing homes · California

Empress Care Center

San Jose, CA · ~82 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
4.9
Avg TCR
6.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Empress Care Center runs at 75% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Nursing homes workplace, earning a grade B.

Empress Care Center: 4.9 TCR = 75% of Nursing homes BLS 6.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Empress Care Center safety composite

Empress Care Center scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 67% 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

63/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 66% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.5

2017→2023

Empress Care Center injury rate improved

Empress Care Center's TCR fell 0.5 from 2.5 in 2017 to 2.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 11.8 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.4× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=2.5 · 2018=4.8 · 2019=8.3 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=11.8 · 2023=2.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 623110 · San Jose, CA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 4.9 · 75% of ind

  • DART 2.0 DART
  • RANK #145/739
  • PHOTO Oelwein Health Care …
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~82 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Oelwein Health Care Center (0.0 TCR gap)

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Empress Care Center in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Empress Care Center averages 4.9 TCR (75% of the Nursing homes BLS benchmark).

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

Empress Care Center TCR series: 2017=2.5 · 2018=4.8 · 2019=8.3 · 2020=0 · 2021=11.8 · 2023=2 · BLS 6.5

Where Empress Care Center falls in its industry

15,252 Nursing homes establishments

Safer than 66% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #145 safest of 739 Nursing homes employers in California.

Empress Care Center (82 employees, TCR 4.9) 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 Empress Care Center
Empress Care Center (82 employees, TCR 4.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 106 employees and a TCR of 6.6

Empress Care Center has fewer employees than the Nursing homes 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 2.0 2.0 1 0 0
2021 11.8 9.2 9 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 1 0 0
2019 8.3 5.0 5 0 0
2018 4.8 1.6 3 0 0
2017 2.5 2.5 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

623110 · CA · San Jose

15,252 Nursing homes employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 1,102 employers in San Jose, CA · 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 Oelwein Health Care Center 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR North Las Vegas Care Center 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR University Heights 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Marywood Heights 4.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE West Coast Harvesting Inc. 82 FTE
STATE-SIZE Farm 82 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wight Vineyard Management, Inc. 82 FTE
STATE-SIZE Growers Harvesting LLC 82 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2636-CALIFORNIA.SAN JOSE 11,308 FTE
CITY-NEAR Santa Clara Valley Healthcare, Valley Medical Center (Hospital & Clinics) 7,299 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rosendin - Main 6,964 FTE
CITY-NEAR Santa Clara Valley Medical Center (SCVMC & Clinics) 6,576 FTE
NAT-TCR R 1601 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Decker Farms, Inc. 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Unit #2751 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Dillwyn Correctional Center 4.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Davis Regional Medical Center 82 FTE
NAT-SIZE Empire Merchants North-Syracuse 82 FTE
NAT-SIZE St. Joseph Med Ctr (MD) 82 FTE
NAT-SIZE GA Aquarm Catering* 82 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.