Nursing homes · Minnesota

Essentia Health Homestead

Deer River, MN · ~31 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
31.4
Avg TCR
6.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Essentia Health Homestead runs at 482% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Nursing homes workplace, earning a grade F.

Essentia Health Homestead: 31.4 TCR = 482% of Nursing homes BLS 6.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Essentia Health Homestead safety composite

Essentia Health Homestead scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 0%), 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

18/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 31.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 0% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% 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

−21.7

2023→2024

Essentia Health Homestead injury rate improved

Essentia Health Homestead's TCR fell 21.7 from 42.2 in 2023 to 20.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 42.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.33× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=42.2 · 2024=20.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 623110 · Deer River, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 31.4 · 482% of ind

  • DART 10.3 DART
  • RANK #430/430
  • PHOTO Andover Manor Rehab …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~31 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Andover Manor Rehab and Nursing (1.4 TCR gap)

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Essentia Health Homestead in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Essentia Health Homestead averages 31.4 TCR (482% of the Nursing homes BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-09-26

Essentia Health Homestead TCR series: 2023=42.2 · 2024=20.5 · BLS 6.5

Where Essentia Health Homestead falls in its industry

15,252 Nursing homes establishments

Safer than 0% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #430 safest of 430 Nursing homes employers in Minnesota.

Essentia Health Homestead (31 employees, TCR 31.4) 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 010203040 Average employees Total Case Rate Essentia Health Homestead
Essentia Health Homestead (31 employees, TCR 31.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 106 employees and a TCR of 6.6

Essentia Health Homestead 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 20.5 10.3 2 2 0
2023 42.2 36.9 1 7 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

623110 · MN · Deer River

15,252 Nursing homes employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 12 employers in Deer River, MN · 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 Andover Manor Rehab and Nursing 30.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Shook Home 29.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 226_338 29.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 9288-752 29.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sharpe Dillon Cockson and Associates 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nagurski Transportation 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Harrison Bay Senior Living 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE RAJALA TIMBER CO 31 FTE
CITY-NEAR Essentia Deer River Hospital 185 FTE
CITY-NEAR Essentia Deer Healthcare Center 124 FTE
CITY-NEAR ISD 317 King Elementary School 98 FTE
CITY-NEAR King Elementary School 88 FTE
NAT-TCR Governor Juan F. Luis Hospital and Medical Center 30.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 048 Juvenile Detention Center 30.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Rockland Facility 30.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Kemper Moving Systems 30.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE C351 Morgantown 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hanford Grain Company, LLC 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE West Bay Sanitary District 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ross SFS 31 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. 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.