Rest homes without nursing care · North Carolina

Forest Ridge Assisted Living

West Jefferson, NC · ~46 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
21.8
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Forest Ridge Assisted Living runs at 573% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Rest homes without nursing care workplace, earning a grade F.

Forest Ridge Assisted Living: 21.8 TCR = 573% of Rest homes without nursing care BLS 3.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Forest Ridge Assisted Living safety composite

Forest Ridge Assisted Living scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 1%), 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

14/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 21.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
F 38.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

Forest Ridge Assisted Living: 5.5 → 38.0 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 38.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.75× in 2024

Forest Ridge Assisted Living's TCR rose 32.6 from 5.5 in 2021 to 38.0 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.75× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 623312 · West Jefferson, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 21.8 · 573% of ind

  • DART 38.0 DART
  • RANK #354/356
  • PHOTO Southview - Inver Gl…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~46 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Southview - Inver Glen Senior Living (0.0 TCR gap)

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Forest Ridge Assisted Living in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Forest Ridge Assisted Living averages 21.8 TCR (573% of the Rest homes without nursing care BLS benchmark).

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

Forest Ridge Assisted Living TCR series: 2021=5.5 · 2024=38 · BLS 3.8

Where Forest Ridge Assisted Living falls in its industry

6,510 Rest homes without nursing car establishments

Safer than 3% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 7.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #354 safest of 356 Rest homes without nursing car employers in North Carolina.

Forest Ridge Assisted Living (46 employees, TCR 21.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 7.2 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 0100200300 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Forest Ridge Assisted Living
Forest Ridge Assisted Living (46 employees, TCR 21.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 7.2

Forest Ridge Assisted Living has fewer employees than the Rest homes without nursing care median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 7.2. 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 38.0 38.0 3 8 0
2021 5.5 5.5 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

623312 · NC · West Jefferson

6,510 Rest homes without nursing care employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 15 employers in West Jefferson, NC · 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 Southview - Inver Glen Senior Living 21.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Forest Grove Beehive 21.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Brookdale Paducah 21.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Park of Pacific Palisades 21.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Harrells Facility 46 FTE
STATE-SIZE Buy Sod, Inc. 46 FTE
STATE-SIZE Buck Steam Station 46 FTE
STATE-SIZE KITTY HAWK AREA 46 FTE
CITY-NEAR Supply Chain West Jefferson NC 284 FTE
CITY-NEAR Supply Chain : West Jefferson, NC 279 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 3289 248 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3289 237 FTE
NAT-TCR Flexsteel Industries Inc.,-Edgerton 21.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 6458-ZARC 21.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Trader Joe's 0049 Sherman Oaks 21.8 TCR
NAT-TCR North Alabama Specialty Hospital 21.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ragnar Events LLC 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE Independent Recycling Services Inc 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE RASIRC 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE Westwood Dermatology and Dermatologic Surgery Group 46 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, 2021. 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.