Assisted-living facilities with on-site nursing facilities · Connecticut

Gardenside

Branford, CT · ~106 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
16.4
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Gardenside runs at 433% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Assisted-living facilities with on-site nursing facilities workplace, earning a grade F.

Gardenside: 16.4 TCR = 433% of Assisted-living facilities with on-site nursing facilities BLS 3.8 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Gardenside safety composite

Gardenside scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 4%), 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 16.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers

DART rate
F 22.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% 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

Gardenside: 14.9 → 24.4 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 26.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.36× in 2021

Gardenside's TCR rose 9.5 from 14.9 in 2016 to 24.4 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 26.0 TCR. In 2021, DART was 1.36× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 623311 · Branford, CT ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 16.4 · 433% of ind

  • DART 22.4 DART
  • RANK #36/43
  • PHOTO Oak Terrace Senior H…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 27 inj
  • SIZE ~106 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Oak Terrace Senior Housing of Jordan (0.0 TCR gap)

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Gardenside in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Gardenside averages 16.4 TCR (433% of the Assisted-living facilities with on-site nursing facilities BLS benchmark).

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

Gardenside TCR series: 2016=14.9 · 2017=14.1 · 2019=2.7 · 2020=26 · 2021=24.4 · BLS 3.8

Where Gardenside falls in its industry

4,127 Assisted-living facilities wit establishments

Safer than 10% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Connecticut alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #36 safest of 43 Assisted-living facilities wit employers in Connecticut.

Gardenside (106 employees, TCR 16.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 66 employees and a TCR of 6.9 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 050100150200250 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Gardenside
Gardenside (106 employees, TCR 16.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 66 employees and a TCR of 6.9

Gardenside has more employees than the Assisted-living facilities with on-site median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.9. 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
2021 24.4 22.4 4 8 0
2020 26.0 26.0 6 11 0
2019 2.7 2.7 2 0 0
2017 14.1 9.9 7 3 0
2016 14.9 11.9 8 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

623311 · CT · Branford

4,127 Assisted-living facilities with on-site nursing facilities employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,008 rated employers in Connecticut with headcount on file · 75 employers in Branford, CT · 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 Oak Terrace Senior Housing of Jordan 16.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Parkview Manor 16.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Evergreen Village Supportive Living 16.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bickford of Marshalltown 16.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Controlled Air Inc 106 FTE
STATE-SIZE Massconn Distributors CPL, Inc 106 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dur-A-Flex 106 FTE
STATE-SIZE IDEX Health & Science 106 FTE
CITY-NEAR Branford Public Schools 577 FTE
CITY-NEAR Branford High School 244 FTE
CITY-NEAR CSC Enterprises, Incorporated d/b/a 221 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Connecticut Hospice 212 FTE
NAT-TCR Cafe Patachou (CP49) 16.4 TCR
NAT-TCR LP Graceville, LLC--North Florida 16.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Chase City Rivemont School 16.4 TCR
NAT-TCR HG629 16.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lubbock SNF Operations, LP 106 FTE
NAT-SIZE Berea Health and Rehab 106 FTE
NAT-SIZE WT 106 FTE
NAT-SIZE WTP 106 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2017, 2016. 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.