Nursing homes · Connecticut

Gardner Heights Health Care Centerapple Rehab

Shelton, CT · ~120 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
16.3
Avg TCR
6.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Gardner Heights Health Care Centerapple Rehab runs at 251% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Nursing homes workplace, earning a grade F.

Gardner Heights Health Care Centerapple Rehab: 16.3 TCR = 251% of Nursing homes BLS 6.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Gardner Heights Health Care Centerapple Rehab safety composite

Gardner Heights Health Care Centerapple Rehab 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 16.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers

DART rate
F 25 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

Gardner Heights Health Care Centerapple Rehab: 6.5 → 26.1 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 26.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.53× in 2020

Gardner Heights Health Care Centerapple Rehab's TCR rose 19.6 from 6.5 in 2019 to 26.1 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 1.53× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 623110 · Shelton, CT ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 16.3 · 251% of ind

  • DART 25.0 DART
  • RANK #213/258
  • PHOTO Tuscany Gardens
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~120 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Tuscany Gardens (0.0 TCR gap)

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Gardner Heights Health Care Centerapple Rehab in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Gardner Heights Health Care Centerapple Rehab averages 16.3 TCR (251% of the Nursing homes BLS benchmark).

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

Gardner Heights Health Care Centerapple Rehab TCR series: 2019=6.5 · 2020=26.1 · BLS 6.5

Where Gardner Heights Health Care Centerapple Rehab falls in its industry

15,252 Nursing homes establishments

Safer than 9% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Connecticut alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #213 safest of 258 Nursing homes employers in Connecticut.

Gardner Heights Health Care Centerapple Rehab (120 employees, TCR 16.3) 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 Gardner Heights Health Care Centerapple Rehab
Gardner Heights Health Care Centerapple Rehab (120 employees, TCR 16.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 106 employees and a TCR of 6.6

Gardner Heights Health Care Centerapple Rehab has more 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
2020 26.1 25.0 5 18 0
2019 6.5 4.3 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

623110 · CT · Shelton

15,252 Nursing homes employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,008 rated employers in Connecticut with headcount on file · 111 employers in Shelton, 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 Tuscany Gardens 16.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Azalea Health and Rehab Center 16.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Balfour Retirement Community 16.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cambridge Operator LLC 16.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Town of Hamden - Public Works 120 FTE
STATE-SIZE Partitions, Inc. 120 FTE
STATE-SIZE ITW Drawform Waterbury 120 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sennheiser Electronic Corp 120 FTE
CITY-NEAR AffinEco, LLC 1,740 FTE
CITY-NEAR SMG 1,487 FTE
CITY-NEAR SSC, Inc. 820 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lockheed Martin Corporation US CT Shelton Far Mill Crossng (5223) 655 FTE
NAT-TCR Spee-Dee Delivery Service, Inc. - Mason City 16.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 116810-Opa Locka Po 16.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 6962-SWY-0029-0029-02678 16.3 TCR
NAT-TCR BUF - Buffalo Dist Center 16.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE 0990 Corporate 120 FTE
NAT-SIZE DGS Aviation Services : DAL - Dallas 120 FTE
NAT-SIZE DGS Aviation Services : MCI - Kansas City 120 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brookdale Prospect Heights 120 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: 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.