Skilled nursing facilities · North Carolina

Grace Nursing Center

Morganton, NC · ~122 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
9.5
Avg TCR
6.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Grace Nursing Center runs at 147% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Skilled nursing facilities workplace, earning a grade D.

Grace Nursing Center: 9.5 TCR = 147% of Skilled nursing facilities BLS 6.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Grace Nursing Center safety composite

Grace Nursing Center scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 27%), 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

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% 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

Grace Nursing Center: 9.5 → 13.3 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 13.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.7× in 2019

Grace Nursing Center's TCR rose 3.8 from 9.5 in 2016 to 13.3 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0.7× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 623110 · Morganton, NC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 9.5 · 147% of ind

  • DART 6.7 DART
  • RANK #368/510
  • PHOTO Pomona Healthcare an…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 29 inj
  • SIZE ~122 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Pomona Healthcare and Wellness Ctr LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Grace Nursing Center in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Grace Nursing Center averages 9.5 TCR (147% of the Skilled nursing facilities BLS benchmark).

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

Grace Nursing Center TCR series: 2016=9.5 · 2017=9.1 · 2018=6.3 · 2019=13.3 · BLS 6.5

Where Grace Nursing Center falls in its industry

15,252 Skilled nursing facilities establishments

Safer than 30% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #368 safest of 510 Skilled nursing facilities employers in North Carolina.

Grace Nursing Center (122 employees, TCR 9.5) 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 Grace Nursing Center
Grace Nursing Center (122 employees, TCR 9.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 106 employees and a TCR of 6.6

Grace Nursing Center has more employees than the Skilled nursing facilities 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
2019 13.3 6.7 6 0 0
2018 6.3 4.2 5 1 0
2017 9.1 5.0 9 0 0
2016 9.5 9.5 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

623110 · NC · Morganton

15,252 Skilled nursing facilities employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 106 employers in Morganton, 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 Pomona Healthcare and Wellness Ctr LLC 9.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Grace Heights Health & Rehabilitation 9.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gencare Inc - Renton 9.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Providence Living Center 9.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Operations 122 FTE
STATE-SIZE City of Concord Water Services 122 FTE
STATE-SIZE Utili-Serve LLC 122 FTE
STATE-SIZE Granite Contracting LLC 122 FTE
CITY-NEAR DEX-BLUE RIDGE HOSPITAL 3,263 FTE
CITY-NEAR Blue Ridge HealthCare Hospitals, Inc. 1,461 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0090-BRHC Hospitals 1,460 FTE
CITY-NEAR Broughton Hospital 1,198 FTE
NAT-TCR 17CC and 1799 9.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Cedar Crest, Inc. 9.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Cosmos Corporation 9.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Cranberry Pa 9.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE MI 1401 E Miller Rd 122 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1500 Market Street - PAP02 122 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4054-Abs 0016 0460 122 FTE
NAT-SIZE 5472-Swy 0035 1731 122 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: 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.