Skilled nursing facilities · Michigan

Heartland Health Care Center - Sterling Heights

Sterling Heights, MI · ~240 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
7.8
Avg TCR
6.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Heartland Health Care Center - Sterling Heights runs at 119% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Skilled nursing facilities workplace, earning a grade C.

Heartland Health Care Center - Sterling Heights: 7.8 TCR = 119% of Skilled nursing facilities BLS 6.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Heartland Health Care Center - Sterling Heights safety composite

Heartland Health Care Center - Sterling Heights scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 32%), 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).

D

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 7.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% 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

Heartland Health Care Center - Sterling Heights: 7.6 → 9.3 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 9.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.72× in 2018

Heartland Health Care Center - Sterling Heights's TCR rose 1.7 from 7.6 in 2016 to 9.3 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.72× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 623110 · Sterling Heights, MI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 7.8 · 119% of ind

  • DART 5.6 DART
  • RANK #242/471
  • PHOTO Greenfield Care Cent…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 45 inj
  • SIZE ~240 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Greenfield Care Center of South Gate (0.0 TCR gap)

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Heartland Health Care Center - Sterling Heights in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Heartland Health Care Center - Sterling Heights averages 7.8 TCR (119% of the Skilled nursing facilities BLS benchmark).

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

Heartland Health Care Center - Sterling Heights TCR series: 2016=7.6 · 2017=6.3 · 2018=9.3 · BLS 6.5

Where Heartland Health Care Center - Sterling Heights falls in its industry

15,252 Skilled nursing facilities establishments

Safer than 41% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #242 safest of 471 Skilled nursing facilities employers in Michigan.

Heartland Health Care Center - Sterling Heights (240 employees, TCR 7.8) 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 Heartland Health Care Center - Sterling Heights
Heartland Health Care Center - Sterling Heights (240 employees, TCR 7.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 106 employees and a TCR of 6.6

Heartland Health Care Center - Sterling Heights 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
2018 9.3 5.6 20 0 0
2017 6.3 3.2 12 0 0
2016 7.6 6.4 13 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

623110 · MI · Sterling Heights

15,252 Skilled nursing facilities employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 195 employers in Sterling Heights, MI · 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 Greenfield Care Center of South Gate 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fireside House 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gateway Health and Rehab 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Canyon Rim Nursing & Rehab LLC 7.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Summit Polymers Inc, P01 240 FTE
STATE-SIZE Magna Electric Vehicle Structures - Michigan 240 FTE
STATE-SIZE Flex-N-Gate Battle Creek, LLC 240 FTE
STATE-SIZE Meijer Inc. 240 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sterling Heights Assembly Plant 5,783 FTE
CITY-NEAR STERLING PLNT 2,319 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sterling Stamping Plant 2,115 FTE
CITY-NEAR Conti, LLC 1,892 FTE
NAT-TCR Rchc Ga-Columbus Companion 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Legends - Circle Line Cruises 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 52611 Chandler DC - HSS 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Union City (Whipple Road) 7.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Frederick (Mdfre) 240 FTE
NAT-SIZE League City (Txlci) 240 FTE
NAT-SIZE GEHC : Westborough MA, LS 240 FTE
NAT-SIZE PB Bell Asset Management, Inc. 240 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: 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.