Skilled nursing facilities · Florida

Highlands Lake Center

Lakeland, FL · ~289 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
9.3
Avg TCR
6.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Highlands Lake Center runs at 143% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Skilled nursing facilities workplace, earning a grade D.

Highlands Lake Center: 9.3 TCR = 143% of Skilled nursing facilities BLS 6.5 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Highlands Lake Center safety composite

Highlands Lake Center 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

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% of industry peers

DART rate
F 26.11 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

Highlands Lake Center: 2.1 → 26.1 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 26.1 TCR · DART/TCR 2.8× in 2024

Highlands Lake Center's TCR rose 24.0 from 2.1 in 2016 to 26.1 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2.8× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 623110 · Lakeland, FL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 9.3 · 143% of ind

  • DART 26.1 DART
  • RANK #679/809
  • PHOTO PAL Wenatchee LLC
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 56 inj
  • SIZE ~289 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: PAL Wenatchee LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Highlands Lake Center in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Highlands Lake Center averages 9.3 TCR (143% of the Skilled nursing facilities BLS benchmark).

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

Highlands Lake Center TCR series: 2016=2.1 · 2017=3.5 · 2018=3.8 · 2019=3.9 · 2020=23.4 · 2023=2.3 · 2024=26.1 · BLS 6.5

Where Highlands Lake Center falls in its industry

15,252 Skilled nursing facilities establishments

Safer than 31% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Florida alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #679 safest of 809 Skilled nursing facilities employers in Florida.

Highlands Lake Center (289 employees, TCR 9.3) 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 Highlands Lake Center
Highlands Lake Center (289 employees, TCR 9.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 106 employees and a TCR of 6.6

Highlands Lake 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
2024 26.1 26.1 14 0 0
2023 2.3 2.3 3 0 0
2020 23.4 21.8 3 25 0
2019 3.9 2.1 11 0 0
2018 3.8 3.8 11 0 0
2017 3.5 2.1 10 0 0
2016 2.1 1.1 4 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

623110 · FL · Lakeland

15,252 Skilled nursing facilities employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 26,569 rated employers in Florida with headcount on file · 426 employers in Lakeland, FL · 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 PAL Wenatchee LLC 9.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bay Crest Care Center 9.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Clinton Healthcare Center 9.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Prairie Rose 9.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE WM 3307 289 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4795-AA-MIA-MIAMI-MIA-CRGO 289 FTE
STATE-SIZE GTI 289 FTE
STATE-SIZE Abeka Book, Inc. 289 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lakeland Regional Medical Center 5,518 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lakeland Distribution 2,927 FTE
CITY-NEAR Clinic 1,651 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - KLAL 1,210 FTE
NAT-TCR Bay Crest Care Center 9.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Jackson Tumble Finish 9.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Detroit Tubing Mill - Hubbell 9.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 610-Asm-Asm - Sterling 9.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE US Foods Cincinnati 289 FTE
NAT-SIZE Asplundh Tree Expert, LLC - 037 289 FTE
NAT-SIZE We Love Berries LLC 289 FTE
NAT-SIZE 9998 Coborn's Support Center 289 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, 2023, 2020, 2019, 2018, 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.