Nursing homes · North Carolina

Life Care Center of Banner Elk

Banner Elk, NC · ~90 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
2.0
Avg TCR
6.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Life Care Center of Banner Elk runs at 31% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Nursing homes workplace, earning a grade A.

Life Care Center of Banner Elk: 2.0 TCR = 31% of Nursing homes BLS 6.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Life Care Center of Banner Elk safety composite

Life Care Center of Banner Elk scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 92% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

C

70/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 2 per 100 workers

Safer than 92% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% 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

Life Care Center of Banner Elk: 1.4 → 2.6 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 2.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.31× in 2023

Life Care Center of Banner Elk's TCR rose 1.2 from 1.4 in 2022 to 2.6 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.31× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 623110 · Banner Elk, NC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 2.0 · 31% of ind

  • DART 2.6 DART
  • RANK #44/510
  • PHOTO Trucare Living Cente…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~90 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Trucare Living Centers - Columbus (0.0 TCR gap)

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Life Care Center of Banner Elk in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Life Care Center of Banner Elk averages 2.0 TCR (31% of the Nursing homes BLS benchmark).

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

Life Care Center of Banner Elk TCR series: 2022=1.4 · 2023=2.6 · BLS 6.5

Where Life Care Center of Banner Elk falls in its industry

15,252 Nursing homes establishments

Safer than 92% 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 #44 safest of 510 Nursing homes employers in North Carolina.

Life Care Center of Banner Elk (90 employees, TCR 2.0) 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 Life Care Center of Banner Elk
Life Care Center of Banner Elk (90 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 106 employees and a TCR of 6.6

Life Care Center of Banner Elk has fewer employees than the Nursing homes median and a lower 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
2023 2.6 2.6 2 0 0
2022 1.4 1.4 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

623110 · NC · Banner Elk

15,252 Nursing homes employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 12 employers in Banner Elk, 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 Trucare Living Centers - Columbus 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR SMP Health - Ave Maria 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Casa Mora Rehabilitation and Extended Care 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR D18 BURLINGTON HLTH - REHAB CTR 2.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Allen Steam Station 90 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fayetteville Resource Center - PNG 90 FTE
STATE-SIZE D.R. Horton, Inc. - Raleigh 90 FTE
STATE-SIZE NJR Group Inc. 90 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1834 LOWE S OF BANNER ELK NC 118 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2807-1834 117 FTE
CITY-NEAR Consolidated Resources 108 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lowes Foods #158 95 FTE
NAT-TCR Rustoleum Brooklyn Park 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Creative Masonry, Inc. 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Dultmeier Sales-Omaha 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Lucky International Trading, Inc. 2.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Boyce Excavating, Inc. 90 FTE
NAT-SIZE Landmark of Bardstown 90 FTE
NAT-SIZE Green Acres Landscape, Inc 90 FTE
NAT-SIZE Silgan Containers Hoopeston 90 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: 2023, 2022. 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.