Nursing homes · Florida

Life Care Center of Estero

Estero, FL · ~225 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
11.3
Avg TCR
6.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Life Care Center of Estero runs at 174% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Nursing homes workplace, earning a grade D.

Life Care Center of Estero: 11.3 TCR = 174% of Nursing homes BLS 6.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Life Care Center of Estero safety composite

Life Care Center of Estero scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 60% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 22%), 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

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% 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 Estero: 3.0 → 10.1 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 42.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.22× in 2021

Life Care Center of Estero's TCR rose 7.1 from 3.0 in 2016 to 10.1 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 42.7 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.22× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 11.3 · 174% of ind

  • DART 2.5 DART
  • RANK #738/809
  • PHOTO Regency Albany
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 53 inj
  • SIZE ~225 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Regency Albany (0.0 TCR gap)

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Life Care Center of Estero in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Life Care Center of Estero averages 11.3 TCR (174% 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 Estero TCR series: 2016=3 · 2017=4.8 · 2018=6.2 · 2019=1.2 · 2020=42.7 · 2021=10.1 · BLS 6.5

Where Life Care Center of Estero falls in its industry

15,252 Nursing homes establishments

Safer than 22% 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 #738 safest of 809 Nursing homes employers in Florida.

Life Care Center of Estero (225 employees, TCR 11.3) 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 Life Care Center of Estero
Life Care Center of Estero (225 employees, TCR 11.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 106 employees and a TCR of 6.6

Life Care Center of Estero 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
2021 10.1 2.5 16 0 0
2020 42.7 35.2 11 57 0
2019 1.2 0.6 2 0 0
2018 6.2 5.6 11 0 0
2017 4.8 3.0 8 0 0
2016 3.0 2.4 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

623110 · FL · Estero

15,252 Nursing homes employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 26,569 rated employers in Florida with headcount on file · 35 employers in Estero, 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 Regency Albany 11.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lewis Memorial Christian Village 11.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Reservoir Ctr for Health and Rehab 11.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Avante at Waynesboro 11.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hardee Farm 225 FTE
STATE-SIZE Leo's Concrete Specialties,Inc 225 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kraft Heinz Company 225 FTE
STATE-SIZE Danfoss- Turbocor 225 FTE
CITY-NEAR HERTZ ARENA 863 FTE
CITY-NEAR 5347 339 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 5347 325 FTE
CITY-NEAR Shadow Wood Country Club, Inc. 223 FTE
NAT-TCR 1206 PYP Jessup 11.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Yacht Club Trailers 11.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Outpatient Surgery Center 11.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Integrico Composites of Louisiana 11.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Seaboard Foods 225 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lavender, Inc. 225 FTE
NAT-SIZE Renaissance Ross Bridge Golf Resort and Spa 225 FTE
NAT-SIZE INEOS Pigments USA Inc. Plant 2 225 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: 2021, 2020, 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.