Home care of elderly, medical · Illinois

LifeCare@HOME

Chicago, IL · ~103 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
2.5
Avg TCR
5.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

LifeCare@HOME runs at 48% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Home care of elderly, medical workplace, earning a grade A.

LifeCare@HOME: 2.5 TCR = 48% of Home care of elderly, medical BLS 5.2 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

LifeCare@HOME safety composite

LifeCare@HOME scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 74% 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).

D

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

LifeCare@HOME: 1.5 → 4.7 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 4.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.88× in 2024

LifeCare@HOME's TCR rose 3.1 from 1.5 in 2018 to 4.7 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.88× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 621610 · Chicago, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 2.5 · 48% of ind

  • DART 4.7 DART
  • RANK #17/60
  • PHOTO Gentle Shepherd Hosp…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~103 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Gentle Shepherd Hospice, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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LifeCare@HOME in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows LifeCare@HOME averages 2.5 TCR (48% of the Home care of elderly, medical BLS benchmark).

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

LifeCare@HOME TCR series: 2018=1.5 · 2019=3.6 · 2021=0 · 2022=2.2 · 2023=2.9 · 2024=4.7 · BLS 5.2

Where LifeCare@HOME falls in its industry

3,635 Home care of elderly, medical establishments

Safer than 74% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #17 safest of 60 Home care of elderly, medical employers in Illinois.

LifeCare@HOME (103 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate LifeCare@HOME
LifeCare@HOME (103 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 4.4

LifeCare@HOME has more employees than the Home care of elderly, medical median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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 4.7 4.7 2 1 0
2023 2.9 2.9 2 0 0
2022 2.2 2.2 2 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 1 0 0
2019 3.6 3.6 2 0 0
2018 1.5 1.5 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

621610 · IL · Chicago

3,635 Home care of elderly, medical employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 2,934 employers in Chicago, IL · 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 Gentle Shepherd Hospice, Inc. 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Compassus Auburn Bethany 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR West Bridgewater Medical Investors Limited Partnership d/b/d Life Care Center of West Bridgewater 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 0131 - NYC 2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Maywood Tech Center 103 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bellwood Reporting Center 103 FTE
STATE-SIZE Allied Power Services - Exelon, Braidwood Station 103 FTE
STATE-SIZE Western Utility LLC 103 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chicago Public Schools 49,500 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chicago/Corporate 18,831 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Illinois at Chicago 13,092 FTE
CITY-NEAR University Health Service UIC UIC Campus 12,732 FTE
NAT-TCR CBI General Contractors, Inc. 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Struktol Company of America (1) 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Alliance Beverage Distributing 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Lenox Tools- Irwin Industrial Tool Company 2.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE JM Murray - Route 13 103 FTE
NAT-SIZE ESI 103 FTE
NAT-SIZE Police Department 103 FTE
NAT-SIZE Timberland High School 103 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, 2022, 2021, 2019, 2018. 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.