Hospices, inpatient care · Illinois

Merit Hospice Services LLC

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Lombard, IL · ~26 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · September 26, 2026

C
Average Safety Record: 5.5
Avg TCR: 6.5
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Merit Hospice Services LLC runs at 85% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Hospices, inpatient care workplace, earning a grade C.

Merit Hospice Services LLC: 5.5 TCR = 85% of Hospices, inpatient care BLS 6.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Merit Hospice Services LLC safety composite

Merit Hospice Services LLC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 60% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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).

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 5.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% of industry peers
DART rate: D 3.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% 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

Merit Hospice Services LLC: 4.4 → 6.7 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 6.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.6× in 2021

Merit Hospice Services LLC's TCR rose 2.3 from 4.4 in 2020 to 6.7 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 0.6× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 623110 · Lombard, IL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 5.5 · 85% of ind

DART 3.3 DART
RANK #347/857
PHOTO Bishop Wicke Health …
BOOK 2y book
INJ 3 inj
SIZE ~26 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bishop Wicke Health and Rehabilitation Center (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Merit Hospice Services LLC averages 5.5 TCR (85% of the Hospices, inpatient care BLS benchmark).

Merit Hospice Services LLC TCR series: 2020=4.4 · 2021=6.7 · BLS 6.5

Where Merit Hospice Services LLC falls in its industry

15,252 Hospices, inpatient care establishments

Safer than 60% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.6.

Grade C

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #347 safest of 857 Hospices, inpatient care employers in Illinois.

Merit Hospice Services LLC (26 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 106 employees and a TCR of 6.6

Merit Hospice Services LLC has fewer employees than the Hospices, inpatient care 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
2021	6.7	3.3	2	0	0
2020	4.4	0.0	1	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

623110 · IL · Lombard

15,252 Hospices, inpatient care employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 133 employers in Lombard, IL · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Bishop Wicke Health and Rehabilitation Center	SHELTON, CT	5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Parkview Rehabilitation Center	WINTER PARK, FL	5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Lake Eustis Health and Rehabilitation Center	EUSTIS, FL	5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Eastside Health and Rehab Center	PITTSFIELD, IL	5.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE	ILRLN - ROCK ISLAND	ROCK ISLAND	26 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Sterling Rail	STERLING	26 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Lincoln	CHICAGO HEIGHTS	26 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Transcare	HARRISBURG	26 FTE
CITY-NEAR	XLT Management Services, Inc.	Lombard	6,590 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Program Productions, LLC	Lombard	5,622 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Power Wellness Management	Lombard	1,430 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Lombard Park District	Lombard	342 FTE
NAT-TCR	Seville Bronze	Seville, OH	5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Tasca Automotive Group Rt 6 Two Inc	Johnston, RI	5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Lumber and Building Materials	Fremont, NE	5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Lake Eustis Health and Rehabilitation Center	Eustis, FL	5.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Allwine Roofing and Construction	Tulsa, OK	26 FTE
NAT-SIZE	BHE - Castle Rock (CO001)	Castle Rock, CO	26 FTE
NAT-SIZE	49 Svn	San Francisco, CA	26 FTE
NAT-SIZE	000095-New Holland Pa	New Holland, PA	26 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. 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.