Assisted-living facilities without on-site nursing care facilities · Washington

Merrill Gardens at Ballard LLC

Name: Merrill Gardens at Ballard LLC Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Seattle, WA · ~59 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

F
Failing Safety Record: 10.7
Avg TCR: 3.8
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Merrill Gardens at Ballard LLC runs at 282% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Assisted-living facilities without on-site nursing care facilities workplace, earning a grade F.

Merrill Gardens at Ballard LLC: 10.7 TCR = 282% of Assisted-living facilities without on-site nursing care facilities BLS 3.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Merrill Gardens at Ballard LLC safety composite

Merrill Gardens at Ballard LLC scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 84% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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).

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 10.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% of industry peers
DART rate: B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% 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

Merrill Gardens at Ballard LLC: 8.0 → 13.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 13.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Merrill Gardens at Ballard LLC's TCR rose 5.5 from 8.0 in 2023 to 13.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 623312 · Seattle, WA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.7 · 282% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #128/216
PHOTO Jubilee House on War…
BOOK 2y book
INJ 9 inj
SIZE ~59 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Jubilee House on Warfield (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Merrill Gardens at Ballard LLC averages 10.7 TCR (282% of the Assisted-living facilities without on-site nursing care facilities BLS benchmark).

Merrill Gardens at Ballard LLC TCR series: 2023=8 · 2024=13.4 · BLS 3.8

Where Merrill Gardens at Ballard LLC falls in its industry

6,510 Assisted-living facilities wit establishments

Safer than 27% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 7.2.

Grade F

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Washington alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #128 safest of 216 Assisted-living facilities wit employers in Washington.

Merrill Gardens at Ballard LLC (59 employees, TCR 10.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 7.2

Merrill Gardens at Ballard LLC has more employees than the Assisted-living facilities without on-si median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 7.2. 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	13.4	0.0	6	0	0
2023	8.0	2.7	3	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

623312 · WA · Seattle

6,510 Assisted-living facilities without on-site nursing care facilities employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,147 rated employers in Washington with headcount on file · 1,279 employers in Seattle, WA · 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	Jubilee House on Warfield	CLARKSVILLE, TN	10.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Avamere Health Services, LLC	SANDY, OR	10.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	ME CA, LP	FULLERTON, CA	10.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	The Terrace at Beverly Lake A Memory Care Residence	EVERETT, WA	10.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE	John I. Haas, Inc. - Warehouse Division	YAKIMA	59 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Nationwide Solar	VANCOUVER	59 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Precision Concrete LLC	STANWOOD	59 FTE
STATE-SIZE	CHG Building Systems, Inc.	SEATTLE	59 FTE
CITY-NEAR	UW Seattle	Seattle	32,378 FTE
CITY-NEAR	The United States of America	Seattle	25,000 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Starz Entertainment	Seattle	25,000 FTE
CITY-NEAR	UW Medical Center - Montlake and NW	Seattle	11,307 FTE
NAT-TCR	Pauni - Uniontown	Smock, PA	10.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Giant Food Stores 6471	Pottstown, PA	10.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	15 Maple St East Haven, Ct 06512	East Haven, CT	10.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	North Las Vegas Airport	Las Vegas, NV	10.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Fay Industries	Strongsville, OH	59 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Unilock New York, Inc. Boston Division	Uxbridge, MA	59 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Production Automation Inc.	Montgomery, AL	59 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Central Plumbing Specialties LLC - Yonkers	Yonkers, NY	59 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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