Homes for the elderly with nursing care · California

Merrill Gardens at Monterey

Monterey, CA · ~100 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
16.6
Avg TCR
6.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Merrill Gardens at Monterey runs at 256% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Homes for the elderly with nursing care workplace, earning a grade F.

Merrill Gardens at Monterey: 16.6 TCR = 256% of Homes for the elderly with nursing care BLS 6.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Merrill Gardens at Monterey safety composite

Merrill Gardens at Monterey scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 67% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 9%), 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

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 16.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.3

2023→2024

Merrill Gardens at Monterey injury rate improved

Merrill Gardens at Monterey's TCR fell 2.3 from 17.8 in 2023 to 15.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 17.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.12× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=17.8 · 2024=15.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 623110 · Monterey, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 16.6 · 256% of ind

  • DART 1.9 DART
  • RANK #667/739
  • PHOTO Otterbein Loveland
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~100 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Otterbein Loveland (0.0 TCR gap)

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Merrill Gardens at Monterey in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Merrill Gardens at Monterey averages 16.6 TCR (256% of the Homes for the elderly with nursing care BLS benchmark).

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

Merrill Gardens at Monterey TCR series: 2023=17.8 · 2024=15.5 · BLS 6.5

Where Merrill Gardens at Monterey falls in its industry

15,252 Homes for the elderly with nur establishments

Safer than 9% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #667 safest of 739 Homes for the elderly with nur employers in California.

Merrill Gardens at Monterey (100 employees, TCR 16.6) 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 Merrill Gardens at Monterey
Merrill Gardens at Monterey (100 employees, TCR 16.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 106 employees and a TCR of 6.6

Merrill Gardens at Monterey has fewer employees than the Homes for the elderly with nursing care 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
2024 15.5 1.9 8 0 0
2023 17.8 15.8 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

623110 · CA · Monterey

15,252 Homes for the elderly with nursing care employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 68 employers in Monterey, CA · 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 Otterbein Loveland 16.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Victoria Manor 16.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR LEGACY NURSING AND REHABILITATION OF PORT ALLEN 16.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR NSH Soldiers Grove Health Services 16.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE 4Seasons Farms, LLC 100 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bud of California Cauliflower 100 FTE
STATE-SIZE Legacy Growers, LLC. 100 FTE
STATE-SIZE DE CRUZ FLC 100 FTE
CITY-NEAR Monterey Bay Aquarium 1,686 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 143 764 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 163 661 FTE
CITY-NEAR SOUTHERN REGION : BEU 376 FTE
NAT-TCR Minneapolis Kitchen 16.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Mulcahy Nickolaus 16.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Pleasant Valley Homes, Inc. 16.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Otterbein Loveland 16.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Plastic Ingenuity - Oxford,NC 100 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jay Dee Contractors, Inc. 100 FTE
NAT-SIZE Motor Lodge Associates of Madison LLC 100 FTE
NAT-SIZE Impress Designs INC. 100 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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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.