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

Merrill Gardens

Santa Maria, CA · ~145 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.6
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Merrill Gardens runs at 174% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Assisted-living facilities without on-site nursing care facilities workplace, earning a grade D.

Merrill Gardens: 6.6 TCR = 174% of Assisted-living facilities without on-site nursing care facilities BLS 3.8 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Merrill Gardens safety composite

Merrill Gardens scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 55% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 6.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% 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: 8.7 → 9.7 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 9.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.44× in 2023

Merrill Gardens's TCR rose 1.0 from 8.7 in 2019 to 9.7 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0.44× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 623312 · Santa Maria, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.6 · 174% of ind

  • DART 2.9 DART
  • RANK #179/635
  • PHOTO The Inn at Summit Tr…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 22 inj
  • SIZE ~145 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: The Inn at Summit Trail (0.0 TCR gap)

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Merrill Gardens in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Merrill Gardens averages 6.6 TCR (174% of the Assisted-living facilities without on-site nursing care facilities BLS benchmark).

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

Merrill Gardens TCR series: 2019=8.7 · 2021=7 · 2022=1 · 2023=9.7 · BLS 3.8

Where Merrill Gardens falls in its industry

6,510 Assisted-living facilities wit establishments

Safer than 55% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 7.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #179 safest of 635 Assisted-living facilities wit employers in California.

Merrill Gardens (145 employees, TCR 6.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 7.2 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 0100200300 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Merrill Gardens
Merrill Gardens (145 employees, TCR 6.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 7.2

Merrill Gardens has more employees than the Assisted-living facilities without on-si median and a lower 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
2023 9.7 2.9 5 5 0
2022 1.0 1.0 1 0 0
2021 7.0 7.0 7 0 0
2019 8.7 8.7 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

623312 · CA · Santa Maria

6,510 Assisted-living facilities without on-site nursing care facilities employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 280 employers in Santa Maria, 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 The Inn at Summit Trail 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pacific Grove Senior Living 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sarasota NJ TE LLC 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2248-63048 6.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE CADY - 02 145 FTE
STATE-SIZE R&T Farm Management, Inc. 145 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ocean Mist Farms - Castroville 145 FTE
STATE-SIZE SANTA ROSA OFFICES 145 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rancho Nuevo Harvesting, Inc. 2,290 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6403-64030364 2,110 FTE
CITY-NEAR 64030364-364001 MARIAN REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER 2,074 FTE
CITY-NEAR Marian Regional Medical Center 2,021 FTE
NAT-TCR Sarasota NJ TE LLC 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Argon Industries 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Libby Care Center of Cascadia 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Protective Packaging Solutions 6.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Veritiv Operating Company - TX366 145 FTE
NAT-SIZE CP Rebar & Installation,LLC 145 FTE
NAT-SIZE Colwell, Inc 145 FTE
NAT-SIZE QNT - Phoenix 145 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2019. 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.