Nursing homes · Alabama

Merry Wood Lodge

Elmore, AL · ~75 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
9.0
Avg TCR
6.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Merry Wood Lodge runs at 139% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Nursing homes workplace, earning a grade D.

Merry Wood Lodge: 9.0 TCR = 139% of Nursing homes BLS 6.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Merry Wood Lodge safety composite

Merry Wood Lodge scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 28%), 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

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% 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

Merry Wood Lodge: 9.0 → 50.1 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 50.1 TCR · DART/TCR 5.41× in 2020

Merry Wood Lodge's TCR rose 41.1 from 9.0 in 2019 to 50.1 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 5.41× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 623110 · Elmore, AL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 9.0 · 139% of ind

  • DART 48.8 DART
  • RANK #172/269
  • PHOTO Memorial Hermann Uni…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~75 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Memorial Hermann University Place Nursing Center (0.0 TCR gap)

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Merry Wood Lodge in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Merry Wood Lodge averages 9.0 TCR (139% of the Nursing homes BLS benchmark).

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

Merry Wood Lodge TCR series: 2019=9 · 2020=50.1 · BLS 6.5

Where Merry Wood Lodge falls in its industry

15,252 Nursing homes establishments

Safer than 33% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alabama alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #172 safest of 269 Nursing homes employers in Alabama.

Merry Wood Lodge (75 employees, TCR 9.0) 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 Merry Wood Lodge
Merry Wood Lodge (75 employees, TCR 9.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 106 employees and a TCR of 6.6

Merry Wood Lodge has fewer employees than the Nursing homes 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
2020 50.1 48.8 6 31 0
2019 9.0 6.4 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

623110 · AL · Elmore

15,252 Nursing homes employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 5 employers in Elmore, AL · 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 Memorial Hermann University Place Nursing Center 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Falls Village Skilled Nursing & Rehabilitation 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR OREGON VETERANS HOME 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Saint Therese of New Hope 9.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Worley Field Services at Sabic Burkville 75 FTE
STATE-SIZE Turner at Ascend Performance Materials Decatur AL 75 FTE
STATE-SIZE In & Out Welders Incorporated 75 FTE
STATE-SIZE BT Pelham 75 FTE
CITY-NEAR Merrywood Lodge 87 FTE
CITY-NEAR A49 MERRY WOOD LODGE CENTER 78 FTE
CITY-NEAR 9288-A49 67 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cornerstone - ADOC Specialized Men's Prison 34 FTE
NAT-TCR Concrete Industries, Inc. 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Gardnerville Health & Rehabilitation 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR City of Harvard 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Mannington Covington DC 9.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Kia-Emcaz-Kia Bell Rd 75 FTE
NAT-SIZE El Mezquite Market Enterprises, LLC 75 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ursuline Center of Toledo 75 FTE
NAT-SIZE Michigan Cat Kalkaska 75 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: 2020, 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.