Assisted Living · Minnesota

New Perspective - Columbia Heights

Columbia Heights, MN · ~90 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.3
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

New Perspective - Columbia Heights runs at 141% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Assisted Living workplace, earning a grade D.

New Perspective - Columbia Heights: 5.3 TCR = 141% of Assisted Living BLS 3.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

New Perspective - Columbia Heights safety composite

New Perspective - Columbia Heights scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 65% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 48%), 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).

C

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 5.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% 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%).

New Perspective - Columbia Heights held a steady TCR band

New Perspective - Columbia Heights's TCR held near 0.1 from 5.4 in 2017 to 5.3 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 5.4 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.66× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=5.4 · 2018=5.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 623312 · Columbia Heights, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.3 · 141% of ind

  • DART 3.5 DART
  • RANK #87/240
  • PHOTO Ivy Park at Playa Vi…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~90 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ivy Park at Playa Vista (0.0 TCR gap)

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New Perspective - Columbia Heights in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows New Perspective - Columbia Heights averages 5.3 TCR (141% of the Assisted Living BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-09-26

New Perspective - Columbia Heights TCR series: 2017=5.4 · 2018=5.3 · BLS 3.8

Where New Perspective - Columbia Heights falls in its industry

6,510 Assisted Living establishments

Safer than 65% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 7.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #87 safest of 240 Assisted Living employers in Minnesota.

New Perspective - Columbia Heights (90 employees, TCR 5.3) 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 New Perspective - Columbia Heights
New Perspective - Columbia Heights (90 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 7.2

New Perspective - Columbia Heights has more employees than the Assisted Living 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
2018 5.3 3.5 3 0 0
2017 5.4 5.4 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

623312 · MN · Columbia Heights

6,510 Assisted Living employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 27 employers in Columbia Heights, MN · 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 Ivy Park at Playa Vista 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR EMS - Sanctuary West St. Paul 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR AL50-550-HMSTD AT BOULDER CITY 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Brandywine Living at Senior Suites 5.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Yorkshire of Edina 90 FTE
STATE-SIZE Oak View Elementary School 90 FTE
STATE-SIZE West PRTF 90 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Lutheran Home: Hope Residence 90 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sullivan Lake 909 FTE
CITY-NEAR Columbia Heights Public Schools ISD#13 448 FTE
CITY-NEAR Columbia Heights ISD #13 442 FTE
CITY-NEAR Crest View Corporation 270 FTE
NAT-TCR FRS 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Greeley Car Care 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Vulcan GMS 1400 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Atlanta/Suwanee ATL 5.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Procoaters, Inc. 90 FTE
NAT-SIZE MGI 90 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hampton House 90 FTE
NAT-SIZE DCI Donor Services Tissue Bank 90 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: 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.