Nursing homes · Minnesota

Northern Pines Care Center

Aurora, MN · ~26 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
9.1
Avg TCR
6.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Northern Pines Care Center runs at 141% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Nursing homes workplace, earning a grade D.

Northern Pines Care Center: 9.1 TCR = 141% of Nursing homes BLS 6.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Northern Pines Care Center safety composite

Northern Pines Care Center scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 17%), 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).

F

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% 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

Northern Pines Care Center: 0.0 → 18.8 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 18.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.03× in 2024

Northern Pines Care Center's TCR rose 18.8 from 0.0 in 2020 to 18.8 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.03× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 623110 · Aurora, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 9.1 · 141% of ind

  • DART 9.4 DART
  • RANK #251/430
  • PHOTO The Pearl of Evanston
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~26 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: The Pearl of Evanston (0.0 TCR gap)

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Northern Pines Care Center in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Northern Pines Care Center averages 9.1 TCR (141% of the Nursing homes BLS benchmark).

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

Northern Pines Care Center TCR series: 2020=0 · 2021=4.5 · 2022=17.4 · 2023=4.9 · 2024=18.8 · BLS 6.5

Where Northern Pines Care Center falls in its industry

15,252 Nursing homes establishments

Safer than 32% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #251 safest of 430 Nursing homes employers in Minnesota.

Northern Pines Care Center (26 employees, TCR 9.1) 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 Northern Pines Care Center
Northern Pines Care Center (26 employees, TCR 9.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 106 employees and a TCR of 6.6

Northern Pines Care Center 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
2024 18.8 9.4 2 2 0
2023 4.9 0.0 0 1 0
2022 17.4 17.4 2 2 0
2021 4.5 4.5 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

623110 · MN · Aurora

15,252 Nursing homes employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 9 employers in Aurora, 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 The Pearl of Evanston 9.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Forestville Healthcare Center 9.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Brookside Nursing Center 9.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Woodlands Health & Rehab Center 9.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Becker 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Silverstreak Dairy LLC, Silverstreak Dairy 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Schwartz Farms Huiras MN 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Golden Egg 26 FTE
CITY-NEAR Northern Pines Medical Center 96 FTE
CITY-NEAR Elementary School 74 FTE
CITY-NEAR High School 47 FTE
CITY-NEAR Aurora Carefree Living 40 FTE
NAT-TCR Excel Landscape Inc 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Sharon Hospital 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Davenport Imperial 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Nu-Cast, Inc 9.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE NFI Interactive Logistics LLC-58 PICKETT DISTRICT ROAD 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE NFI Interactive Logistics LLC-510 S. Enterprise Blvd. 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE EML 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE National Distribution Centers LLC-15970 Mountain Ave 26 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, 2022, 2021, 2020. 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.