Skilled nursing facilities · Iowa

Northgate Care Center

Waukon, IA · ~93 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
6.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Northgate Care Center runs at 37% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Skilled nursing facilities workplace, earning a grade A.

Northgate Care Center: 2.4 TCR = 37% of Skilled nursing facilities BLS 6.5 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Northgate Care Center safety composite

Northgate Care Center scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 89% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

71/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 89% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 66% 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

Northgate Care Center: 0.0 → 2.1 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 5.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.87× in 2023

Northgate Care Center's TCR rose 2.1 from 0.0 in 2016 to 2.1 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2018 at 5.4 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.87× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 623110 · Waukon, IA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 2.4 · 37% of ind

  • DART 2.1 DART
  • RANK #27/396
  • PHOTO Fenton Healthcare
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~93 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Fenton Healthcare (0.0 TCR gap)

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Northgate Care Center in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Northgate Care Center averages 2.4 TCR (37% of the Skilled nursing facilities BLS benchmark).

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

Northgate Care Center TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=1.8 · 2018=5.4 · 2019=1.9 · 2020=2 · 2021=4 · 2022=2.1 · 2023=2.1 · BLS 6.5

Where Northgate Care Center falls in its industry

15,252 Skilled nursing facilities establishments

Safer than 89% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #27 safest of 396 Skilled nursing facilities employers in Iowa.

Northgate Care Center (93 employees, TCR 2.4) 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 Northgate Care Center
Northgate Care Center (93 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 106 employees and a TCR of 6.6

Northgate Care Center has fewer employees than the Skilled nursing facilities median and a lower 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
2023 2.1 2.1 1 0 0
2022 2.1 2.1 1 0 0
2021 4.0 2.0 2 0 0
2020 2.0 2.0 1 0 0
2019 1.9 1.9 1 0 0
2018 5.4 1.8 2 1 0
2017 1.8 1.8 1 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

623110 · IA · Waukon

15,252 Skilled nursing facilities employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 19 employers in Waukon, IA · 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 Fenton Healthcare 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR WELLINGTON HEALTH & REHAB, LLC 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR GREENS AT HENDERSONVILLE LLC 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rolla Grand LLC dba Cedar Pointe 2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Corp 93 FTE
STATE-SIZE Manchester 93 FTE
STATE-SIZE Centerville General Office 93 FTE
STATE-SIZE Godbersen Smith Const. Co 93 FTE
CITY-NEAR Veterans Memorial Hospital 235 FTE
CITY-NEAR Reel Core Inc. 81 FTE
CITY-NEAR FAREWAY STORES, INC. 062 WAUKON 66 FTE
CITY-NEAR Aveka Nutra Processing 44 FTE
NAT-TCR Albertville Primary School 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Smithfield Inc. 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Boston 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Quikrete - Lax 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Food City 103 93 FTE
NAT-SIZE AJs 064 93 FTE
NAT-SIZE Warner's Outdoor Solutions, Inc. 93 FTE
NAT-SIZE ML Austin 93 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.