Convalescent homes or convalescent hospitals (except psychiatric) · Montana
Northwest Horizons/Brendan House
Kalispell, MT · ~175 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.
- F
- Failing Safety Record
- 14.8
- Avg TCR
- 6.5
- Industry avg
- 0
- Fatalities
The verdict
Northwest Horizons/Brendan House runs at 228% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Convalescent homes or convalescent hospitals (except psychiatric) workplace, earning a grade F.
- F
- Failing Safety Record
- 14.8
- avg TCR · per 100 workers
- 6.5
- industry benchmark (BLS)
- 47
- recordable injuries tracked
Grade compares Northwest Horizons/Brendan House's OSHA Total Case Rate of 14.8 to the Convalescent homes or convalescent hospitals (except psychiatric) BLS benchmark of 6.5 (228% of benchmark) across 5 years of Form 300A filings (2016–2024). <a href="/methodology">See methodology</a> for reporting-limitation caveats.
Injury rate over time
Northwest Horizons/Brendan House's yearly Total Case Rate, against the 6.5 industry benchmark.
Where Northwest Horizons/Brendan House falls in its industry
15,832 Convalescent homes or convales establishmentsSafer than 13% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.5.
Narrower to Montana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #58 safest of 72 Convalescent homes or convales employers in Montana.
Trend analysis for Northwest Horizons/Brendan House
Between 2016 and 2020, Northwest Horizons/Brendan House's Total Case Rate worsened from 0.7 to 40.8 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers, a 5419% increase across 4 years of OSHA reporting.
The safest year on record was 2016, at a TCR of 0.7, while 2020 saw the highest rate, at 40.8, a spread of 40.1 points between the best and worst reporting years. That's a wide swing relative to the establishment's overall rate, worth checking the year-by-year table below for whether a single severe year is driving the average, rather than a sustained trend.
Summed across those 5 reporting years, Northwest Horizons/Brendan House recorded 47 total injuries and illnesses, with no fatalities reported in any of those years. Readers comparing establishments should weigh the 5-year trend above alongside establishment size, since a larger workforce naturally accumulates more raw incidents even at a lower per-100-worker rate.
Verify This Employer with OSHA
The 47 injuries, 46 illnesses shown on this page for Northwest Horizons/Brendan House are sourced from its own 5 years of mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source, name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.
Verify on OSHA Establishment SearchSource: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 623110 - Convalescent homes or convalescent hospitals (except psychiatric).
DART Rate, Transparent Calculation (2020)
What is the DART rate formula?
DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.
49 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 239,956 hours worked = 40.84 DART
Methodology: 29 CFR 1904, OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping
Cross-Validating Context, Establishment vs Industry vs State
| Benchmark | TCR | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Northwest Horizons/Brendan House (this establishment) | 14.80 | OSHA ITA Form 300A, 5-year avg |
| Skilled nursing facilities industry avg | 6.50 | BLS IIF, NAICS 623110 |
| Montana state avg (all industries) | 6.63 | OSHA ITA, state-level rollup |
Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program
Reportable Incident Timeline
Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by Northwest Horizons/Brendan House to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.
- 2020: 49 reportable incidents · 6 injuries, 43 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2019: 20 reportable incidents · 19 injuries, 1 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2018: 12 reportable incidents · 10 injuries, 2 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2017: 11 reportable incidents · 11 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2016: 1 reportable incidents · 1 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) - inspection case-number records
Year-by-Year Safety Data
| Year | TCR | DART | Injuries | Illnesses | Fatalities |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 40.8 | 40.8 | 6 | 43 | 0 |
| 2019 | 15.1 | 12.8 | 19 | 1 | 0 |
| 2018 | 9.2 | 4.6 | 10 | 2 | 0 |
| 2017 | 8.1 | 5.1 | 11 | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
What this grade means for you
Use this grade as a relative read on Northwest Horizons/Brendan House's reported OSHA injury record versus its Convalescent homes or convalescent hospitals (except psychiatric) peers, not a verdict on whether any single site is safe today.
- At 228% of the Convalescent homes or convalescent hospitals (except psychiatric) benchmark, Northwest Horizons/Brendan House reports more injuries than typical peers, ask specifically how the employer is reducing them. Know your rights
- Judge this record against the wider Convalescent homes or convalescent hospitals (except psychiatric) sector, where injury rates vary widely, before comparing it in isolation. See the industry
- Grades reflect 2016–2024 filings; check the latest establishment record straight from OSHA, or look up a different employer. Look up another
Safety grades reflect employers' self-reported OSHA Form 300A filings from 2016 to 2024 and can lag current conditions. A grade is not a guarantee that any specific workplace is safe or unsafe today. See our methodology and disclaimer.
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Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.