Skilled nursing facilities · Illinois

Norwegian Lutheran Bethesda Home

Chicago, IL · ~136 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
6.4
Avg TCR
6.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Norwegian Lutheran Bethesda Home runs at 98% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Skilled nursing facilities workplace, earning a grade C.

Norwegian Lutheran Bethesda Home: 6.4 TCR = 98% of Skilled nursing facilities BLS 6.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Norwegian Lutheran Bethesda Home safety composite

Norwegian Lutheran Bethesda Home scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 35%), 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

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% of industry peers

DART rate
D 5.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% 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%).

TCR Δ

−3.3

2016→2019

Norwegian Lutheran Bethesda Home injury rate improved

Norwegian Lutheran Bethesda Home's TCR fell 3.3 from 9.3 in 2016 to 6.0 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2016 at 9.3 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.82× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=9.3 · 2018=3.8 · 2019=6.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 623110 · Chicago, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 6.4 · 98% of ind

  • DART 5.3 DART
  • RANK #402/857
  • PHOTO Vineyard Court Nursi…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~136 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Vineyard Court Nursing Center (0.0 TCR gap)

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Norwegian Lutheran Bethesda Home in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Norwegian Lutheran Bethesda Home averages 6.4 TCR (98% of the Skilled nursing facilities BLS benchmark).

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

Norwegian Lutheran Bethesda Home TCR series: 2016=9.3 · 2018=3.8 · 2019=6 · BLS 6.5

Where Norwegian Lutheran Bethesda Home falls in its industry

15,252 Skilled nursing facilities establishments

Safer than 52% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #402 safest of 857 Skilled nursing facilities employers in Illinois.

Norwegian Lutheran Bethesda Home (136 employees, TCR 6.4) 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 Norwegian Lutheran Bethesda Home
Norwegian Lutheran Bethesda Home (136 employees, TCR 6.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 106 employees and a TCR of 6.6

Norwegian Lutheran Bethesda Home has more 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
2019 6.0 5.3 8 0 0
2018 3.8 3.8 4 0 0
2016 9.3 9.3 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

623110 · IL · Chicago

15,252 Skilled nursing facilities employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 2,934 employers in Chicago, IL · 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 Vineyard Court Nursing Center 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR MediLodge of Munising 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Vancrest New Carlisle 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fannie E Taylor Home for the Aged- Taylor Care Center, INC 6.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE 71E - Northern N - IL Electric Ops 136 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Northern N - IL Electric Ops 136 FTE
STATE-SIZE Crestwood 136 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2000 Plus Groups, Inc. DBA Crescent Foods 136 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chicago Public Schools 49,500 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chicago/Corporate 18,831 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Illinois at Chicago 13,092 FTE
CITY-NEAR University Health Service UIC UIC Campus 12,732 FTE
NAT-TCR Courtyard Las Vegas South 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 310 - Short Pump 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Trailboss Equipment 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR MN,BEMIDJI - Medical Center Campus - General Medical and Surgical Hospitals 6.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Garratt-Callahan Company 136 FTE
NAT-SIZE Raytheon_Aberdeen Proving Ground_MD 136 FTE
NAT-SIZE Day By Day Hospice 35-2237665 136 FTE
NAT-SIZE Plants 3 and 5 136 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: 2019, 2018, 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.