Skilled nursing facilities · Massachusetts

Palmer Healthcare Center

Palmer, MA · ~59 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
8.3
Avg TCR
6.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Palmer Healthcare Center runs at 127% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Skilled nursing facilities workplace, earning a grade D.

Palmer Healthcare Center: 8.3 TCR = 127% of Skilled nursing facilities BLS 6.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Palmer Healthcare Center safety composite

Palmer Healthcare Center scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 37%), 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

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 8.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% 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%).

Palmer Healthcare Center held a steady TCR band

Palmer Healthcare Center's TCR held near 0.0 from 10.0 in 2018 to 9.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 10.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.48× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=10.0 · 2019=4.8 · 2024=9.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 623110 · Palmer, MA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 8.3 · 127% of ind

  • DART 4.0 DART
  • RANK #244/423
  • PHOTO Bayberry Commons Nur…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~59 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bayberry Commons Nursing & Rehabilitation (0.0 TCR gap)

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Palmer Healthcare Center in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Palmer Healthcare Center averages 8.3 TCR (127% of the Skilled nursing facilities BLS benchmark).

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

Palmer Healthcare Center TCR series: 2018=10 · 2019=4.8 · 2024=9.9 · BLS 6.5

Where Palmer Healthcare Center falls in its industry

15,252 Skilled nursing facilities establishments

Safer than 37% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #244 safest of 423 Skilled nursing facilities employers in Massachusetts.

Palmer Healthcare Center (59 employees, TCR 8.3) 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 Palmer Healthcare Center
Palmer Healthcare Center (59 employees, TCR 8.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 106 employees and a TCR of 6.6

Palmer Healthcare Center has fewer employees than the Skilled nursing facilities 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 9.9 4.0 5 0 0
2019 4.8 4.8 2 0 0
2018 10.0 10.0 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

623110 · MA · Palmer

15,252 Skilled nursing facilities employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 27 employers in Palmer, MA · 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 Bayberry Commons Nursing & Rehabilitation 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cypress Pointe Health Campus 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Arbors at Oregon 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR All American Village Nursing & Rehabilitation Center 8.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Eversource - Brookdale Ave 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE Structures Derek International sa 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE Grattan Line Construction 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ballard - Mid-Atlantic 59 FTE
CITY-NEAR WMH - Wing Memorial Hospital 676 FTE
CITY-NEAR BWH - Baystate Wing Hospital 668 FTE
CITY-NEAR Northern Tree Service, LLC 189 FTE
CITY-NEAR Northern General Contractors Inc 168 FTE
NAT-TCR Natural Bridge Caverns LLC 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Hotel Whitcomb 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR C&C Harvesting, Inc. 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR The Waterford at Wisconsin Rapids 8.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Braham Area Elementary School 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE Condie Construction Company 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE Homeland Energy Solutions, LLC 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE Village of Manteno 59 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, 2019, 2018. 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.