Assisted-living facilities without on-site nursing care facilities · California

Palo Alto Commons

Palo Alto, CA · ~189 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.4
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Palo Alto Commons runs at 248% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Assisted-living facilities without on-site nursing care facilities workplace, earning a grade F.

Palo Alto Commons: 9.4 TCR = 248% of Assisted-living facilities without on-site nursing care facilities BLS 3.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Palo Alto Commons safety composite

Palo Alto Commons scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 34%), 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

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% of industry peers

DART rate
D 4.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

−8.5

2018→2024

Palo Alto Commons injury rate improved

Palo Alto Commons's TCR fell 8.5 from 13.7 in 2018 to 5.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 13.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.49× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=13.7 · 2024=5.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 623312 · Palo Alto, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 9.4 · 248% of ind

  • DART 4.6 DART
  • RANK #329/635
  • PHOTO San Marino Retiremen…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 29 inj
  • SIZE ~189 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: San Marino Retirement Community (0.0 TCR gap)

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Palo Alto Commons in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Palo Alto Commons averages 9.4 TCR (248% of the Assisted-living facilities without on-site nursing care facilities BLS benchmark).

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

Palo Alto Commons TCR series: 2018=13.7 · 2024=5.2 · BLS 3.8

Where Palo Alto Commons falls in its industry

6,510 Assisted-living facilities wit establishments

Safer than 34% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 7.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #329 safest of 635 Assisted-living facilities wit employers in California.

Palo Alto Commons (189 employees, TCR 9.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 7.2 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 0100200300 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Palo Alto Commons
Palo Alto Commons (189 employees, TCR 9.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 7.2

Palo Alto Commons has more employees than the Assisted-living facilities without on-si median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 7.2. 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 5.2 4.6 9 0 0
2018 13.7 11.6 20 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

623312 · CA · Palo Alto

6,510 Assisted-living facilities without on-site nursing care facilities employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 116 employers in Palo Alto, CA · 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 San Marino Retirement Community 9.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Waltonwood Carriage Park AL 9.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 10954 9.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Brookdale Gardens at Westlake 9.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Fallbrook 189 FTE
STATE-SIZE Youngstown Grape Dist., Inc 189 FTE
STATE-SIZE Moonlight Companies Plant 4/MCSI 4 189 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sentinel Peak Resources 189 FTE
CITY-NEAR Stanford Health Care 16,371 FTE
CITY-NEAR NA-US-CA-Palo Alto-Deer Creek-Office 1,878 FTE
CITY-NEAR Varian, Palo Alto 1,396 FTE
CITY-NEAR Palo Alto Medical Foundation (378-10110) 1,227 FTE
NAT-TCR Prepolymer Products LLC 9.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Brookdale Gardens at Westlake 9.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Hanington Bros., Inc 9.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Moser Inc 9.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE In-Place Machining Company 189 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Gardens at West Shore 189 FTE
NAT-SIZE Anna Maria of Aurora Inc 189 FTE
NAT-SIZE Werner Gourmet Meat Snacks Inc. 189 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, 2018. 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.