Nursing homes · Kentucky

Paul E. Patton Eastern Kentucky Veterans Center

Hazard, KY · ~160 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
5.5
Avg TCR
6.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Paul E. Patton Eastern Kentucky Veterans Center runs at 85% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Nursing homes workplace, earning a grade C.

Paul E. Patton Eastern Kentucky Veterans Center: 5.5 TCR = 85% of Nursing homes BLS 6.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Paul E. Patton Eastern Kentucky Veterans Center safety composite

Paul E. Patton Eastern Kentucky Veterans Center scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 60% 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

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 5.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% 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

Paul E. Patton Eastern Kentucky Veterans Center: 3.3 → 4.8 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 9.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.5× in 2024

Paul E. Patton Eastern Kentucky Veterans Center's TCR rose 1.5 from 3.3 in 2018 to 4.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 9.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.5× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 623110 · Hazard, KY AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 5.5 · 85% of ind

  • DART 2.8 DART
  • RANK #115/340
  • PHOTO Pinellas Point Nursi…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 39 inj
  • SIZE ~160 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Pinellas Point Nursing and Rehab Center (0.0 TCR gap)

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Paul E. Patton Eastern Kentucky Veterans Center in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Paul E. Patton Eastern Kentucky Veterans Center averages 5.5 TCR (85% of the Nursing homes BLS benchmark).

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

Paul E. Patton Eastern Kentucky Veterans Center TCR series: 2018=3.3 · 2019=5.1 · 2020=4.9 · 2022=9.8 · 2023=5 · 2024=4.8 · BLS 6.5

Where Paul E. Patton Eastern Kentucky Veterans Center falls in its industry

15,252 Nursing homes establishments

Safer than 60% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #115 safest of 340 Nursing homes employers in Kentucky.

Paul E. Patton Eastern Kentucky Veterans Center (160 employees, TCR 5.5) 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 Paul E. Patton Eastern Kentucky Veterans Center
Paul E. Patton Eastern Kentucky Veterans Center (160 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 106 employees and a TCR of 6.6

Paul E. Patton Eastern Kentucky Veterans Center has more employees than the Nursing homes 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
2024 4.8 2.8 7 0 0
2023 5.0 4.3 7 0 0
2022 9.8 9.1 4 9 0
2020 4.9 4.4 7 2 0
2019 5.1 5.1 8 0 0
2018 3.3 3.3 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

623110 · KY · Hazard

15,252 Nursing homes employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 48 employers in Hazard, KY · 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 Pinellas Point Nursing and Rehab Center 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Eagle Health & Rehabilitation 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Apostolic Christian Resthaven 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kline Galland Home 5.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Warren Rural Electric Cooperative Corporation 160 FTE
STATE-SIZE Louisville Site 160 FTE
STATE-SIZE AGC Automotive 160 FTE
STATE-SIZE AK Steel - Ashland Works 160 FTE
CITY-NEAR Go Hire Employee & Development, Inc 1,296 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hazard Regional Medical Center 940 FTE
CITY-NEAR Appalachian Regional Healthcare, Inc 875 FTE
CITY-NEAR double kwik Hazard 3 455 FTE
NAT-TCR United Transport, Inc. 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Plant Sciences, Macdoel 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Cadillac Uniform and Linen Supply 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Furst-McNess Company (Lodi) 5.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE PW-Transportation Operations 160 FTE
NAT-SIZE Chalky Ridge Vineyard Management LLC 160 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rio Grande Electric Cooperative, Inc. 160 FTE
NAT-SIZE City Center 160 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, 2023, 2022, 2020, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.