Nursing homes · Iowa

Ridgewood Specialty Care

Ottumwa, IA · ~44 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
4.5
Avg TCR
6.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ridgewood Specialty Care runs at 70% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Nursing homes workplace, earning a grade B.

Ridgewood Specialty Care: 4.5 TCR = 70% of Nursing homes BLS 6.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ridgewood Specialty Care safety composite

Ridgewood Specialty Care scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 70% 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

62/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 61% 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

−3.5

2016→2023

Ridgewood Specialty Care injury rate improved

Ridgewood Specialty Care's TCR fell 3.5 from 8.4 in 2016 to 4.9 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2016 at 8.4 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.54× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=8.4 · 2017=4.8 · 2019=0.0 · 2023=4.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 623110 · Ottumwa, IA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 4.5 · 70% of ind

  • DART 2.5 DART
  • RANK #98/396
  • PHOTO Quail Creek Skilled …
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~44 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Quail Creek Skilled Nursing, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ridgewood Specialty Care in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ridgewood Specialty Care averages 4.5 TCR (70% of the Nursing homes BLS benchmark).

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

Ridgewood Specialty Care TCR series: 2016=8.4 · 2017=4.8 · 2019=0 · 2023=4.9 · BLS 6.5

Where Ridgewood Specialty Care falls in its industry

15,252 Nursing homes establishments

Safer than 70% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #98 safest of 396 Nursing homes employers in Iowa.

Ridgewood Specialty Care (44 employees, TCR 4.5) 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 Ridgewood Specialty Care
Ridgewood Specialty Care (44 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 106 employees and a TCR of 6.6

Ridgewood Specialty Care has fewer 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
2023 4.9 2.5 2 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 4.8 4.8 2 0 0
2016 8.4 2.1 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

623110 · IA · Ottumwa

15,252 Nursing homes employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 57 employers in Ottumwa, IA · 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 Quail Creek Skilled Nursing, LLC 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Meadowview Rehab and Nursing 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR PMG OPCO - Colonial LLC 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Claremont Care Center 4.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Centrum Valley Farms East 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE GAC 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2511-Beaman, IA (Monsanto Co.) 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2050-Clarion, IA (Monsanto Co.) 44 FTE
CITY-NEAR JBS 2,121 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ottumwa Works 789 FTE
CITY-NEAR John Deere Ottumwa Works 758 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ottumwa Regional Health Center 573 FTE
NAT-TCR Putnam #189 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Barrel O'Fun SNack Foods Co., LLC 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Verland 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Alaskan Copper 4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Glenwood 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dominion Richmond, LLC 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Compassus - Neenah 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Builders Fence Company, Inc. Corporate/Yard 44 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: 2023, 2019, 2017, 2016. 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.