Nursing homes · Minnesota

Sandstone Health Care Center

Sandstone, MN · ~91 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
11.1
Avg TCR
6.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sandstone Health Care Center runs at 171% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Nursing homes workplace, earning a grade D.

Sandstone Health Care Center: 11.1 TCR = 171% of Nursing homes BLS 6.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sandstone Health Care Center safety composite

Sandstone Health Care Center scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 7%), 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).

F

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
F 19.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% 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

Sandstone Health Care Center: 0.0 → 20.0 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 20.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.8× in 2024

Sandstone Health Care Center's TCR rose 20.0 from 0.0 in 2021 to 20.0 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.8× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 623110 · Sandstone, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 11.1 · 171% of ind

  • DART 20.0 DART
  • RANK #301/430
  • PHOTO Heritage Hills Livin…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~91 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Heritage Hills Living and Rehabilitation Center (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sandstone Health Care Center in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sandstone Health Care Center averages 11.1 TCR (171% of the Nursing homes BLS benchmark).

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

Sandstone Health Care Center TCR series: 2021=0 · 2023=13.3 · 2024=20 · BLS 6.5

Where Sandstone Health Care Center falls in its industry

15,252 Nursing homes establishments

Safer than 23% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #301 safest of 430 Nursing homes employers in Minnesota.

Sandstone Health Care Center (91 employees, TCR 11.1) 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 Sandstone Health Care Center
Sandstone Health Care Center (91 employees, TCR 11.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 106 employees and a TCR of 6.6

Sandstone Health Care Center has fewer employees than the Nursing homes 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 20.0 20.0 11 0 0
2023 13.3 13.3 10 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

623110 · MN · Sandstone

15,252 Nursing homes employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 5 employers in Sandstone, MN · 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 Heritage Hills Living and Rehabilitation Center 11.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR South Hills Rehabilitation and Wellness Center 11.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trailpoint Village 11.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Montowese Health & Rehabilitation Center 11.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bushel Boy Farms, LLP 91 FTE
STATE-SIZE Interstate Improvement, Inc. 91 FTE
STATE-SIZE RJ Mechanical Inc 91 FTE
STATE-SIZE Harty Mechanical 91 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sandstone 139 FTE
CITY-NEAR Essentia Health Sandstone 133 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chris' Food Center - Sandstone 90 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Sandstone 34 FTE
NAT-TCR On Your Mark Inc 11.1 TCR
NAT-TCR ABF Freight 040 11.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Westmont Dc 11.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Granco Clark Inc 11.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Bret Achtenhagen's Seasonal Services 91 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rieke Office Interiors 91 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brandywine Living at Livingston 91 FTE
NAT-SIZE Avanator.com LLC 91 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, 2021. 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.