Continuing care retirement communities · Illinois

Smith Cares

Chicago, IL · ~69 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
14.8
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Smith Cares runs at 390% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Continuing care retirement communities workplace, earning a grade F.

Smith Cares: 14.8 TCR = 390% of Continuing care retirement communities BLS 3.8 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Smith Cares safety composite

Smith Cares scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 87% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 13%), 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

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 14.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% 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

−37.4

2020→2024

Smith Cares injury rate improved

Smith Cares's TCR fell 37.4 from 37.4 in 2020 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 51.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=37.4 · 2021=20.1 · 2022=51.9 · 2023=1.7 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 623311 · Chicago, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 14.8 · 390% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #215/265
  • PHOTO Paul's Run Retiremen…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~69 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Paul's Run Retirement Community (0.0 TCR gap)

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Smith Cares in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Smith Cares averages 14.8 TCR (390% of the Continuing care retirement communities BLS benchmark).

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

Smith Cares TCR series: 2020=37.4 · 2021=20.1 · 2022=51.9 · 2023=1.7 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.8

Where Smith Cares falls in its industry

4,127 Continuing care retirement com establishments

Safer than 13% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #215 safest of 265 Continuing care retirement com employers in Illinois.

Smith Cares (69 employees, TCR 14.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 66 employees and a TCR of 6.9 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 050100150200250 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Smith Cares
Smith Cares (69 employees, TCR 14.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 66 employees and a TCR of 6.9

Smith Cares has more employees than the Continuing care retirement communities median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.9. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 1.7 0.0 1 0 0
2022 51.9 49.2 3 16 0
2021 20.1 18.3 2 9 0
2020 37.4 35.4 4 15 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

623311 · IL · Chicago

4,127 Continuing care retirement communities employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 2,934 employers in Chicago, IL · 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 Paul's Run Retirement Community 14.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cambridge House of Maryvi 14.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Silverado Thousand Oaks - 476 14.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR PVV 14.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pioneer HiBred International Inc. McLeansboro Production 69 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corteva Litchfield 69 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2057-Centralia, IL (Monsanto Co.) 69 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hennepin Power Station 69 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chicago Public Schools 49,500 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chicago/Corporate 18,831 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Illinois at Chicago 13,092 FTE
CITY-NEAR University Health Service UIC UIC Campus 12,732 FTE
NAT-TCR Evergreen Design-Build, LLC. 14.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Clegg's Nursery LLC #4 14.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Daaquam Lumber Maine Inc. 14.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Element Biosciences 14.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE AMB - 2415 E 15th St. 69 FTE
NAT-SIZE GH Dairy - Las Uvas 69 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Ligature - 0204 69 FTE
NAT-SIZE Idahoan Foods, LLC - Rupert Plant 69 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, 2021, 2020. 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.