Nursing homes · Iowa

Southern Hills Specialty Care

Osceola, IA · ~70 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
8.6
Avg TCR
6.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Southern Hills Specialty Care runs at 132% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Nursing homes workplace, earning a grade D.

Southern Hills Specialty Care: 8.6 TCR = 132% of Nursing homes BLS 6.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Southern Hills Specialty Care safety composite

Southern Hills Specialty Care scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 35%), 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

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 8.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% of industry peers

DART rate
D 4.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% 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

−8.6

2016→2023

Southern Hills Specialty Care injury rate improved

Southern Hills Specialty Care's TCR fell 8.6 from 17.2 in 2016 to 8.6 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2016 at 17.2 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.5× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=17.2 · 2019=0.0 · 2023=8.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 623110 · Osceola, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 8.6 · 132% of ind

  • DART 4.3 DART
  • RANK #254/396
  • PHOTO MediLodge of Cheboygan
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~70 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: MediLodge of Cheboygan (0.0 TCR gap)

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Southern Hills Specialty Care in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Southern Hills Specialty Care averages 8.6 TCR (132% of the Nursing homes BLS benchmark).

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

Southern Hills Specialty Care TCR series: 2016=17.2 · 2019=0 · 2023=8.6 · BLS 6.5

Where Southern Hills Specialty Care falls in its industry

15,252 Nursing homes establishments

Safer than 35% 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 #254 safest of 396 Nursing homes employers in Iowa.

Southern Hills Specialty Care (70 employees, TCR 8.6) 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 Southern Hills Specialty Care
Southern Hills Specialty Care (70 employees, TCR 8.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 106 employees and a TCR of 6.6

Southern Hills Specialty Care 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
2023 8.6 4.3 6 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 17.2 14.6 12 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

623110 · IA · Osceola

15,252 Nursing homes employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 25 employers in Osceola, 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 MediLodge of Cheboygan 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR New Horizons Limestone 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR ALARIS HEALTH AT ST MARY'S 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Living Service Foundations Mora 8.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Iowa Falls Office 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE GCI Gladbrook 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE Henkel Construction Company 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE Knutson Construction Midwest 70 FTE
CITY-NEAR Osceola Food, LLC. 931 FTE
CITY-NEAR Oscecola Food, LLC 893 FTE
CITY-NEAR Osceola 195 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hormel Osceola WHS 188 FTE
NAT-TCR Glacier Northwest dba CalPortland (Duwamish Ready-Mix) 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Middlesboro ARH Hospital 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Road Products, LLC 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Avamere at Wenatchee 8.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ascension At Home Neenah 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ascension At Home Grand Blanc 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE Legacy Farms 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE C&E Industrial Services Inc. 70 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, 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.