Home care of elderly, medical · Pennsylvania

SpiriTrust Lutheran Home Care & Hospice Luzerne County

Hazleton, PA · ~20 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
8.5
Avg TCR
5.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

SpiriTrust Lutheran Home Care & Hospice Luzerne County runs at 163% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Home care of elderly, medical workplace, earning a grade D.

SpiriTrust Lutheran Home Care & Hospice Luzerne County: 8.5 TCR = 163% of Home care of elderly, medical BLS 5.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

SpiriTrust Lutheran Home Care & Hospice Luzerne County safety composite

SpiriTrust Lutheran Home Care & Hospice Luzerne County scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 2%), 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

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

DART rate
F 16.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

SpiriTrust Lutheran Home Care & Hospice Luzerne County: 0.0 → 16.9 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 16.9 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2017

SpiriTrust Lutheran Home Care & Hospice Luzerne County's TCR rose 16.9 from 0.0 in 2016 to 16.9 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 621610 · Hazleton, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 8.5 · 163% of ind

  • DART 16.9 DART
  • RANK #302/375
  • PHOTO Caring For The Capitol
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~20 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Caring For The Capitol (0.0 TCR gap)

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SpiriTrust Lutheran Home Care & Hospice Luzerne County in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows SpiriTrust Lutheran Home Care & Hospice Luzerne County averages 8.5 TCR (163% of the Home care of elderly, medical BLS benchmark).

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

SpiriTrust Lutheran Home Care & Hospice Luzerne County TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=16.9 · BLS 5.2

Where SpiriTrust Lutheran Home Care & Hospice Luzerne County falls in its industry

3,635 Home care of elderly, medical establishments

Safer than 18% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #302 safest of 375 Home care of elderly, medical employers in Pennsylvania.

SpiriTrust Lutheran Home Care & Hospice Luzerne County (20 employees, TCR 8.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate SpiriTrust Lutheran Home Care & Hospice Luzerne County
SpiriTrust Lutheran Home Care & Hospice Luzerne County (20 employees, TCR 8.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 4.4

SpiriTrust Lutheran Home Care & Hospice Luzerne County has fewer employees than the Home care of elderly, medical median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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
2017 16.9 16.9 3 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

621610 · PA · Hazleton

3,635 Home care of elderly, medical employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 79 employers in Hazleton, PA · 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 Caring For The Capitol 8.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Scottsdale Hospice 8.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR VNA Comprehensive Services Inc. 8.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fairview Hospice 8.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE VanBlarcom 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Matterns Hatchery 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Brookfield Renewable - Holtwood 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Springdale 3,4,5 20 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - AVP1 2,394 FTE
CITY-NEAR Case Ready Hazleton PA 872 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lehigh Valley Hospital - Hazleton 796 FTE
CITY-NEAR LVH-Hazleton 722 FTE
NAT-TCR 3853 Wheel Fix IT 8.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Heritage Manor Stratmore Nursing & Rehab Center 8.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Gold Cross-Eau Claire 8.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 4795-PD-MHT-MANCHESTER-PD 8.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Crown Lift Trucks Shreveport 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0787 - Cullman, Al 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0751 - Ridgecrest, Ca 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0662 - Amsterdam, Ny 20 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: 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.