Nursing homes · Kansas

Sunshine Meadows Retirement Community

Buhler, KS · ~128 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.8
Avg TCR
6.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sunshine Meadows Retirement Community runs at 28% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Nursing homes workplace, earning a grade A.

Sunshine Meadows Retirement Community: 1.8 TCR = 28% of Nursing homes BLS 6.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sunshine Meadows Retirement Community safety composite

Sunshine Meadows Retirement Community scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 93% 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).

B

77/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 93% of industry peers

DART rate
B 1.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% 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

−1.3

2023→2024

Sunshine Meadows Retirement Community injury rate improved

Sunshine Meadows Retirement Community's TCR fell 1.3 from 2.4 in 2023 to 1.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 2.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.65× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=2.4 · 2024=1.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 623110 · Buhler, KS AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.8 · 28% of ind

  • DART 1.2 DART
  • RANK #16/264
  • PHOTO Newport House
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~128 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Newport House (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sunshine Meadows Retirement Community in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sunshine Meadows Retirement Community averages 1.8 TCR (28% of the Nursing homes BLS benchmark).

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

Sunshine Meadows Retirement Community TCR series: 2023=2.4 · 2024=1.2 · BLS 6.5

Where Sunshine Meadows Retirement Community falls in its industry

15,252 Nursing homes establishments

Safer than 93% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #16 safest of 264 Nursing homes employers in Kansas.

Sunshine Meadows Retirement Community (128 employees, TCR 1.8) 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 Sunshine Meadows Retirement Community
Sunshine Meadows Retirement Community (128 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 106 employees and a TCR of 6.6

Sunshine Meadows Retirement Community has more 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
2024 1.2 1.2 1 0 0
2023 2.4 1.2 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

623110 · KS · Buhler

15,252 Nursing homes employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 3 employers in Buhler, KS · 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 Newport House 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Smithville Western Commons 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Soldiers Grove Health Services 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR St Catherine South 1.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Blackburn Construction, INC. 128 FTE
STATE-SIZE ITC Kansas 128 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rehrig Pacific Company Kansas 128 FTE
STATE-SIZE Detroit Reman 128 FTE
CITY-NEAR Buhler Sunshine Home 131 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gregory, Inc. 33 FTE
NAT-TCR Tucker Fletcher 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Rosenberg Plant 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Groot Southwest 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR USA Phoenix 1805 E Sky Hbr Cir 1.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Curia 128 FTE
NAT-SIZE Phillips Chevrolet, Inc. 128 FTE
NAT-SIZE Buffalo Rock Gadsden 128 FTE
NAT-SIZE Legacy Rehabilitation and Living 128 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. 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.