Assisted-living facilities without on-site nursing care facilities · Pennsylvania
The Birches at Harleysville
Harleysville, PA · ~69 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.
- F
- Failing Safety Record
- 14.5
- Avg TCR
- 3.8
- Industry avg
- 0
- Fatalities
The verdict
The Birches at Harleysville runs at 382% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Assisted-living facilities without on-site nursing care facilities workplace, earning a grade F.
- F
- Failing Safety Record
- 14.5
- avg TCR · per 100 workers
- 3.8
- industry benchmark (BLS)
- 15
- recordable injuries tracked
Grade compares The Birches at Harleysville's OSHA Total Case Rate of 14.5 to the Assisted-living facilities without on-site nursing care facilities BLS benchmark of 3.8 (382% of benchmark) across 3 years of Form 300A filings (2016–2024). <a href="/methodology">See methodology</a> for reporting-limitation caveats.
Injury rate over time
The Birches at Harleysville's yearly Total Case Rate, against the 3.8 industry benchmark.
Where The Birches at Harleysville falls in its industry
6,975 Assisted-living facilities wit establishmentsSafer than 13% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.8.
Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #214 safest of 247 Assisted-living facilities wit employers in Pennsylvania.
Trend analysis for The Birches at Harleysville
Between 2022 and 2024, The Birches at Harleysville's Total Case Rate worsened from 8.9 to 26.0 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers, a 191% increase across 2 years of OSHA reporting.
The safest year on record was 2023, at a TCR of 8.7, while 2024 saw the highest rate, at 26.0, a spread of 17.3 points between the best and worst reporting years. That's a wide swing relative to the establishment's overall rate, worth checking the year-by-year table below for whether a single severe year is driving the average, rather than a sustained trend.
Summed across those 3 reporting years, The Birches at Harleysville recorded 15 total injuries and illnesses, with no fatalities reported in any of those years. Readers comparing establishments should weigh the 3-year trend above alongside establishment size, since a larger workforce naturally accumulates more raw incidents even at a lower per-100-worker rate.
Verify This Employer with OSHA
The 15 injuries shown on this page for The Birches at Harleysville are sourced from its own 3 years of mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source, name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.
Verify on OSHA Establishment SearchSource: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 623312 - Assisted-living facilities without on-site nursing care facilities.
DART Rate, Transparent Calculation (2024)
What is the DART rate formula?
DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.
3 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 69,269 hours worked = 8.66 DART
Methodology: 29 CFR 1904, OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping
Cross-Validating Context, Establishment vs Industry vs State
| Benchmark | TCR | Source |
|---|---|---|
| The Birches at Harleysville (this establishment) | 14.53 | OSHA ITA Form 300A, 3-year avg |
| Homes for the elderly without nursing care industry avg | 3.80 | BLS IIF, NAICS 623312 |
| Pennsylvania state avg (all industries) | 5.06 | OSHA ITA, state-level rollup |
Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program
Reportable Incident Timeline
Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by The Birches at Harleysville to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.
- 2024: 9 reportable incidents · 9 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2023: 3 reportable incidents · 3 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2022: 3 reportable incidents · 3 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) - inspection case-number records
Year-by-Year Safety Data
| Year | TCR | DART | Injuries | Illnesses | Fatalities |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 26.0 | 8.7 | 9 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 8.7 | 8.7 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 8.9 | 8.9 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
What this grade means for you
Use this grade as a relative read on The Birches at Harleysville's reported OSHA injury record versus its Assisted-living facilities without on-site nursing care facilities peers, not a verdict on whether any single site is safe today.
- At 382% of the Assisted-living facilities without on-site nursing care facilities benchmark, The Birches at Harleysville reports more injuries than typical peers, ask specifically how the employer is reducing them. Know your rights
- Judge this record against the wider Assisted-living facilities without on-site nursing care facilities sector, where injury rates vary widely, before comparing it in isolation. See the industry
- Grades reflect 2016–2024 filings; check the latest establishment record straight from OSHA, or look up a different employer. Look up another
Safety grades reflect employers' self-reported OSHA Form 300A filings from 2016 to 2024 and can lag current conditions. A grade is not a guarantee that any specific workplace is safe or unsafe today. See our methodology and disclaimer.
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Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.