Nursing Care Facilities Skilled Nursing Facilities · Michigan

The Laurels of Kent

Lowell, MI · ~130 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
6.7
Avg TCR
6.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

The Laurels of Kent runs at 103% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Nursing Care Facilities Skilled Nursing Facilities workplace, earning a grade C.

The Laurels of Kent: 6.7 TCR = 103% of Nursing Care Facilities Skilled Nursing Facilities BLS 6.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

The Laurels of Kent safety composite

The Laurels of Kent scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 40%), 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

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% of industry peers

DART rate
D 4.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% 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%).

Rising injury rate

The Laurels of Kent: 2.0 → 6.9 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 14.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.69× in 2024

The Laurels of Kent's TCR rose 4.9 from 2.0 in 2016 to 6.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 14.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.69× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 623110 · Lowell, MI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 6.7 · 103% of ind

  • DART 4.6 DART
  • RANK #196/471
  • PHOTO The Friendly Home Inc.
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 30 inj
  • SIZE ~130 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: The Friendly Home Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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The Laurels of Kent in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows The Laurels of Kent averages 6.7 TCR (103% of the Nursing Care Facilities Skilled Nursing Facilities BLS benchmark).

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

The Laurels of Kent TCR series: 2016=2 · 2017=3.7 · 2018=5.3 · 2019=7.8 · 2020=14.5 · 2024=6.9 · BLS 6.5

Where The Laurels of Kent falls in its industry

15,252 Nursing Care Facilities Skille establishments

Safer than 49% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #196 safest of 471 Nursing Care Facilities Skille employers in Michigan.

The Laurels of Kent (130 employees, TCR 6.7) 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 The Laurels of Kent
The Laurels of Kent (130 employees, TCR 6.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 106 employees and a TCR of 6.6

The Laurels of Kent has more employees than the Nursing Care Facilities Skilled Nursing 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
2024 6.9 4.6 6 0 0
2020 14.5 14.5 4 8 0
2019 7.8 6.8 8 0 0
2018 5.3 4.4 6 0 0
2017 3.7 3.7 4 0 0
2016 2.0 2.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

623110 · MI · Lowell

15,252 Nursing Care Facilities Skilled Nursing Facilities employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 32 employers in Lowell, MI · 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 The Friendly Home Inc. 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jefferson County nursing home 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 461 LAUREL CENTER - PA 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Goodwater Healthcare Center 6.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Randazzo Mechanical Heating & Cooling 130 FTE
STATE-SIZE BYERS D.C. DETROIT INC 130 FTE
STATE-SIZE R.L. Adams Plastics, Inc. 130 FTE
STATE-SIZE Novares LLC -Howell 130 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lowell Area Schools 420 FTE
CITY-NEAR Litehouse Inc. - Lowell 373 FTE
CITY-NEAR Litehouse Foods Inc 320 FTE
CITY-NEAR 205 - Lowell 273 FTE
NAT-TCR Elsner Engineering Works, Inc. 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR The Cottages at The Glen 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Facility 545 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Vestas Nacelles America, Inc. 6.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Store 056 130 FTE
NAT-SIZE Store 253 130 FTE
NAT-SIZE Store 437 130 FTE
NAT-SIZE Alta Forest Products Naples 130 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 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.