Nursing homes · North Carolina

The Oaks at Sweeten Creek

Arden, NC · ~59 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
14.0
Avg TCR
6.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

The Oaks at Sweeten Creek runs at 215% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Nursing homes workplace, earning a grade F.

The Oaks at Sweeten Creek: 14.0 TCR = 215% of Nursing homes BLS 6.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

The Oaks at Sweeten Creek safety composite

The Oaks at Sweeten Creek scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 14%), 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

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 13.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% 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 Oaks at Sweeten Creek: 1.4 → 11.6 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 29.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.69× in 2022

The Oaks at Sweeten Creek's TCR rose 10.2 from 1.4 in 2016 to 11.6 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2020 at 29.0 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.69× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 623110 · Arden, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 14.0 · 215% of ind

  • DART 9.7 DART
  • RANK #454/510
  • PHOTO The Laurels of Bedford
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 23 inj
  • SIZE ~59 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: The Laurels of Bedford (0.0 TCR gap)

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The Oaks at Sweeten Creek in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows The Oaks at Sweeten Creek averages 14.0 TCR (215% of the Nursing homes BLS benchmark).

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

The Oaks at Sweeten Creek TCR series: 2016=1.4 · 2019=11.6 · 2020=29 · 2021=16.4 · 2022=11.6 · BLS 6.5

Where The Oaks at Sweeten Creek falls in its industry

15,252 Nursing homes establishments

Safer than 14% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #454 safest of 510 Nursing homes employers in North Carolina.

The Oaks at Sweeten Creek (59 employees, TCR 14.0) 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 Oaks at Sweeten Creek
The Oaks at Sweeten Creek (59 employees, TCR 14.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 106 employees and a TCR of 6.6

The Oaks at Sweeten Creek 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
2022 11.6 9.7 3 3 0
2021 16.4 16.4 2 6 0
2020 29.0 29.0 1 18 0
2019 11.6 9.9 7 0 0
2016 1.4 1.4 10 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

623110 · NC · Arden

15,252 Nursing homes employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 77 employers in Arden, NC · 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 Laurels of Bedford 14.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Plantation Bay Rehabilition Center 14.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Charlotte Health Care Center 14.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR COLUMBUS HEALTH & REHAB, LLC 14.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE The Christman Company - NC 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pike Mississippi Statewide Operations 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rifenburg North Carolina, LLC 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE North Carolina - 03 59 FTE
CITY-NEAR ASHEVILLE NC 997 FTE
CITY-NEAR DUKE-ASHEVILLE 847 FTE
CITY-NEAR BorgWarner Asheville 680 FTE
CITY-NEAR Jabil Healthcare Asheville 566 FTE
NAT-TCR 6458-ZSTA 14.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Medstar LLC 14.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Pacific Coast Shredding 14.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Morsco Supply Co. #2017 14.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Se Ga Hlth Sys Brun 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE Es-Lourdes Hsp Bing 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE ZAGG Inc 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE Le Meridien PHiladelphia 59 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 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.