Homes for the Elderly · Connecticut

The Orchards

Southington, CT · ~56 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.3
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

The Orchards runs at 193% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Homes for the Elderly workplace, earning a grade D.

The Orchards: 7.3 TCR = 193% of Homes for the Elderly BLS 3.8 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

The Orchards safety composite

The Orchards scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 27%), 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

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 7.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% 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

The Orchards: 0.0 → 6.6 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 17.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.9× in 2024

The Orchards's TCR rose 6.6 from 0.0 in 2016 to 6.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 17.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.9× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 623312 · Southington, CT ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 7.3 · 193% of ind

  • DART 6.6 DART
  • RANK #26/100
  • PHOTO Azura Brookfield
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~56 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Azura Brookfield (0.0 TCR gap)

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The Orchards in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows The Orchards averages 7.3 TCR (193% of the Homes for the Elderly BLS benchmark).

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

The Orchards TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0 · 2018=8 · 2019=4.8 · 2020=9.3 · 2021=5 · 2022=14.8 · 2023=17.6 · 2024=6.6 · BLS 3.8

Where The Orchards falls in its industry

6,510 Homes for the Elderly establishments

Safer than 49% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 7.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Connecticut alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #26 safest of 100 Homes for the Elderly employers in Connecticut.

The Orchards (56 employees, TCR 7.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 7.2 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 0100200300 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate The Orchards
The Orchards (56 employees, TCR 7.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 7.2

The Orchards has more employees than the Homes for the Elderly median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 7.2. 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 6.6 6.6 3 0 0
2023 17.6 15.1 3 4 0
2022 14.8 12.3 3 3 0
2021 5.0 2.5 2 0 0
2020 9.3 7.0 4 0 0
2019 4.8 2.4 2 0 0
2018 8.0 2.7 3 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

623312 · CT · Southington

6,510 Homes for the Elderly employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,008 rated employers in Connecticut with headcount on file · 57 employers in Southington, CT · 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 Azura Brookfield 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Brookdale Lake Mary 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Meadowmere Mitchell Manor Oak Creek 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Villas of Holly Brook - Fox Creek 7.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE The Morganti Group Inc CT 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE Carlin Contracting Co., Inc. 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE New England Yankee Construction, LLC 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE Longhini Sausage 56 FTE
CITY-NEAR Yarde Metals, Inc.: Connecticut 384 FTE
CITY-NEAR Yarde Metals Southington CT 314 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2434 - Southington 247 FTE
CITY-NEAR SOUTHINGTON CARE CENTER 246 FTE
NAT-TCR Wythe County Community Hospital LLC 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Txleo - Leon Valley 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Wine Concrete Products Inc 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Weeks Food Corp 7.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE STR0689 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE STR0463 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE Anchor Bay at Pocasset 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE Aurora Bickford 56 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, 2022, 2021, 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.