Skilled nursing facilities · North Carolina

Valdese Nursing Home

Rutherford College, NC · ~110 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
6.9
Avg TCR
6.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Valdese Nursing Home runs at 107% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Skilled nursing facilities workplace, earning a grade C.

Valdese Nursing Home: 6.9 TCR = 107% of Skilled nursing facilities BLS 6.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Valdese Nursing Home safety composite

Valdese Nursing Home scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 62% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 47%), 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

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% 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

Valdese Nursing Home: 2.3 → 4.8 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 11.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.34× in 2019

Valdese Nursing Home's TCR rose 2.5 from 2.3 in 2016 to 4.8 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2017 at 11.6 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.34× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 623110 · Rutherford College, NC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 6.9 · 107% of ind

  • DART 2.4 DART
  • RANK #283/510
  • PHOTO Windsor Atrium
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 23 inj
  • SIZE ~110 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Windsor Atrium (0.0 TCR gap)

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Valdese Nursing Home in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Valdese Nursing Home averages 6.9 TCR (107% of the Skilled nursing facilities BLS benchmark).

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

Valdese Nursing Home TCR series: 2016=2.3 · 2017=11.6 · 2018=9.1 · 2019=4.8 · BLS 6.5

Where Valdese Nursing Home falls in its industry

15,252 Skilled nursing facilities establishments

Safer than 47% 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 #283 safest of 510 Skilled nursing facilities employers in North Carolina.

Valdese Nursing Home (110 employees, TCR 6.9) 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 Valdese Nursing Home
Valdese Nursing Home (110 employees, TCR 6.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 106 employees and a TCR of 6.6

Valdese Nursing Home has more employees than the Skilled nursing facilities 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
2019 4.8 2.4 2 0 0
2018 9.1 9.1 8 0 0
2017 11.6 8.5 11 0 0
2016 2.3 2.3 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

623110 · NC · Rutherford College

15,252 Skilled nursing facilities employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 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 Windsor Atrium 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jewish Association on Aging 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Oregon Living & Rehabilitation Center, LLC 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Burlington Medical Investors LLC dba Life Care Center of Burlington 6.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE MSF Electric, Inc. North Carolina 110 FTE
STATE-SIZE Otis Elevator Company-Charlotte 110 FTE
STATE-SIZE 698 110 FTE
STATE-SIZE B-Organized Insulation & Specialty Products #764 110 FTE
CITY-NEAR Aquafil OMara 151 FTE
NAT-TCR S05652 - Dallas Container Shop 6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 6962-Swy 0025 0954 6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Lusa Okc, LLC 6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Downtown Detroit Partnership 6.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE 175 Washington St 110 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fairmount Nursing Home 110 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1585 Waukegan Rd 110 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4054-Abs 0030 0161 110 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: 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.