Homes for the elderly with nursing care · Virginia

Valley Health Care Center

Chilhowie, VA · ~225 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
3.5
Avg TCR
6.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Valley Health Care Center runs at 53% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Homes for the elderly with nursing care workplace, earning a grade B.

Valley Health Care Center: 3.5 TCR = 53% of Homes for the elderly with nursing care BLS 6.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Valley Health Care Center safety composite

Valley Health Care Center scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

C

72/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 3.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% of industry peers

DART rate
B 1.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% 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

Valley Health Care Center: 0.0 → 4.0 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 5.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.33× in 2019

Valley Health Care Center's TCR rose 4.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 4.0 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 5.4 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.33× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 623110 · Chilhowie, VA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 3.5 · 53% of ind

  • DART 1.1 DART
  • RANK #74/343
  • PHOTO Cypress Cove Care Ce…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 23 inj
  • SIZE ~225 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cypress Cove Care Center, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Valley Health Care Center in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Valley Health Care Center averages 3.5 TCR (53% of the Homes for the elderly with nursing care BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-09-26

Valley Health Care Center TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=4.4 · 2018=5.4 · 2019=4 · BLS 6.5

Where Valley Health Care Center falls in its industry

15,252 Homes for the elderly with nur establishments

Safer than 80% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #74 safest of 343 Homes for the elderly with nur employers in Virginia.

Valley Health Care Center (225 employees, TCR 3.5) 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 Valley Health Care Center
Valley Health Care Center (225 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 106 employees and a TCR of 6.6

Valley Health Care Center has more employees than the Homes for the elderly with nursing care median and a lower 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 4.0 1.1 7 0 0
2018 5.4 5.4 9 0 0
2017 4.4 3.1 7 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

623110 · VA · Chilhowie

15,252 Homes for the elderly with nursing care employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 11 employers in Chilhowie, VA · 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 Cypress Cove Care Center, LLC 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Manatee Memorial Hospital 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fort Wayne Operations LLC DBA Life Care Center of Fort Wayne 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2248-63330 3.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of Fredericksburg 225 FTE
STATE-SIZE 0340 - FREDERICKSBURG VA WHSE 225 FTE
STATE-SIZE Transportation 225 FTE
STATE-SIZE Library Department 225 FTE
CITY-NEAR W-L Construction & Paving, Inc. 279 FTE
CITY-NEAR Valley Operator LLC 171 FTE
CITY-NEAR Scholle IPN Chilhowie 156 FTE
CITY-NEAR Food City Store #849 126 FTE
NAT-TCR Barber - Birmingham 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Sun Chemical Rycoline Mfg 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 845 - Washington DC 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Shopko Store #114 (Duluth, MN) 3.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Bent County 225 FTE
NAT-SIZE Minigrip LLC 225 FTE
NAT-SIZE ORD 225 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cristal USA, Inc. Plant 2 225 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.