Skilled nursing facilities · Washington
Valley Terrace Operations, LLC, DBA Life Care Center of Puyallup
Puyallup, WA · ~166 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.
- F
- Failing Safety Record
- 15.9
- Avg TCR
- 6.5
- Industry avg
- 0
- Fatalities
The verdict
Valley Terrace Operations, LLC, DBA Life Care Center of Puyallup runs at 245% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Skilled nursing facilities workplace, earning a grade F.
- F
- Failing Safety Record
- 15.9
- avg TCR · per 100 workers
- 6.5
- industry benchmark (BLS)
- 32
- recordable injuries tracked
Grade compares Valley Terrace Operations, LLC, DBA Life Care Center of Puyallup's OSHA Total Case Rate of 15.9 to the Skilled nursing facilities BLS benchmark of 6.5 (245% of benchmark) across 3 years of Form 300A filings (2016–2024). <a href="/methodology">See methodology</a> for reporting-limitation caveats.
Injury rate over time
Valley Terrace Operations, LLC, DBA Life Care Center of Puyallup's yearly Total Case Rate, against the 6.5 industry benchmark.
Where Valley Terrace Operations, LLC, DBA Life Care Center of Puyallup falls in its industry
15,832 Skilled nursing facilities establishmentsSafer than 11% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.5.
Narrower to Washington alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #168 safest of 199 Skilled nursing facilities employers in Washington.
Trend analysis for Valley Terrace Operations, LLC, DBA Life Care Center of Puyallup
Between 2020 and 2024, Valley Terrace Operations, LLC, DBA Life Care Center of Puyallup's Total Case Rate worsened from 15.7 to 17.4 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers, a 11% increase across 4 years of OSHA reporting.
The safest year on record was 2023, at a TCR of 14.8, while 2024 saw the highest rate, at 17.4, a spread of 2.6 points between the best and worst reporting years. That's a comparatively narrow spread, suggesting a fairly consistent safety record across the 3 years with a usable rate on file, rather than one outlier year skewing the multi-year average.
Summed across those 3 reporting years, Valley Terrace Operations, LLC, DBA Life Care Center of Puyallup recorded 32 total injuries and illnesses, with no fatalities reported in any of those years. Readers comparing establishments should weigh the 3-year trend above alongside establishment size, since a larger workforce naturally accumulates more raw incidents even at a lower per-100-worker rate.
Verify This Employer with OSHA
The 32 injuries, 7 illnesses shown on this page for Valley Terrace Operations, LLC, DBA Life Care Center of Puyallup are sourced from its own 3 years of mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source, name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.
Verify on OSHA Establishment SearchSource: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 623110 - Skilled nursing facilities.
DART Rate, Transparent Calculation (2024)
What is the DART rate formula?
DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.
13 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 172,521 hours worked = 15.07 DART
Methodology: 29 CFR 1904, OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping
Cross-Validating Context, Establishment vs Industry vs State
| Benchmark | TCR | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Valley Terrace Operations, LLC, DBA Life Care Center of Puyallup (this establishment) | 15.95 | OSHA ITA Form 300A, 3-year avg |
| Skilled nursing facilities industry avg | 6.50 | BLS IIF, NAICS 623110 |
| Washington state avg (all industries) | 6.20 | OSHA ITA, state-level rollup |
Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program
Reportable Incident Timeline
Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by Valley Terrace Operations, LLC, DBA Life Care Center of Puyallup to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.
- 2024: 15 reportable incidents · 15 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2023: 9 reportable incidents · 9 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2020: 15 reportable incidents · 8 injuries, 7 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) - inspection case-number records
Year-by-Year Safety Data
| Year | TCR | DART | Injuries | Illnesses | Fatalities |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 17.4 | 15.1 | 15 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 14.8 | 13.2 | 9 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 15.7 | 14.6 | 8 | 7 | 0 |
What this grade means for you
Use this grade as a relative read on Valley Terrace Operations, LLC, DBA Life Care Center of Puyallup's reported OSHA injury record versus its Skilled nursing facilities peers, not a verdict on whether any single site is safe today.
- At 245% of the Skilled nursing facilities benchmark, Valley Terrace Operations, LLC, DBA Life Care Center of Puyallup reports more injuries than typical peers, ask specifically how the employer is reducing them. Know your rights
- Judge this record against the wider Skilled nursing facilities sector, where injury rates vary widely, before comparing it in isolation. See the industry
- Grades reflect 2016–2024 filings; check the latest establishment record straight from OSHA, or look up a different employer. Look up another
Safety grades reflect employers' self-reported OSHA Form 300A filings from 2016 to 2024 and can lag current conditions. A grade is not a guarantee that any specific workplace is safe or unsafe today. See our methodology and disclaimer.
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Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.