Group homes, intellectual and developmental disability · Kentucky

Wendell Foster

Owensboro, KY · ~345 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
13.4
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Wendell Foster runs at 354% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Group homes, intellectual and developmental disability workplace, earning a grade F.

Wendell Foster: 13.4 TCR = 354% of Group homes, intellectual and developmental disability BLS 3.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Wendell Foster safety composite

Wendell Foster scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 2%), 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

18/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 13.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

DART rate
F 23.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% 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

Wendell Foster: 7.6 → 24.1 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 24.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.74× in 2020

Wendell Foster's TCR rose 16.5 from 7.6 in 2018 to 24.1 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 1.74× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 623210 · Owensboro, KY ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 13.4 · 354% of ind

  • DART 23.3 DART
  • RANK #18/20
  • PHOTO Yakima Valley School
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 67 inj
  • SIZE ~345 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Yakima Valley School (0.0 TCR gap)

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Wendell Foster in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Wendell Foster averages 13.4 TCR (354% of the Group homes, intellectual and developmental disability BLS benchmark).

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

Wendell Foster TCR series: 2018=7.6 · 2019=8.7 · 2020=24.1 · BLS 3.8

Where Wendell Foster falls in its industry

2,261 Group homes, intellectual and establishments

Safer than 13% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #18 safest of 20 Group homes, intellectual and employers in Kentucky.

Wendell Foster (345 employees, TCR 13.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 5.8 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 0200400600 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Wendell Foster
Wendell Foster (345 employees, TCR 13.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 5.8

Wendell Foster has more employees than the Group homes, intellectual and developmen median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.8. 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
2020 24.1 23.3 20 45 0
2019 8.7 7.8 29 0 0
2018 7.6 5.0 18 3 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

623210 · KY · Owensboro

2,261 Group homes, intellectual and developmental disability employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 184 employers in Owensboro, KY · 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 Yakima Valley School 13.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Community Supports Network, Inc. - Council Bluffs 13.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 81 Willow Lane, Portsmouth, RI 02878 13.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Park West 13.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE 7175_16259 345 FTE
STATE-SIZE Donan 345 FTE
STATE-SIZE Murray 346 FTE
STATE-SIZE Yokohama Industries America 346 FTE
CITY-NEAR Owensboro Health Regional Hospital 2,305 FTE
CITY-NEAR Owensboro Public Schools 969 FTE
CITY-NEAR Owensboro Independent 903 FTE
CITY-NEAR Swedish Match 816 FTE
NAT-TCR Sharp Rees-Stealy-GEN 13.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Medical Examiner'S Office 13.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Condex, Inc. 13.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Brookdale Alhambra 13.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Kosciusko County 345 FTE
NAT-SIZE Active Retirement DBA Jefferson's Ferry 345 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pall Corporation DeLand 345 FTE
NAT-SIZE A#1 Air, Inc 345 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: 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.