Nursing homes · Iowa

Westwood Specialty Care

Sioux City, IA · ~76 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
4.1
Avg TCR
6.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Westwood Specialty Care runs at 63% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Nursing homes workplace, earning a grade B.

Westwood Specialty Care: 4.1 TCR = 63% of Nursing homes BLS 6.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Westwood Specialty Care safety composite

Westwood Specialty Care scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 74% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 42%), 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

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% of industry peers

DART rate
D 4.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% 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

Westwood Specialty Care: 3.9 → 7.2 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 7.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.04× in 2023

Westwood Specialty Care's TCR rose 3.2 from 3.9 in 2016 to 7.2 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.04× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 623110 · Sioux City, IA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 4.1 · 63% of ind

  • DART 4.3 DART
  • RANK #80/396
  • PHOTO Life Care Center of …
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~76 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Life Care Center of Tucson (0.0 TCR gap)

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Westwood Specialty Care in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Westwood Specialty Care averages 4.1 TCR (63% of the Nursing homes BLS benchmark).

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

Westwood Specialty Care TCR series: 2016=3.9 · 2017=5.4 · 2019=0 · 2023=7.2 · BLS 6.5

Where Westwood Specialty Care falls in its industry

15,252 Nursing homes establishments

Safer than 74% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #80 safest of 396 Nursing homes employers in Iowa.

Westwood Specialty Care (76 employees, TCR 4.1) 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 Westwood Specialty Care
Westwood Specialty Care (76 employees, TCR 4.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 106 employees and a TCR of 6.6

Westwood Specialty Care has fewer employees than the Nursing homes 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
2023 7.2 4.3 5 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 5.4 2.7 4 0 0
2016 3.9 2.6 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

623110 · IA · Sioux City

15,252 Nursing homes employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 259 employers in Sioux City, IA · 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 Life Care Center of Tucson 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Manor Care Health Services - Boynton Beach 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rockwell Community Nursing Home, Inc 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bria of Geneva 4.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE NEW HAMPTON NURSING & REHABILITATION CTR 76 FTE
STATE-SIZE Boys and Girls Home and Family Services, Inc. 76 FTE
STATE-SIZE Des Moines 137 76 FTE
STATE-SIZE SOUTH DES MOINES STA_1382146 76 FTE
CITY-NEAR Seaboard Triumph Foods 2,375 FTE
CITY-NEAR SeaboardTriumph Foods 1,896 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Luke's Regional Medical Center 1,201 FTE
CITY-NEAR Smithfield Packaged Meats Corp 691 FTE
NAT-TCR Sprague Elementary School 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Big Lots Store #5094 Parma, OH 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Wayfield Foods Store 19 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Mercersburg Academy 4.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE International Marine Products - Los Angeles 76 FTE
NAT-SIZE DED - Wegmans 76 FTE
NAT-SIZE BrandSafway Services, LLC - Seattle Branch 76 FTE
NAT-SIZE Roseville Precision, Incorporated 76 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: 2023, 2019, 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.