Nursing homes · Ohio

Whetstone Gardens Care Center

Columbus, OH · ~150 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

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

Whetstone Gardens Care Center runs at 99% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Nursing homes workplace, earning a grade C.

Whetstone Gardens Care Center: 6.5 TCR = 99% of Nursing homes BLS 6.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Whetstone Gardens Care Center safety composite

Whetstone Gardens Care Center scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 78% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% of industry peers

DART rate
B 1.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.7

2016→2021

Whetstone Gardens Care Center injury rate improved

Whetstone Gardens Care Center's TCR fell 0.7 from 1.8 in 2016 to 1.1 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 22.4 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.16× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=1.8 · 2017=0.6 · 2020=22.4 · 2021=1.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 623110 · Columbus, OH AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 6.5 · 99% of ind

  • DART 1.1 DART
  • RANK #552/1074
  • PHOTO Boynton Beach Rehabi…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~150 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Boynton Beach Rehabilitation Center (0.0 TCR gap)

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Whetstone Gardens Care Center in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Whetstone Gardens Care Center averages 6.5 TCR (99% of the Nursing homes BLS benchmark).

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

Whetstone Gardens Care Center TCR series: 2016=1.8 · 2017=0.6 · 2020=22.4 · 2021=1.1 · BLS 6.5

Where Whetstone Gardens Care Center falls in its industry

15,252 Nursing homes establishments

Safer than 51% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #552 safest of 1074 Nursing homes employers in Ohio.

Whetstone Gardens Care Center (150 employees, TCR 6.5) 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 Whetstone Gardens Care Center
Whetstone Gardens Care Center (150 employees, TCR 6.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 106 employees and a TCR of 6.6

Whetstone Gardens Care Center has more 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
2021 1.1 1.1 1 0 0
2020 22.4 21.5 1 24 0
2017 0.6 0.6 1 0 0
2016 1.8 1.8 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

623110 · OH · Columbus

15,252 Nursing homes employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 1,500 employers in Columbus, OH · 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 Boynton Beach Rehabilitation Center 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Redwood LTC Group, LLC d/b/a NorthChase Nursing & Rehabilitation Center 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bayside Health & Rehabilitation Center 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR I27 ACCELERATE SKILLED NURSING REHAB 6.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE The Chef's Garden Inc 150 FTE
STATE-SIZE South Central Power Co. - Lancaster 150 FTE
STATE-SIZE EverDry Waterproofing 150 FTE
STATE-SIZE Meijer Manufacturing 812 150 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nationwide Children's Hospital 13,367 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nationwide Children's Hospital Main Campus 10,116 FTE
CITY-NEAR Riverside Methodist Hospital 9,759 FTE
CITY-NEAR North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : CMH1 5,057 FTE
NAT-TCR A.M. Cohron & Son, Inc. 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Energy Absorption Systems 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Library Square VLC 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Anthony Community Care Center 6.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Winona Foods Inc. - Lineville 150 FTE
NAT-SIZE BK Medical - Peabody 150 FTE
NAT-SIZE Benson Systems 150 FTE
NAT-SIZE Benewah Community Hospital 150 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: 2021, 2020, 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.