General Medical and Surgical Hospitals · North Carolina

0001-Carolinas Medical Center

Charlotte, NC · ~8,032 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
6.0
Avg TCR
7.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

0001-Carolinas Medical Center runs at 79% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical General Medical and Surgical Hospitals workplace, earning a grade B.

0001-Carolinas Medical Center: 6.0 TCR = 79% of General Medical and Surgical Hospitals BLS 7.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

0001-Carolinas Medical Center safety composite

0001-Carolinas Medical Center scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 31%), 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).

D

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

−1.2

2016→2020

0001-Carolinas Medical Center injury rate improved

0001-Carolinas Medical Center's TCR fell 1.2 from 7.7 in 2016 to 6.5 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2016 at 7.7 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.45× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=7.7 · 2017=5.7 · 2018=5.2 · 2019=4.6 · 2020=6.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 622110 · Charlotte, NC AT/BELOW-IND · LARGE

Grade B · TCR 6.0 · 79% of ind

  • DART 2.7 DART
  • RANK #120/175
  • PHOTO HCA Florida Lake Cit…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 1,590 inj
  • SIZE ~8,032 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: HCA Florida Lake City Hospital (0.0 TCR gap)

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0001-Carolinas Medical Center in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 0001-Carolinas Medical Center averages 6.0 TCR (79% of the General Medical and Surgical Hospitals BLS benchmark).

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

0001-Carolinas Medical Center TCR series: 2016=7.7 · 2017=5.7 · 2018=5.2 · 2019=4.6 · 2020=6.5 · BLS 7.5

Where 0001-Carolinas Medical Center falls in its industry

6,862 General Medical and Surgical H establishments

Safer than 38% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #120 safest of 175 General Medical and Surgical H employers in North Carolina.

0001-Carolinas Medical Center (8,032 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2 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 02,0004,0006,0008,00010,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate 0001-Carolinas Medical Center
0001-Carolinas Medical Center (8,032 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2

0001-Carolinas Medical Center has more employees than the General Medical and Surgical Hospitals median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.2. 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 6.5 2.7 313 129 0
2019 4.6 1.7 284 31 0
2018 5.2 1.8 319 32 0
2017 5.7 2.0 331 62 0
2016 7.7 2.3 343 188 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

622110 · NC · Charlotte

6,862 General Medical and Surgical Hospitals employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 2,058 employers in Charlotte, NC · 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 HCA Florida Lake City Hospital 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sarah D Culbertson Memorial Hospital 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jefferson Hospital Stratford 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Warm Springs Rehabilitation Hospital of Westover Hills 6.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Mission Hospital; MH Hospital Manager, LLC 8,097 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1101-Carolinas Medical Center (1101) 8,444 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4795-AA-CLT-CHARLOTTE-CLT-TRML 7,295 FTE
STATE-SIZE UNC Rex Healthcare 7,282 FTE
CITY-NEAR Novant Health Presbyterian Medical Center 4,973 FTE
CITY-NEAR 5101-Atrium Health Corporate Allocated (5101) 4,901 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1004-Corporate Operations 4,829 FTE
CITY-NEAR North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : CLT4 4,292 FTE
NAT-TCR Mc Automotive DBA Montrose Mazda Kent 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR ADDA - Piscataway 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 4769-980-Pottery Barn Kids 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR California Sun Grower Services - South 6.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE University of Nevada, Las Vegas 8,018 FTE
NAT-SIZE Houston Methodist Hospital - Texas Medical Center 7,983 FTE
NAT-SIZE UC Santa Cruz 8,081 FTE
NAT-SIZE University of Maryland Medical Center 7,980 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, 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.