General Medical and Surgical Hospitals · North Carolina

0005-Carolinas Med Center - Mercy

Charlotte, NC · ~981 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
8.0
Avg TCR
7.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

0005-Carolinas Med Center - Mercy runs at 107% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical General Medical and Surgical Hospitals workplace, earning a grade C.

0005-Carolinas Med Center - Mercy: 8.0 TCR = 107% of General Medical and Surgical Hospitals BLS 7.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

0005-Carolinas Med Center - Mercy safety composite

0005-Carolinas Med Center - Mercy scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 17%), 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

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% 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%).

Rising injury rate

0005-Carolinas Med Center - Mercy: 7.8 → 8.3 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 8.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.45× in 2018

0005-Carolinas Med Center - Mercy's TCR rose 0.4 from 7.8 in 2016 to 8.3 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.45× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 622110 · Charlotte, NC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 8.0 · 107% of ind

  • DART 3.6 DART
  • RANK #157/175
  • PHOTO Arcadia
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 181 inj
  • SIZE ~981 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Arcadia (0.0 TCR gap)

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0005-Carolinas Med Center - Mercy in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 0005-Carolinas Med Center - Mercy averages 8.0 TCR (107% 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

0005-Carolinas Med Center - Mercy TCR series: 2016=7.8 · 2017=7.9 · 2018=8.3 · BLS 7.5

Where 0005-Carolinas Med Center - Mercy falls in its industry

6,862 General Medical and Surgical H establishments

Safer than 17% 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 #157 safest of 175 General Medical and Surgical H employers in North Carolina.

0005-Carolinas Med Center - Mercy (981 employees, TCR 8.0) 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 02,0004,0006,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate 0005-Carolinas Med Center - Mercy
0005-Carolinas Med Center - Mercy (981 employees, TCR 8.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2

0005-Carolinas Med Center - Mercy 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
2018 8.3 3.6 71 4 0
2017 7.9 3.3 63 11 0
2016 7.8 2.4 47 24 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 Arcadia 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR LCR Broadway Campus 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Houston Methodist Baytown Hospital 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Saint Clares Dover Hospital 8.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Barnhill Contracting Company 982 FTE
STATE-SIZE NC_Charlotte_3140 W. Arrowood Rd._0ACP0530 980 FTE
STATE-SIZE Brunswick Nuclear Plant 986 FTE
STATE-SIZE North Carolina Manufacturing 986 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1101-Carolinas Medical Center (1101) 8,444 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0001-Carolinas Medical Center 8,032 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4795-AA-CLT-CHARLOTTE-CLT-TRML 7,295 FTE
CITY-NEAR Novant Health Presbyterian Medical Center 4,973 FTE
NAT-TCR Topeka Burrito Plant 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Cochran Infiniti of North Hills 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Lawton SNF Operations, LLC D/B/A Montevista 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Jackson Emc - Gwinnett 8.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Rocha Brothers Farms, LLC 981 FTE
NAT-SIZE IL151 981 FTE
NAT-SIZE HCBeck, Ltd 981 FTE
NAT-SIZE City of Newport Beach 981 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: 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.