Employer · Minnesota

Abbott Northwestern Hospital

Minneapolis, MN · ~6,106 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
14.2
Avg TCR
7.5
Industry avg
1
Fatality

The verdict

Abbott Northwestern Hospital runs at 189% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade D.

D
Poor Safety Record
14.2
avg TCR · per 100 workers
7.5
industry benchmark (BLS)
1
worker fatalities on record

Grade compares Abbott Northwestern Hospital's OSHA Total Case Rate of 14.2 to the industry BLS benchmark of 7.5 (189% of benchmark) across 6 years of Form 300A filings (2016–2024). <a href="/methodology">See methodology</a> for reporting-limitation caveats.

Injury rate over time

Abbott Northwestern Hospital's yearly Total Case Rate, against the 7.5 industry benchmark.

51015202530 201920202021202220232024 9.57.5 Industry benchmarkAbbott Northwestern Hospital TCR
Total Case Rate (recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers), OSHA ITA Form 300A. Industry benchmark: BLS IIF, NAICS 622110.

Where Abbott Northwestern Hospital falls in its industry

7,181 industry establishments

Safer than 2% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #236 safest of 261 industry employers in Minnesota.

Trend analysis for Abbott Northwestern Hospital

Between 2019 and 2024, Abbott Northwestern Hospital's Total Case Rate held roughly steady from 9.5 to 9.5 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers, a 0% change across 5 years of OSHA reporting.

The safest year on record was 2023, at a TCR of 7.2, while 2022 saw the highest rate, at 27.3, a spread of 20.1 points between the best and worst reporting years. That's a wide swing relative to the establishment's overall rate, worth checking the year-by-year table below for whether a single severe year is driving the average, rather than a sustained trend.

Summed across those 6 reporting years, Abbott Northwestern Hospital recorded 2,757 total injuries and illnesses and 1 fatality. Readers comparing establishments should weigh the 6-year trend above alongside establishment size, since a larger workforce naturally accumulates more raw incidents even at a lower per-100-worker rate.

Verify This Employer with OSHA

The 2,757 injuries, 1,114 illnesses, and 1 fatality shown on this page for Abbott Northwestern Hospital are sourced from its own 6 years of mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source, name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.

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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 622110 - industry classification.

DART Rate, Transparent Calculation (2024)

What is the DART rate formula?

DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.

289 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 9,303,562 hours worked = 6.21 DART

Methodology: 29 CFR 1904, OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping

Cross-Validating Context, Establishment vs Industry vs State

Benchmark TCR Source
Abbott Northwestern Hospital (this establishment) 14.17 OSHA ITA Form 300A, 6-year avg
Hospitals, general medical and surgical industry avg 7.50 BLS IIF, NAICS 622110
Minnesota state avg (all industries) 5.18 OSHA ITA, state-level rollup

Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program

Reportable Incident Timeline

Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by Abbott Northwestern Hospital to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.

Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) - inspection case-number records

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2024 9.5 6.2 442 0 0
2023 7.2 4.0 301 27 0
2022 27.3 22.8 467 766 1
2021 15.5 9.9 497 218 0
2020 16.0 13.2 614 103 0
2019 9.5 4.8 436 0 0

What this grade means for you

Use this grade as a relative read on Abbott Northwestern Hospital's reported OSHA injury record versus its industry peers, not a verdict on whether any single site is safe today.

  • At 189% of the industry benchmark, Abbott Northwestern Hospital reports more injuries than typical peers, ask specifically how the employer is reducing them. Know your rights
  • Judge this record against the wider industry sector, where injury rates vary widely, before comparing it in isolation. See the industry
  • Grades reflect 2016–2024 filings; check the latest establishment record straight from OSHA, or look up a different employer. Look up another

Safety grades reflect employers' self-reported OSHA Form 300A filings from 2016 to 2024 and can lag current conditions. A grade is not a guarantee that any specific workplace is safe or unsafe today. See our methodology and disclaimer.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Abbott Northwestern Hospital's safety grade?
Abbott Northwestern Hospital has a safety grade of D (Poor Safety Record). This grade is based on their average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 14.2 compared to the BLS industry benchmark of 7.5 for their industry.
How many injuries has Abbott Northwestern Hospital reported?
Abbott Northwestern Hospital has reported 2,757 total injuries and 1 fatalities across 6 years of OSHA data (2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019). This data comes from mandatory OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA) reports.

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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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. 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. Retrieved and formatted by PlainSafetyScore Editorial

Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.