General Medical and Surgical Hospitals · Connecticut

Backus Hospital

Norwich, CT · ~1,819 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
9.4
Avg TCR
7.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Backus Hospital runs at 126% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical General Medical and Surgical Hospitals workplace, earning a grade D.

Backus Hospital: 9.4 TCR = 126% of General Medical and Surgical Hospitals BLS 7.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Backus Hospital safety composite

Backus Hospital scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 9%), 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

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% 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

−1.6

2023→2024

Backus Hospital injury rate improved

Backus Hospital's TCR fell 1.6 from 10.2 in 2023 to 8.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 10.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.6× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=10.2 · 2024=8.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 622110 · Norwich, CT ABOVE-IND · LARGE

Grade D · TCR 9.4 · 126% of ind

  • DART 5.7 DART
  • RANK #80/86
  • PHOTO Sharp Memorial Hospi…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 159 inj
  • SIZE ~1,819 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sharp Memorial Hospital - 7901 Frost Street (0.0 TCR gap)

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Backus Hospital in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Backus Hospital averages 9.4 TCR (126% 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

Backus Hospital TCR series: 2023=10.2 · 2024=8.6 · BLS 7.5

Where Backus Hospital falls in its industry

6,862 General Medical and Surgical H establishments

Safer than 9% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Connecticut alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #80 safest of 86 General Medical and Surgical H employers in Connecticut.

Backus Hospital (1,819 employees, TCR 9.4) 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 Backus Hospital
Backus Hospital (1,819 employees, TCR 9.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Backus Hospital 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
2024 8.6 5.7 73 50 0
2023 10.2 6.5 86 50 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

622110 · CT · Norwich

6,862 General Medical and Surgical Hospitals employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,008 rated employers in Connecticut with headcount on file · 63 employers in Norwich, CT · 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 Sharp Memorial Hospital - 7901 Frost Street 9.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2576-26 9.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Our Lady of Fatima Hospital 9.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR St. Luke's Elmore Medical Center 9.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Griffin Hospital 1,811 FTE
STATE-SIZE CT Children's Medical Center 1 1,894 FTE
STATE-SIZE AffinEco, LLC 1,740 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eastern CT State University 1,728 FTE
CITY-NEAR The William W Backus Hospital 1,604 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Arc Eastern Connecticut 467 FTE
CITY-NEAR SNE Southern New England 329 FTE
CITY-NEAR Five Star Supermarket of Norwich, Inc. 255 FTE
NAT-TCR East Coast Welding and Fabrication, LLC 9.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Moundville Health and Rehabilitation, LLC 9.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Glenshaw 9.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Delivery Station 9.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE FL_Riverview_4145 S Falkenburg Road_HB610112 1,819 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - BFL2 1,819 FTE
NAT-SIZE AMO Manufacturing INC 1,819 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - BWI5 1,820 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: 2024, 2023. 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.