General medical and surgical hospitals · Kentucky

Baptist Health Hardin

Elizabethtown, KY · ~2,058 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
7.0
Avg TCR
7.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Baptist Health Hardin runs at 93% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical General medical and surgical hospitals workplace, earning a grade C.

Baptist Health Hardin: 7.0 TCR = 93% of General medical and surgical hospitals BLS 7.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Baptist Health Hardin safety composite

Baptist Health Hardin scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 23%), 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

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% 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

−2.2

2021→2024

Baptist Health Hardin injury rate improved

Baptist Health Hardin's TCR fell 2.2 from 8.8 in 2021 to 6.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 8.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.47× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=8.8 · 2022=5.6 · 2023=7.1 · 2024=6.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 622110 · Elizabethtown, KY AT/BELOW-IND · LARGE

Grade C · TCR 7.0 · 93% of ind

  • DART 3.3 DART
  • RANK #100/141
  • PHOTO Newport Hospital
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 309 inj
  • SIZE ~2,058 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Newport Hospital (0.0 TCR gap)

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Baptist Health Hardin in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Baptist Health Hardin averages 7.0 TCR (93% 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

Baptist Health Hardin TCR series: 2021=8.8 · 2022=5.6 · 2023=7.1 · 2024=6.6 · BLS 7.5

Where Baptist Health Hardin falls in its industry

6,862 General medical and surgical h establishments

Safer than 25% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #100 safest of 141 General medical and surgical h employers in Kentucky.

Baptist Health Hardin (2,058 employees, TCR 7.0) 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 Baptist Health Hardin
Baptist Health Hardin (2,058 employees, TCR 7.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Baptist Health Hardin 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 6.6 3.3 87 11 0
2023 7.1 3.6 82 17 0
2022 5.6 2.5 70 2 0
2021 8.8 5.6 70 24 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

622110 · KY · Elizabethtown

6,862 General medical and surgical hospitals employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 130 employers in Elizabethtown, KY · 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 Newport Hospital 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 08880201 SOUTH BAY MEDICAL CENTER 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR St. Mary's Medical Center 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Parkview DeKalb Memorial Hospital 7.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Norton Audubon Hospital AUD 2,069 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ingram barge Company 2,071 FTE
STATE-SIZE North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : SDF9 2,077 FTE
STATE-SIZE Norton Women's and Children's Hospital NWCH 1,990 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hardin Memorial Hospital 2,311 FTE
CITY-NEAR Metalsa 1,807 FTE
CITY-NEAR Etown 956 FTE
CITY-NEAR Communicare, Inc. 849 FTE
NAT-TCR UP Health System - Marquette - EVS 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR AHL Simi Valley 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Kennewick 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Byco Enterprises, Inc 7.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE United Regional Health Care System 2,059 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stryker Medical 2,059 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cargill Meat Solutions 2,059 FTE
NAT-SIZE Chesapeake Regional Medical Center 2,059 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, 2022, 2021. 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.