Baptist Health Medical Center - Little Rock
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LITTLE ROCK, AR | General medical and surgical hospitals
~2,500 avg employees | 7 years of OSHA data
Baptist Health Medical Center - Little Rock has an average TCR of 6.7, which is 89% of the industry average (7.5) for General medical and surgical hospitals. This is better than average.
Safety Insights for Baptist Health Medical Center - Little Rock
Baptist Health Medical Center - Little Rock operates an establishment with approximately 2,500 full-time equivalent workers in LITTLE ROCK, AR, classified under the General medical and surgical hospitals industry (NAICS 622110). Across 7 years of mandatory OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA) reporting, this employer has accumulated 1,173 recordable injuries, 39 occupational illnesses, and 0 workplace fatalities. The average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 6.7 injuries per 100 full-time workers per year provides the anchor metric for the C letter grade (Average Safety Record).
Benchmarked against the Bureau of Labor Statistics industry average of 7.5 for General medical and surgical hospitals, Baptist Health Medical Center - Little Rock's workforce experiences 89% of the typical injury burden. This ratio matters because TCR already normalizes for hours worked — a 200,000-hour exposure base equals roughly 100 full-time workers — so establishments with very different headcounts can be compared directly. A TCR below the benchmark signals that controls, training, or automation may be outperforming peers.
Multi-year trend analysis is the single most reliable signal here: a one-year spike could reflect a single severe event, whereas sustained elevation across 7 reporting cycles points to systemic hazard exposure. Readers evaluating Baptist Health Medical Center - Little Rock as an employer, contractor, investment, or regulatory target should examine the yearly DART rate (days away, restricted, or transferred), the fatality count of 0, and any year-over-year deterioration shown in the table below. All figures come directly from employer-submitted OSHA Form 300A summaries — there is no modeling, estimation, or third-party adjustment layered on top of the government data.
Verify This Employer with OSHA
All injury, illness, and fatality figures on this page are sourced from Baptist Health Medical Center - Little Rock's own 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.
Verify on OSHA Establishment SearchSource: U.S. Department of Labor — OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 622110 — General medical and surgical hospitals.
DART Rate — Transparent Calculation (2024)
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.
34 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 4,998,172 hours worked = 1.36 DART
Methodology: 29 CFR 1904 — OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping
Cross-Validating Context — Establishment vs Industry vs State
| Benchmark | TCR | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Baptist Health Medical Center - Little Rock (this establishment) | 6.66 | OSHA ITA Form 300A, 7-year avg |
| Hospitals, general medical and surgical industry avg | 7.50 | BLS IIF, NAICS 622110 |
| Arkansas state avg (all industries) | 12.86 | 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 Baptist Health Medical Center - Little Rock 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.
- 2024: 155 reportable incidents · 155 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities — OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2023: 183 reportable incidents · 183 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities — OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2022: 174 reportable incidents · 173 injuries, 1 illnesses, 0 fatalities — OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2021: 160 reportable incidents · 155 injuries, 5 illnesses, 0 fatalities — OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2020: 164 reportable incidents · 131 injuries, 33 illnesses, 0 fatalities — OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2019: 179 reportable incidents · 179 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities — OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2018: 197 reportable incidents · 197 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities — OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) — inspection case-number records
Year-by-Year Safety Data
| Year | TCR | DART | Injuries | Illnesses | Fatalities |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 6.2 | 1.4 | 155 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 7.2 | 1.1 | 183 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 6.5 | 1.9 | 173 | 1 | 0 |
| 2021 | 6.1 | 1.6 | 155 | 5 | 0 |
| 2020 | 6.3 | 2.6 | 131 | 33 | 0 |
| 2019 | 6.8 | 1.2 | 179 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | 7.5 | 1.9 | 197 | 0 | 0 |
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