General medical and surgical hospitals · Kentucky

Baptist Health Paducah Hospital

Paducah, KY · ~1,605 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
8.6
Avg TCR
7.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Baptist Health Paducah Hospital runs at 115% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical General medical and surgical hospitals workplace, earning a grade C.

Baptist Health Paducah Hospital: 8.6 TCR = 115% of General medical and surgical hospitals BLS 7.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Baptist Health Paducah Hospital safety composite

Baptist Health Paducah Hospital scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 13%), 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

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.63 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%).

TCR Δ

−4.3

2021→2023

Baptist Health Paducah Hospital injury rate improved

Baptist Health Paducah Hospital's TCR fell 4.3 from 10.9 in 2021 to 6.6 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 10.9 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.42× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=10.9 · 2022=8.3 · 2023=6.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 622110 · Paducah, KY ABOVE-IND · LARGE

Grade C · TCR 8.6 · 115% of ind

  • DART 3.6 DART
  • RANK #123/141
  • PHOTO HCA Florida Putnam H…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 168 inj
  • SIZE ~1,605 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: HCA Florida Putnam Hospital (0.0 TCR gap)

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Baptist Health Paducah Hospital in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Baptist Health Paducah Hospital averages 8.6 TCR (115% 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 Paducah Hospital TCR series: 2021=10.9 · 2022=8.3 · 2023=6.6 · BLS 7.5

Where Baptist Health Paducah Hospital falls in its industry

6,862 General medical and surgical h establishments

Safer than 13% 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 #123 safest of 141 General medical and surgical h employers in Kentucky.

Baptist Health Paducah Hospital (1,605 employees, TCR 8.6) 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 Paducah Hospital
Baptist Health Paducah Hospital (1,605 employees, TCR 8.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Baptist Health Paducah 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
2023 6.6 3.6 53 20 0
2022 8.3 3.1 65 28 0
2021 10.9 5.2 50 9 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

622110 · KY · Paducah

6,862 General medical and surgical hospitals employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 198 employers in Paducah, 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 HCA Florida Putnam Hospital 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Robert Packer Hospital Towanda Campus 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Saint Elizabeth Medical Center 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Saint Francis Hospital 8.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Norton Childrens Hospital 1,601 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lexmark - Lexington 1,596 FTE
STATE-SIZE Norton Brownsboro Hospital NBH 1,627 FTE
STATE-SIZE North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : LEX2 1,580 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ingram barge Company 2,071 FTE
CITY-NEAR Baptist Health Paducah 1,459 FTE
CITY-NEAR Baptist Heatlh Paducah 1,398 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lourdes Hospital 1,358 FTE
NAT-TCR Saint Elizabeth Medical Center 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR WPAX 1953 (Alburtis - F) 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Ansley Park Health and Rehabilitation 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Big Lots Store #5359 Snellville, GA 8.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE 2545SCHOE 1,605 FTE
NAT-SIZE P&W Columbus, Georgia Site 1,605 FTE
NAT-SIZE Polaris Industries 1,604 FTE
NAT-SIZE The William W Backus Hospital 1,604 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: 2023, 2022, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.