General medical and surgical hospitals · Kentucky

Baptist Health Paducah

Paducah, KY · ~1,459 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
5.6
Avg TCR
7.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Baptist Health Paducah runs at 75% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical General medical and surgical hospitals workplace, earning a grade B.

Baptist Health Paducah: 5.6 TCR = 75% of General medical and surgical hospitals BLS 7.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Baptist Health Paducah safety composite

Baptist Health Paducah scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 24%), 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).

D

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Baptist Health Paducah: 3.0 → 7.0 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 7.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.57× in 2024

Baptist Health Paducah's TCR rose 4.0 from 3.0 in 2016 to 7.0 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.57× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade B · TCR 5.6 · 75% of ind

  • DART 3.2 DART
  • RANK #67/141
  • PHOTO Southcoast VNA
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 189 inj
  • SIZE ~1,459 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Southcoast VNA (0.0 TCR gap)

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Baptist Health Paducah in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Baptist Health Paducah averages 5.6 TCR (75% 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 TCR series: 2016=3 · 2018=6.8 · 2024=7 · BLS 7.5

Where Baptist Health Paducah falls in its industry

6,862 General medical and surgical h establishments

Safer than 43% 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 #67 safest of 141 General medical and surgical h employers in Kentucky.

Baptist Health Paducah (1,459 employees, TCR 5.6) 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
Baptist Health Paducah (1,459 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Baptist Health Paducah 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 7.0 3.2 66 13 0
2018 6.8 1.4 85 0 0
2016 3.0 0.7 38 2 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 Southcoast VNA 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR St. Luke's Hospital 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Southside Regional Medical Center 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Emory Hillandale Hospital - EHC 5.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Dart Container Horse Cave 1,450 FTE
STATE-SIZE Logan Aluminum, Inc. 1,472 FTE
STATE-SIZE Magna Bowling Green Metalforming 1,441 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ghent Kentrucky 1,440 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ingram barge Company 2,071 FTE
CITY-NEAR Baptist Health Paducah Hospital 1,605 FTE
CITY-NEAR Baptist Heatlh Paducah 1,398 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lourdes Hospital 1,358 FTE
NAT-TCR Classic Rock Fabrication, LLC - Harrisburg 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Burford Farming Company Inc. 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Kilwin's Quality Confections 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Bensenville 5.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Racine Offices 1,459 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stillwater Medical Center 1,459 FTE
NAT-SIZE New Jersey 1,459 FTE
NAT-SIZE 100 Gamimg 1,460 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, 2018, 2016. 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.