General medical and surgical hospitals · Kentucky

Baptist Heatlh Paducah

Paducah, KY · ~1,398 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
4.5
Avg TCR
7.5
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Baptist Heatlh Paducah runs at 61% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical General medical and surgical hospitals workplace, earning a grade B.

Baptist Heatlh Paducah: 4.5 TCR = 61% of General medical and surgical hospitals BLS 7.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Baptist Heatlh Paducah safety composite

Baptist Heatlh Paducah scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 60% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 2%), 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

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 2% 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%).

Baptist Heatlh Paducah held a steady TCR band

Baptist Heatlh Paducah's TCR held near 0.1 from 4.5 in 2019 to 4.6 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 0.37× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=4.5 · 2020=4.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade B · TCR 4.5 · 61% of ind

  • DART 1.7 DART
  • RANK #38/141
  • PHOTO UPMC Children's Hosp…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 106 inj
  • SIZE ~1,398 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh (0.0 TCR gap)

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Baptist Heatlh Paducah in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Baptist Heatlh Paducah averages 4.5 TCR (61% 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 Heatlh Paducah TCR series: 2019=4.5 · 2020=4.6 · BLS 7.5

Where Baptist Heatlh Paducah falls in its industry

6,862 General medical and surgical h establishments

Safer than 60% 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 #38 safest of 141 General medical and surgical h employers in Kentucky.

Baptist Heatlh Paducah (1,398 employees, TCR 4.5) 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 Heatlh Paducah
Baptist Heatlh Paducah (1,398 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Baptist Heatlh Paducah has more employees than the General medical and surgical hospitals median and a lower 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
2020 4.6 1.7 53 4 1
2019 4.5 1.5 53 0 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 UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Grant Medical Center 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ida County Community Hospital Inc 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Albany Memorial Hospital-SPHP-NY 4.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hitachi Automotive Systems Americas, Inc. 1,383 FTE
STATE-SIZE Paschall Truck Lines, Inc 1,416 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dart Container, Inc. of KY 1,424 FTE
STATE-SIZE 6458-NOKY 1,431 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ingram barge Company 2,071 FTE
CITY-NEAR Baptist Health Paducah Hospital 1,605 FTE
CITY-NEAR Baptist Health Paducah 1,459 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lourdes Hospital 1,358 FTE
NAT-TCR Facilitec West 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR A.I. Processors 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Alcon Construction Co., Inc. 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Greenville Place 4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE 707 N Broadway 1,398 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mississippi Reman 1,398 FTE
NAT-SIZE Blue Chip 2000 Commercial Cleaning, Inc. 1,399 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1855-ALMOB1 1,399 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: 2020, 2019. 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.