General Medical and Surgical Hospitals · Indiana

Blackford Hospital

Hartsford City, IN · ~144 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
7.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Blackford Hospital runs at 41% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical General Medical and Surgical Hospitals workplace, earning a grade A.

Blackford Hospital: 3.0 TCR = 41% of General Medical and Surgical Hospitals BLS 7.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Blackford Hospital safety composite

Blackford Hospital scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 91% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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).

B

77/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 3.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% of industry peers

DART rate
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 91% 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

Blackford Hospital: 0.8 → 3.5 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 5.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2023

Blackford Hospital's TCR rose 2.7 from 0.8 in 2017 to 3.5 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2018 at 5.4 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 622110 · Hartsford City, IN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 3.0 · 41% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #44/198
  • PHOTO TJ Health Pavilion
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~144 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: TJ Health Pavilion (0.0 TCR gap)

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Blackford Hospital in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Blackford Hospital averages 3.0 TCR (41% 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

Blackford Hospital TCR series: 2017=0.8 · 2018=5.4 · 2022=2.5 · 2023=3.5 · BLS 7.5

Where Blackford Hospital falls in its industry

6,862 General Medical and Surgical H establishments

Safer than 80% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #44 safest of 198 General Medical and Surgical H employers in Indiana.

Blackford Hospital (144 employees, TCR 3.0) 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 Blackford Hospital
Blackford Hospital (144 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Blackford Hospital has fewer 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
2023 3.5 0.0 0 1 0
2022 2.5 0.0 0 2 0
2018 5.4 2.0 5 3 0
2017 0.8 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

622110 · IN · Hartsford City

6,862 General Medical and Surgical Hospitals employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 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 TJ Health Pavilion 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR WH 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 605 VHS CHILDREN S HOSP OF MICHIGAN INC 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR OR325 PROVIDENCE ST VINCENT EAST PAVILION-MEDI 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Garmong Construction Servies 144 FTE
STATE-SIZE Arc American, Inc. 144 FTE
STATE-SIZE E & B PAVING LLC - Concrete 144 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sales Office 144 FTE
NAT-TCR Blanc Vineyards, LLC 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Cooper Surgical, Inc- Stafford TX 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR St. Bernard Soap 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Deer Creek Lodge 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Cicero #199 144 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tri-City Extrusion 144 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1001 - Park City 144 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4024 Niagara University 144 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, 2018, 2017. 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.