General medical and surgical hospitals · Pennsylvania

Blue Mountain Hospital

Lehighton, PA · ~542 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
14.9
Avg TCR
7.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Blue Mountain Hospital runs at 198% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical General medical and surgical hospitals workplace, earning a grade D.

Blue Mountain Hospital: 14.9 TCR = 198% of General medical and surgical hospitals BLS 7.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Blue Mountain Hospital safety composite

Blue Mountain Hospital scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 1%), 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

14/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 14.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
F 20.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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

Blue Mountain Hospital: 8.8 → 25.2 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 25.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.35× in 2022

Blue Mountain Hospital's TCR rose 16.4 from 8.8 in 2018 to 25.2 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 1.35× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 622110 · Lehighton, PA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 14.9 · 198% of ind

  • DART 20.1 DART
  • RANK #260/262
  • PHOTO PAM Rehabilitation H…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 184 inj
  • SIZE ~542 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: PAM Rehabilitation Hospital of Dover (0.0 TCR gap)

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Blue Mountain Hospital in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Blue Mountain Hospital averages 14.9 TCR (198% 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

Blue Mountain Hospital TCR series: 2018=8.8 · 2019=8.9 · 2020=19.1 · 2021=12.3 · 2022=25.2 · BLS 7.5

Where Blue Mountain Hospital falls in its industry

6,862 General medical and surgical h establishments

Safer than 2% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #260 safest of 262 General medical and surgical h employers in Pennsylvania.

Blue Mountain Hospital (542 employees, TCR 14.9) 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 Blue Mountain Hospital
Blue Mountain Hospital (542 employees, TCR 14.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Blue Mountain 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
2022 25.2 20.1 31 23 0
2021 12.3 9.3 28 29 0
2020 19.1 16.0 50 50 0
2019 8.9 5.8 46 0 0
2018 8.8 6.4 29 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

622110 · PA · Lehighton

6,862 General medical and surgical hospitals employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 34 employers in Lehighton, PA · 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 PAM Rehabilitation Hospital of Dover 14.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 81071015--WALKER BAPTIST MEDICAL CENTER 14.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Allina Health Pharmacy Heart Hospital 14.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Saint Mary Medical Center 14.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Philips Reedsville 1 542 FTE
STATE-SIZE Morgan Truck Body LLC MPA 542 FTE
STATE-SIZE Snyder's Lance Hanover Manufacturing 543 FTE
STATE-SIZE Just Born Incorporated 540 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gnaden Huetten Memorial Hospital 710 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2169 362 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2169 352 FTE
CITY-NEAR LVH-Carbon 209 FTE
NAT-TCR 230425-Bal-Rosedale Br 14.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 115799-Mel-Eau Gallie Br 14.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 255485-Livonia Po 14.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 482217-Dal-Medrano Sta 14.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE AMS Mechanical Systems, Inc 542 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4510 West Point Mill 542 FTE
NAT-SIZE CBI Punta Gorda DC 542 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Step2 Company, LLC 542 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.