General medical and surgical hospitals · Massachusetts

BWH - Baystate Wing Hospital

Palmer, MA · ~668 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
7.0
Avg TCR
7.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

BWH - Baystate Wing Hospital runs at 93% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical General medical and surgical hospitals workplace, earning a grade C.

BWH - Baystate Wing Hospital: 7.0 TCR = 93% of General medical and surgical hospitals BLS 7.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

BWH - Baystate Wing Hospital safety composite

BWH - Baystate Wing Hospital scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 9%), 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

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% 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

BWH - Baystate Wing Hospital: 3.9 → 8.6 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 9.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.83× in 2024

BWH - Baystate Wing Hospital's TCR rose 4.7 from 3.9 in 2020 to 8.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 9.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.83× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 622110 · Palmer, MA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 7.0 · 93% of ind

  • DART 5.8 DART
  • RANK #65/87
  • PHOTO Westerly Hospital
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 131 inj
  • SIZE ~668 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Westerly Hospital (0.0 TCR gap)

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BWH - Baystate Wing Hospital in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows BWH - Baystate Wing Hospital averages 7.0 TCR (93% 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

BWH - Baystate Wing Hospital TCR series: 2020=3.9 · 2021=7.5 · 2022=9.3 · 2023=5.8 · 2024=8.6 · BLS 7.5

Where BWH - Baystate Wing Hospital falls in its industry

6,862 General medical and surgical h establishments

Safer than 25% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #65 safest of 87 General medical and surgical h employers in Massachusetts.

BWH - Baystate Wing Hospital (668 employees, TCR 7.0) 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 BWH - Baystate Wing Hospital
BWH - Baystate Wing Hospital (668 employees, TCR 7.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2

BWH - Baystate Wing 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
2024 8.6 5.8 36 4 0
2023 5.8 4.0 23 6 0
2022 9.3 7.0 31 14 0
2021 7.5 4.3 28 7 0
2020 3.9 3.5 13 7 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

622110 · MA · Palmer

6,862 General medical and surgical hospitals employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 27 employers in Palmer, MA · 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 Westerly Hospital 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Bellevue Hospital 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Winchester Medical Center 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR ILARL009 ASCENSION HEALTH ST ALEXIUS MEDICAL CENTER 7.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Franklin 50 670 FTE
STATE-SIZE Delaware North Companies, Inc. - Boston 670 FTE
STATE-SIZE Brighton HQ 665 FTE
STATE-SIZE Blount Fine Foods-Fall River 674 FTE
CITY-NEAR WMH - Wing Memorial Hospital 676 FTE
CITY-NEAR Northern Tree Service, LLC 189 FTE
CITY-NEAR Northern General Contractors Inc 168 FTE
CITY-NEAR Big Y Foods, Inc. Palmer 134 FTE
NAT-TCR HCR Inc. dba Halo Hospice 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Nexus5 Group, LLC 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Winchester Medical Center 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Plainville Store 7.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE City of Clovis 668 FTE
NAT-SIZE United Forming Inc. 668 FTE
NAT-SIZE Phoenix, Az 668 FTE
NAT-SIZE Arts and Culture H400 668 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, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020. 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.