Hospitals, general medical and surgical · North Carolina

Catawba Valley Medical Center

Hickory, NC · ~2,012 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
6.8
Avg TCR
7.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Catawba Valley Medical Center runs at 91% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Hospitals, general medical and surgical workplace, earning a grade C.

Catawba Valley Medical Center: 6.8 TCR = 91% of Hospitals, general medical and surgical BLS 7.5 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Catawba Valley Medical Center safety composite

Catawba Valley Medical Center scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 56% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 28%), 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

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.7

2016→2023

Catawba Valley Medical Center injury rate improved

Catawba Valley Medical Center's TCR fell 0.7 from 6.8 in 2016 to 6.1 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2019 at 8.5 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.21× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=6.8 · 2018=8.2 · 2019=8.5 · 2020=7.4 · 2021=6.4 · 2022=4.3 · 2023=6.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 622110 · Hickory, NC AT/BELOW-IND · LARGE

Grade C · TCR 6.8 · 91% of ind

  • DART 1.5 DART
  • RANK #139/175
  • PHOTO AdventHealth Celebra…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 770 inj
  • SIZE ~2,012 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: AdventHealth Celebration (0.0 TCR gap)

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Catawba Valley Medical Center in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Catawba Valley Medical Center averages 6.8 TCR (91% of the Hospitals, general medical and surgical BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Catawba Valley Medical Center TCR series: 2016=6.8 · 2018=8.2 · 2019=8.5 · 2020=7.4 · 2021=6.4 · 2022=4.3 · 2023=6.1 · BLS 7.5

Where Catawba Valley Medical Center falls in its industry

6,862 Hospitals, general medical and establishments

Safer than 28% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #139 safest of 175 Hospitals, general medical and employers in North Carolina.

Catawba Valley Medical Center (2,012 employees, TCR 6.8) 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 Catawba Valley Medical Center
Catawba Valley Medical Center (2,012 employees, TCR 6.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Catawba Valley Medical Center has more employees than the Hospitals, general medical and surgical 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
2023 6.1 1.5 105 0 0
2022 4.3 0.9 70 1 0
2021 6.4 1.9 105 1 0
2020 7.4 2.3 123 0 0
2019 8.5 3.4 140 0 0
2018 8.2 3.1 128 2 0
2016 6.8 1.0 99 8 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

622110 · NC · Hickory

6,862 Hospitals, general medical and surgical employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 240 employers in Hickory, NC · 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 AdventHealth Celebration 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 741 ABRAZO CENTRAL CAMPUS 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sparta Community Hospital 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR California Pacific Medical Center (274-CC-VNG) 6.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : CLT2 2,000 FTE
STATE-SIZE Duke Raleigh Hospital 1,984 FTE
STATE-SIZE Goodyear Fayetteville 2,044 FTE
STATE-SIZE Daimler Truck North America - Cleveland Truck Plant 2,046 FTE
CITY-NEAR Merchants Distributors LLC 1,480 FTE
CITY-NEAR Frye Regional Medical Center 1,363 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hickory Manufacturing & Technology Center 1,006 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hickory Cable Plant 958 FTE
NAT-TCR Morris Fire Protection & Ambulance District 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 4218/3239 - Plano Crossdock 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR B&G 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR LeafGuard of Greenville 6.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE WellSpan Chambersburg Hospital 2,012 FTE
NAT-SIZE Longview - GSMC 155 2,011 FTE
NAT-SIZE Columbus (Ohtra) 2,013 FTE
NAT-SIZE Midland Memorial Hospital 2,011 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 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.