Hospital · South Carolina

Cherokee Medical Center

Gaffney, SC · ~209 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
4.3
Avg TCR
7.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cherokee Medical Center runs at 57% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Hospital workplace, earning a grade B.

Cherokee Medical Center: 4.3 TCR = 57% of Hospital BLS 7.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cherokee Medical Center safety composite

Cherokee Medical Center 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).

C

70/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 63% 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

Cherokee Medical Center: 2.4 → 8.0 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 8.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Cherokee Medical Center's TCR rose 5.6 from 2.4 in 2021 to 8.0 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 622110 · Gaffney, SC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 4.3 · 57% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #35/95
  • PHOTO North Alabama Medica…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~209 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: North Alabama Medical Center (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cherokee Medical Center in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cherokee Medical Center averages 4.3 TCR (57% of the Hospital BLS benchmark).

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

Cherokee Medical Center TCR series: 2021=2.4 · 2022=2.5 · 2023=4.2 · 2024=8 · BLS 7.5

Where Cherokee Medical Center falls in its industry

6,862 Hospital establishments

Safer than 63% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #35 safest of 95 Hospital employers in South Carolina.

Cherokee Medical Center (209 employees, TCR 4.3) 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 Cherokee Medical Center
Cherokee Medical Center (209 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Cherokee Medical Center has fewer employees than the Hospital 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
2024 8.0 0.0 6 0 0
2023 4.2 1.4 3 0 0
2022 2.5 0.7 2 5 0
2021 2.4 0.7 5 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

622110 · SC · Gaffney

6,862 Hospital employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 68 employers in Gaffney, SC · 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 North Alabama Medical Center 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Santa Rosa Medical Center 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Emerson Hospital 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR South Pointe Hospital 4.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE American Italian Pasta Company 209 FTE
STATE-SIZE Honeywell International 209 FTE
STATE-SIZE Transportation : Mauldin - Trans 209 FTE
STATE-SIZE 9215-SCCHS 209 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nestle Prepared Frozen Foods 1,103 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nestle USA, Inc. 1,019 FTE
CITY-NEAR FCCC-- Main 929 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gaffney 426 FTE
NAT-TCR HDI Landing Gear 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR W Schonbek LLC 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Brookdale Bonita Springs 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR REDDING 4.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Nifco America Corporation Oh Warehouse 209 FTE
NAT-SIZE Aphena Pharma Solutions - Fisk Rd 209 FTE
NAT-SIZE Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of Pearland 209 FTE
NAT-SIZE 175 - Three Rivers 209 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. 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.