Hospitals, general medical and surgical · Indiana

Community Howard main hospital

Kokomo, IN · ~658 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
6.3
Avg TCR
7.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Community Howard main hospital runs at 84% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Hospitals, general medical and surgical workplace, earning a grade C.

Community Howard main hospital: 6.3 TCR = 84% of Hospitals, general medical and surgical BLS 7.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Community Howard main hospital safety composite

Community Howard main hospital scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 23%), 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

35/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% 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

−0.6

2016→2022

Community Howard main hospital injury rate improved

Community Howard main hospital's TCR fell 0.6 from 6.3 in 2016 to 5.7 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2020 at 8.5 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.52× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=6.3 · 2020=8.5 · 2021=4.6 · 2022=5.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade C · TCR 6.3 · 84% of ind

  • DART 3.3 DART
  • RANK #149/198
  • PHOTO UPMC East
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 118 inj
  • SIZE ~658 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: UPMC East (0.0 TCR gap)

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Community Howard main hospital in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Community Howard main hospital averages 6.3 TCR (84% 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

Community Howard main hospital TCR series: 2016=6.3 · 2020=8.5 · 2021=4.6 · 2022=5.7 · BLS 7.5

Where Community Howard main hospital falls in its industry

6,862 Hospitals, general medical and establishments

Safer than 34% 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 #149 safest of 198 Hospitals, general medical and employers in Indiana.

Community Howard main hospital (658 employees, TCR 6.3) 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 Community Howard main hospital
Community Howard main hospital (658 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Community Howard main hospital 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
2022 5.7 3.3 21 7 0
2021 4.6 1.6 23 0 0
2020 8.5 4.4 27 15 0
2016 6.3 1.5 47 4 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

622110 · IN · Kokomo

6,862 Hospitals, general medical and surgical employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 145 employers in Kokomo, IN · 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 UPMC East 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR LEHIGH REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Avera on Louise Campus 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Emory Johns Creek Hospital -6325 EHC 6.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE AstraZenca Mt. Vernon 658 FTE
STATE-SIZE ELSA LLC 658 FTE
STATE-SIZE 8027605-Heartland Automotive 657 FTE
STATE-SIZE INI16 - 16TH STREET 660 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kokomo Transmission Plant 3,289 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fiat Chrysler Automobiles- Indiana Transmission Plant 1 1,590 FTE
CITY-NEAR Indiana Transmission Plant 1 1,545 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kokomo Casting Plant 1,267 FTE
NAT-TCR Crossroads Care Center 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 547647-Sea-Westwood Sta 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 052390-El Cerrito Po 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR GSI : Paris 6.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE ATC Drivetrain LVT 658 FTE
NAT-SIZE New Wales 658 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stanley Martin Companies, LLC 658 FTE
NAT-SIZE FTP1 658 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, 2016. 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.