General medical and surgical hospitals · Ohio

Defiance Hospital

Name: Defiance Hospital Workplace Safety Data
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Defiance, OH · ~173 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

B
Good Safety Record: 6.0
Avg TCR: 7.5
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Defiance Hospital runs at 79% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical General medical and surgical hospitals workplace, earning a grade B.

Defiance Hospital: 6.0 TCR = 79% of General medical and surgical hospitals BLS 7.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Defiance Hospital safety composite

Defiance Hospital scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 18%), 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).

35/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): D 5.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers
DART rate: F 3.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% 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

Defiance Hospital: 2.2 → 5.9 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 9.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.62× in 2018

Defiance Hospital's TCR rose 3.7 from 2.2 in 2016 to 5.9 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 9.7 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.62× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 622110 · Defiance, OH AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 6.0 · 79% of ind

DART 3.7 DART
RANK #277/352
PHOTO HCA Florida Lake Cit…
BOOK 3y book
INJ 15 inj
SIZE ~173 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: HCA Florida Lake City Hospital (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Defiance Hospital averages 6.0 TCR (79% of the General medical and surgical hospitals BLS benchmark).

Defiance Hospital TCR series: 2016=2.2 · 2017=9.7 · 2018=5.9 · BLS 7.5

Where Defiance Hospital falls in its industry

6,862 General medical and surgical h establishments

Safer than 38% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

Grade B

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #277 safest of 352 General medical and surgical h employers in Ohio.

Defiance Hospital (173 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Defiance Hospital has fewer 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
2018	5.9	3.7	7	1
2017	9.7	4.8	6	0
2016	2.2	1.1	2	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

622110 · OH · Defiance

6,862 General medical and surgical hospitals employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 65 employers in Defiance, OH · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	HCA Florida Lake City Hospital	LAKE CITY, FL	6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Sarah D Culbertson Memorial Hospital	RUSHVILLE, IL	6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Jefferson Hospital Stratford	STRATFORD, NJ	6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Warm Springs Rehabilitation Hospital of Westover Hills	SAN ANTONIO, TX	6.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Shelly Northwest construction	FINDLAY	173 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Weidmann Electrical Technology Inc.	URBANA	173 FTE
STATE-SIZE	WS Packaging Group, Inc - Mason/WSA	MASON	173 FTE
STATE-SIZE	ArcelorMittal Warren (EIN 043634649)	WARREN	173 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Campbell Soup Supply Company, LLC	Defiance	1,425 FTE
CITY-NEAR	General Motors LLC.	Defiance	734 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Defiance 8	Defiance	437 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Defiance Regional Medical Center	Defiance	363 FTE
NAT-TCR	Monogram Pet Treats, LLC	Schulenburg, TX	6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR	Luurtsema Sales Inc.	Jenison, MI	6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR	Newport RI	Newport, RI	6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR	Lifo, LLC	Healdsburg, CA	6.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Sabert RDC	Sayreville, NJ	173 FTE
NAT-SIZE	100179 - Kamehameha Guideway	Waipahu, HI	173 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Samet Corporation	Greensboro, NC	173 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Manor Care Health Services - North Hills	Pittsburgh, PA	173 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: 2018, 2017, 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.