General medical and surgical hospitals · Georgia
DeKalb Medical Center
Decatur, GA · ~2,462 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.
- F
- Failing Safety Record
- 15.2
- Avg TCR
- 7.5
- Industry avg
- 0
- Fatalities
The verdict
DeKalb Medical Center runs at 203% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical General medical and surgical hospitals workplace, earning a grade F.
- F
- Failing Safety Record
- 15.2
- avg TCR · per 100 workers
- 7.5
- industry benchmark (BLS)
- 144
- recordable injuries tracked
Grade compares DeKalb Medical Center's OSHA Total Case Rate of 15.2 to the General medical and surgical hospitals BLS benchmark of 7.5 (203% of benchmark) across 2 years of Form 300A filings (2016–2024). <a href="/methodology">See methodology</a> for reporting-limitation caveats.
Injury rate over time
DeKalb Medical Center's yearly Total Case Rate, against the 7.5 industry benchmark.
Where DeKalb Medical Center falls in its industry
7,181 General medical and surgical h establishmentsSafer than 2% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.0.
Narrower to Georgia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #169 safest of 173 General medical and surgical h employers in Georgia.
Trend analysis for DeKalb Medical Center
Between 2017 and 2018, DeKalb Medical Center's Total Case Rate improved from 24.5 to 5.9 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers, a 76% decrease across 1 year of OSHA reporting.
The safest year on record was 2018, at a TCR of 5.9, while 2017 saw the highest rate, at 24.5, a spread of 18.6 points between the best and worst reporting years. That's a wide swing relative to the establishment's overall rate, worth checking the year-by-year table below for whether a single severe year is driving the average, rather than a sustained trend.
Summed across those 2 reporting years, DeKalb Medical Center recorded 144 total injuries and illnesses, with no fatalities reported in any of those years. Readers comparing establishments should weigh the 2-year trend above alongside establishment size, since a larger workforce naturally accumulates more raw incidents even at a lower per-100-worker rate.
Verify This Employer with OSHA
The 144 injuries, 4 illnesses shown on this page for DeKalb Medical Center are sourced from its own 2 years of mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source, name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.
Verify on OSHA Establishment SearchSource: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 622110 - General medical and surgical hospitals.
DART Rate, Transparent Calculation (2018)
What is the DART rate formula?
DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.
34 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 4,914,168 hours worked = 1.38 DART
Methodology: 29 CFR 1904, OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping
Cross-Validating Context, Establishment vs Industry vs State
| Benchmark | TCR | Source |
|---|---|---|
| DeKalb Medical Center (this establishment) | 15.21 | OSHA ITA Form 300A, 2-year avg |
| Hospitals, general medical and surgical industry avg | 7.50 | BLS IIF, NAICS 622110 |
| Georgia state avg (all industries) | 4.11 | OSHA ITA, state-level rollup |
Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program
Reportable Incident Timeline
Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by DeKalb Medical Center to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.
- 2018: 145 reportable incidents · 144 injuries, 1 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2017: 3 reportable incidents · 0 injuries, 3 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) - inspection case-number records
Year-by-Year Safety Data
| Year | TCR | DART | Injuries | Illnesses | Fatalities |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 5.9 | 1.4 | 144 | 1 | 0 |
| 2017 | 24.5 | 0.0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
What this grade means for you
Use this grade as a relative read on DeKalb Medical Center's reported OSHA injury record versus its General medical and surgical hospitals peers, not a verdict on whether any single site is safe today.
- At 203% of the General medical and surgical hospitals benchmark, DeKalb Medical Center reports more injuries than typical peers, ask specifically how the employer is reducing them. Know your rights
- Judge this record against the wider General medical and surgical hospitals sector, where injury rates vary widely, before comparing it in isolation. See the industry
- Grades reflect 2016–2024 filings; check the latest establishment record straight from OSHA, or look up a different employer. Look up another
Safety grades reflect employers' self-reported OSHA Form 300A filings from 2016 to 2024 and can lag current conditions. A grade is not a guarantee that any specific workplace is safe or unsafe today. See our methodology and disclaimer.
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Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.