General Medical and Surgical Hospitals · North Carolina

Dex-Blue Ridge Hospital

Morganton, NC · ~3,263 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
4.4
Avg TCR
7.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Dex-Blue Ridge Hospital runs at 59% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical General Medical and Surgical Hospitals workplace, earning a grade B.

Dex-Blue Ridge Hospital: 4.4 TCR = 59% of General Medical and Surgical Hospitals BLS 7.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dex-Blue Ridge Hospital safety composite

Dex-Blue Ridge Hospital scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 64% 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

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 61% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% 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

−1.4

2022→2023

Dex-Blue Ridge Hospital injury rate improved

Dex-Blue Ridge Hospital's TCR fell 1.4 from 5.1 in 2022 to 3.7 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 5.1 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.26× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=5.1 · 2023=3.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade B · TCR 4.4 · 59% of ind

  • DART 1.2 DART
  • RANK #76/175
  • PHOTO Trinity Medical Cent…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 105 inj
  • SIZE ~3,263 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Trinity Medical Center West (0.0 TCR gap)

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Dex-Blue Ridge Hospital in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dex-Blue Ridge Hospital averages 4.4 TCR (59% of the General Medical and Surgical Hospitals BLS benchmark).

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

Dex-Blue Ridge Hospital TCR series: 2022=5.1 · 2023=3.7 · BLS 7.5

Where Dex-Blue Ridge Hospital falls in its industry

6,862 General Medical and Surgical H establishments

Safer than 61% 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 #76 safest of 175 General Medical and Surgical H employers in North Carolina.

Dex-Blue Ridge Hospital (3,263 employees, TCR 4.4) 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 Dex-Blue Ridge Hospital
Dex-Blue Ridge Hospital (3,263 employees, TCR 4.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Dex-Blue Ridge Hospital has more employees than the General Medical and Surgical Hospitals 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
2023 3.7 1.2 48 0 0
2022 5.1 1.8 57 3 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

622110 · NC · Morganton

6,862 General Medical and Surgical Hospitals employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 106 employers in Morganton, 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 Trinity Medical Center West 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4701-629 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR ND,Fargo-Broadway Hospital-General Medical And Surgical Hospitals 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR UPMC Western Maryland 4.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Guilford County Local Government - All Employees 3,270 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wake Forest University Health Sciences 3,280 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lumber Bridge Processing 3,214 FTE
STATE-SIZE 521 Northridge Distribution 3,312 FTE
CITY-NEAR Blue Ridge HealthCare Hospitals, Inc. 1,461 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0090-BRHC Hospitals 1,460 FTE
CITY-NEAR Broughton Hospital 1,198 FTE
CITY-NEAR DHHS 1,011 FTE
NAT-TCR Unit #1559 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Bon Appetit Danish Inc 4525 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Fitzgerald's 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR California Sierra Express - San Francisco 4.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - LAS1 3,260 FTE
NAT-SIZE Esparza Enterprises, Inc 3,267 FTE
NAT-SIZE Go-Staff Corp 3,267 FTE
NAT-SIZE Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota 3,257 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.