General medical and surgical hospitals · California

Dignity Health

Merced, CA · ~1,279 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
6.8
Avg TCR
7.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Dignity Health runs at 91% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical General medical and surgical hospitals workplace, earning a grade C.

Dignity Health: 6.8 TCR = 91% of General medical and surgical hospitals BLS 7.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dignity Health safety composite

Dignity Health scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 6%), 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).

F

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% 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

Dignity Health: 0.1 → 13.6 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 13.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1× in 2020

Dignity Health's TCR rose 13.5 from 0.1 in 2019 to 13.6 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 1× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 622110 · Merced, CA AT/BELOW-IND · LARGE

Grade C · TCR 6.8 · 91% of ind

  • DART 6.8 DART
  • RANK #344/662
  • PHOTO Norton Women's and C…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 217 inj
  • SIZE ~1,279 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Norton Women's and Children's Hospital NWCH (0.0 TCR gap)

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Dignity Health in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dignity Health averages 6.8 TCR (91% 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

Dignity Health TCR series: 2019=0.1 · 2020=13.6 · BLS 7.5

Where Dignity Health falls in its industry

6,862 General medical and surgical h establishments

Safer than 27% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #344 safest of 662 General medical and surgical h employers in California.

Dignity Health (1,279 employees, TCR 6.8) 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 Dignity Health
Dignity Health (1,279 employees, TCR 6.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Dignity Health has more 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 Fatalities
2020 13.6 6.8 123 12 0
2019 0.1 0.1 94 3 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

622110 · CA · Merced

6,862 General medical and surgical hospitals employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 187 employers in Merced, CA · 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 Norton Women's and Children's Hospital NWCH 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Piedmont Rockdale Hospital 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR UPMC Carlisle 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR EL PASO LTACH PARTNERS LP 6.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bergelectric Corp. CA 1,279 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2032-08680451 1,280 FTE
STATE-SIZE California Department of Transportation Facility 68 1,277 FTE
STATE-SIZE Culver City / Westside 1,282 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6403-64030211 1,404 FTE
CITY-NEAR 64030211-211001 MERCY MEDICAL CENTER MERCED 1,306 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2643-64030211-211001 1,200 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 320 779 FTE
NAT-TCR NHN-ODFL 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR TranSource Greensboro 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 254 Route 58 - 201 Old Country Rd 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 198 Grumman Rd 6.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Fox Valley Technical College (WI) 1,279 FTE
NAT-SIZE Luther College 1,279 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - IAH1 1,279 FTE
NAT-SIZE AdventHealth Sebring 1,279 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: 2020, 2019. 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.