Hospitals, general medical and surgical · California

Dignity Health Dominican Hospital

Santa Cruz, CA · ~1,652 workers · 2 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

Dignity Health Dominican 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.

Dignity Health Dominican Hospital: 6.3 TCR = 84% of Hospitals, general medical and surgical BLS 7.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dignity Health Dominican Hospital safety composite

Dignity Health Dominican Hospital scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 34%), 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

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% 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

−2.1

2018→2019

Dignity Health Dominican Hospital injury rate improved

Dignity Health Dominican Hospital's TCR fell 2.1 from 7.3 in 2018 to 5.2 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 7.3 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.34× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=7.3 · 2019=5.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade C · TCR 6.3 · 84% of ind

  • DART 2.2 DART
  • RANK #296/662
  • PHOTO Bellevue Medical Cen…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 109 inj
  • SIZE ~1,652 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bellevue Medical Center (0.0 TCR gap)

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Dignity Health Dominican Hospital in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dignity Health Dominican 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

Dignity Health Dominican Hospital TCR series: 2018=7.3 · 2019=5.2 · BLS 7.5

Where Dignity Health Dominican 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 California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #296 safest of 662 Hospitals, general medical and employers in California.

Dignity Health Dominican Hospital (1,652 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 Dignity Health Dominican Hospital
Dignity Health Dominican Hospital (1,652 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Dignity Health Dominican 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
2019 5.2 2.2 53 0 0
2018 7.3 4.7 56 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

622110 · CA · Santa Cruz

6,862 Hospitals, general medical and surgical employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 133 employers in Santa Cruz, 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 Bellevue Medical Center 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR St. Mary's Hospital - Janesville 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR OSF Saint Elizabeth Medical Center 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Villages Regional Hospital 6.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE California Department of Transportation Facility 565 1,651 FTE
STATE-SIZE Los Robles Hospital and Medical Center 1,651 FTE
STATE-SIZE California Department of Transportation Facility 317 1,650 FTE
STATE-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - ONT2 1,650 FTE
CITY-NEAR UC Santa Cruz 8,081 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6403-64030253 1,732 FTE
CITY-NEAR 64030253-253001 DOMINICAN HOSPITAL SANTA CRUZ 1,464 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2643-64030253-253001 1,428 FTE
NAT-TCR Shelby Baptist Medical Center 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR The William Breman Jewish Home 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR True Value Manchester RDC 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Olympics West Senior Living Community 6.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Manchester Memorial Hospital 1,652 FTE
NAT-SIZE Clinic 1,651 FTE
NAT-SIZE 050 Texas Health Arlington Memorial Hospital 1,653 FTE
NAT-SIZE American Cast Iron Pipe Co 1,653 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: 2019, 2018. 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.