Rehabilitation hospitals (except alcoholism, drug addiction) · Massachusetts

Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of New England at Lowell

Lowell, MA · ~43 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.5
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of New England at Lowell runs at 277% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Rehabilitation hospitals (except alcoholism, drug addiction) workplace, earning a grade F.

Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of New England at Lowell: 10.5 TCR = 277% of Rehabilitation hospitals (except alcoholism, drug addiction) BLS 3.8 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of New England at Lowell safety composite

Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of New England at Lowell scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 11%), 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

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of New England at Lowell: 8.4 → 13.8 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 23.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.33× in 2024

Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of New England at Lowell's TCR rose 5.4 from 8.4 in 2019 to 13.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 23.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.33× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 622310 · Lowell, MA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.5 · 277% of ind

  • DART 3.5 DART
  • RANK #25/29
  • PHOTO Ascension St. John R…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~43 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ascension St. John Rehabilitation Hospital Owasso, an affiliate of Encompass Health (0.0 TCR gap)

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Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of New England at Lowell in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of New England at Lowell averages 10.5 TCR (277% of the Rehabilitation hospitals (except alcoholism, drug addiction) BLS benchmark).

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

Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of New England at Lowell TCR series: 2019=8.4 · 2020=7.2 · 2022=23.2 · 2023=0 · 2024=13.8 · BLS 3.8

Where Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of New England at Lowell falls in its industry

1,390 Rehabilitation hospitals (exce establishments

Safer than 11% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #25 safest of 29 Rehabilitation hospitals (exce employers in Massachusetts.

Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of New England at Lowell (43 employees, TCR 10.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 160 employees and a TCR of 5.4 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of New England at Lowell
Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of New England at Lowell (43 employees, TCR 10.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 160 employees and a TCR of 5.4

Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of New England at Lowell has fewer employees than the Rehabilitation hospitals (except alcohol median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.4. 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
2024 13.8 3.5 4 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 23.2 18.6 1 4 0
2020 7.2 7.2 1 1 0
2019 8.4 5.6 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

622310 · MA · Lowell

1,390 Rehabilitation hospitals (except alcoholism, drug addiction) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 81 employers in Lowell, MA · 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 Ascension St. John Rehabilitation Hospital Owasso, an affiliate of Encompass Health 10.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR HealthSouth Rehabilitation Hospital of Henderson 10.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hartford-Saint Francis-Mount Sinai Rehab Hospital 10.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kennedy Krieger Greenspring-Bowles 10.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Joe Czajkowski Farm/Lakeside Organics of Hadley 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Guaranteed Builders and Developers Inc 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sustainable Comfort, Inc 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Acella 43 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lowell General Hospital 2,314 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pathfinder 1,082 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lowell General Hospital Saints 741 FTE
CITY-NEAR Macom Technology Solutions 507 FTE
NAT-TCR 1210 47 Liberty Drive - Day Hab 10.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Stericycle - Concord,NC-4403 Republic 10.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Gig Harbor 10.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Shoprite of Laurel Hill 10.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE ProVia Baltic Facility 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE POET - Jewell 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wolfe Electric Co., Inc. - Lincoln 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fabrizi Recycling Inc. 43 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 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.