General medical and surgical hospitals · Tennessee

Erlanger Health System

Chattanooga, TN · ~6,130 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
5.8
Avg TCR
7.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Erlanger Health System runs at 77% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical General medical and surgical hospitals workplace, earning a grade B.

Erlanger Health System: 5.8 TCR = 77% of General medical and surgical hospitals BLS 7.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Erlanger Health System safety composite

Erlanger Health System scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 40%), 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

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% 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

−3.5

2021→2022

Erlanger Health System injury rate improved

Erlanger Health System's TCR fell 3.5 from 7.5 in 2021 to 4.0 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2021 at 7.5 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.06× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=7.5 · 2022=4.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 622110 · Chattanooga, TN AT/BELOW-IND · LARGE

Grade B · TCR 5.8 · 77% of ind

  • DART 0.4 DART
  • RANK #99/157
  • PHOTO Bear River Valley Ho…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 523 inj
  • SIZE ~6,130 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bear River Valley Hospital (0.0 TCR gap)

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Erlanger Health System in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Erlanger Health System averages 5.8 TCR (77% 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

Erlanger Health System TCR series: 2021=7.5 · 2022=4 · BLS 7.5

Where Erlanger Health System falls in its industry

6,862 General medical and surgical h establishments

Safer than 40% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #99 safest of 157 General medical and surgical h employers in Tennessee.

Erlanger Health System (6,130 employees, TCR 5.8) 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 02,0004,0006,0008,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Erlanger Health System
Erlanger Health System (6,130 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Erlanger Health System 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
2022 4.0 0.4 179 0 0
2021 7.5 1.4 344 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

622110 · TN · Chattanooga

6,862 General medical and surgical hospitals employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 695 employers in Chattanooga, TN · 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 Bear River Valley Hospital 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Grandview Hosptial 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Texas Health Denton 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Howard County General Hospital 5.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Education K - 12 6,141 FTE
STATE-SIZE Williamson County Board of Education - Williamson County Schools 6,320 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cellular Sales Services Group LLC 6,387 FTE
STATE-SIZE Smyrna Vehicle Plant 6,459 FTE
CITY-NEAR CHATTANOOGA COKE 8,650 FTE
CITY-NEAR CHATTANOOGA FOOD 8,650 FTE
CITY-NEAR USXpress 7,385 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cardiology GB 6,606 FTE
NAT-TCR Bogata 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Krieger Barrels, Inc. 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Walsh Central 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital 5.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Greenville Memorial Med Campus 6,132 FTE
NAT-SIZE Albany Medical Center Hospital 6,133 FTE
NAT-SIZE Abbott Northwestern Hospital 6,106 FTE
NAT-SIZE Aventura Hospital Medical Center 6,099 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: 2022, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.