Hospitals, specialty (except psychiatric, substance abuse) · Pennsylvania

Good Shepherd Specialty Hospital

Bethlehem, PA · ~121 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
13.0
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Good Shepherd Specialty Hospital runs at 343% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Hospitals, specialty (except psychiatric, substance abuse) workplace, earning a grade F.

Good Shepherd Specialty Hospital: 13.0 TCR = 343% of Hospitals, specialty (except psychiatric, substance abuse) BLS 3.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Good Shepherd Specialty Hospital safety composite

Good Shepherd Specialty Hospital scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 13.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% 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%).

TCR Δ

−3.9

2018→2019

Good Shepherd Specialty Hospital injury rate improved

Good Shepherd Specialty Hospital's TCR fell 3.9 from 15.0 in 2018 to 11.1 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 15.0 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.19× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=15.0 · 2019=11.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 622310 · Bethlehem, PA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 13.0 · 343% of ind

  • DART 2.5 DART
  • RANK #94/103
  • PHOTO Integris Health Comm…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~121 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Integris Health Community Hospital-Del City (0.0 TCR gap)

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Good Shepherd Specialty Hospital in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Good Shepherd Specialty Hospital averages 13.0 TCR (343% of the Hospitals, specialty (except psychiatric, substance abuse) BLS benchmark).

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

Good Shepherd Specialty Hospital TCR series: 2018=15 · 2019=11.1 · BLS 3.8

Where Good Shepherd Specialty Hospital falls in its industry

1,390 Hospitals, specialty (except p establishments

Safer than 6% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #94 safest of 103 Hospitals, specialty (except p employers in Pennsylvania.

Good Shepherd Specialty Hospital (121 employees, TCR 13.0) 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 Good Shepherd Specialty Hospital
Good Shepherd Specialty Hospital (121 employees, TCR 13.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 160 employees and a TCR of 5.4

Good Shepherd Specialty Hospital has fewer employees than the Hospitals, specialty (except psychiatric 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
2019 11.1 2.5 7 2 0
2018 15.0 6.9 9 4 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

622310 · PA · Bethlehem

1,390 Hospitals, specialty (except psychiatric, substance abuse) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 358 employers in Bethlehem, PA · 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 Integris Health Community Hospital-Del City 13.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of Newnan 13.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Steward Hillside Rehabilitation Hospital 13.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pine Pointe, Navicent Health 13.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Power Conversion : Global 121 FTE
STATE-SIZE D.M. Sabia & Co., Inc. 121 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nortera Foods - Lebanon 121 FTE
STATE-SIZE Swiss Premium - Lebanon 121 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Luke's Hospital 5,338 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Luke's Physician's Group 3,041 FTE
CITY-NEAR LVH-Muhlenberg 2,139 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4087 2,105 FTE
NAT-TCR Tow Path Ready Mix 13.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Mid-South Transplant Foundation 13.0 TCR
NAT-TCR GA 2095 Winder Highway 13.0 TCR
NAT-TCR S04224 - WM of Rochester 13.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Elkridge23 121 FTE
NAT-SIZE Downs North Bakersfield 121 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lindus Construction/Midwest Leafguard 121 FTE
NAT-SIZE Luzia-Site 121 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.