General medical and surgical hospitals · Massachusetts

Heywood Hospital

Gardner, MA · ~1,092 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
7.3
Avg TCR
7.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Heywood Hospital runs at 97% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical General medical and surgical hospitals workplace, earning a grade C.

Heywood Hospital: 7.3 TCR = 97% of General medical and surgical hospitals BLS 7.5 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Heywood Hospital safety composite

Heywood Hospital scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 20%), 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

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% 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

−8.1

2016→2024

Heywood Hospital injury rate improved

Heywood Hospital's TCR fell 8.1 from 12.0 in 2016 to 3.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 12.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.48× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=12.0 · 2018=6.4 · 2019=6.9 · 2020=10.6 · 2021=8.5 · 2022=4.3 · 2023=5.5 · 2024=3.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 622110 · Gardner, MA AT/BELOW-IND · LARGE

Grade C · TCR 7.3 · 97% of ind

  • DART 3.5 DART
  • RANK #69/87
  • PHOTO WhidbeyHealth Medica…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 320 inj
  • SIZE ~1,092 FTE

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

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Heywood Hospital in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Heywood Hospital averages 7.3 TCR (97% 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

Heywood Hospital TCR series: 2016=12 · 2018=6.4 · 2019=6.9 · 2020=10.6 · 2021=8.5 · 2022=4.3 · 2023=5.5 · 2024=3.9 · BLS 7.5

Where Heywood Hospital falls in its industry

6,862 General medical and surgical h establishments

Safer than 22% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #69 safest of 87 General medical and surgical h employers in Massachusetts.

Heywood Hospital (1,092 employees, TCR 7.3) 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 Heywood Hospital
Heywood Hospital (1,092 employees, TCR 7.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Heywood Hospital 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
2024 3.9 3.5 31 0 0
2023 5.5 3.3 34 3 0
2022 4.3 2.2 36 5 0
2021 8.5 5.8 43 16 0
2020 10.6 6.3 39 33 0
2019 6.9 3.2 39 4 0
2018 6.4 4.0 32 2 0
2016 12.0 4.8 66 4 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

622110 · MA · Gardner

6,862 General medical and surgical hospitals employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 37 employers in Gardner, 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 WhidbeyHealth Medical Center 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Addison Gilbert Hospital 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Northwest Medical Center Sahuarita 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 16120001-161201 FLAGET MEMORIAL HOSPITAL 7.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE MORTON HOSPITAL 1,097 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pathfinder 1,082 FTE
STATE-SIZE Philips NAM CX Cambridge MA 1,079 FTE
STATE-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - BOS5 1,076 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2155 297 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2155 258 FTE
CITY-NEAR GVNA HealthCare Inc 167 FTE
CITY-NEAR Garlock Printing and Converting 166 FTE
NAT-TCR WhidbeyHealth Medical Center 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Sierra Masonry LLC 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Alco Dexter 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Viking Ready Mix/Shirk 7.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Mondelez Global - East Hanover Tech Center 1,092 FTE
NAT-SIZE Covestro Baytown 1,092 FTE
NAT-SIZE Agi Ord 1,092 FTE
NAT-SIZE Snoqualmie Casino 1,092 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.