General medical and surgical hospitals · Florida

Highlands Regional Medical Center

Sebring, FL · ~323 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
7.0
Avg TCR
7.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Highlands Regional Medical Center runs at 94% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical General medical and surgical hospitals workplace, earning a grade C.

Highlands Regional Medical Center: 7.0 TCR = 94% of General medical and surgical hospitals BLS 7.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Highlands Regional Medical Center safety composite

Highlands Regional Medical Center scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 2%), 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

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% of industry peers

DART rate
F 12.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Highlands Regional Medical Center: 3.0 → 14.0 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 14.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.75× in 2021

Highlands Regional Medical Center's TCR rose 11.0 from 3.0 in 2016 to 14.0 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 1.75× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 622110 · Sebring, FL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 7.0 · 94% of ind

  • DART 12.4 DART
  • RANK #291/350
  • PHOTO Paoli Hospital
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 49 inj
  • SIZE ~323 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Paoli Hospital (0.0 TCR gap)

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Highlands Regional Medical Center in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Highlands Regional Medical Center averages 7.0 TCR (94% 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

Highlands Regional Medical Center TCR series: 2016=3 · 2017=6.8 · 2019=4.4 · 2021=14 · BLS 7.5

Where Highlands Regional Medical Center falls in its industry

6,862 General medical and surgical h establishments

Safer than 25% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Florida alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #291 safest of 350 General medical and surgical h employers in Florida.

Highlands Regional Medical Center (323 employees, TCR 7.0) 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 Highlands Regional Medical Center
Highlands Regional Medical Center (323 employees, TCR 7.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Highlands Regional Medical Center has fewer 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
2021 14.0 12.4 7 27 0
2019 4.4 1.6 14 0 0
2017 6.8 2.0 17 0 0
2016 3.0 0.9 11 3 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

622110 · FL · Sebring

6,862 General medical and surgical hospitals employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 26,569 rated employers in Florida with headcount on file · 57 employers in Sebring, FL · 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 Paoli Hospital 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR EvergreenHealth Monroe (DBA Valley General Hospital) 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Grayling Hospital 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tristar Summit Medical Center 7.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Wiginton Corporation 323 FTE
STATE-SIZE EnviroFocus Technologies LLC, DBA Gopher Resource 323 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 960 323 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2920 323 FTE
CITY-NEAR Florida Hospital Heartland Medical Center 1,433 FTE
CITY-NEAR AdventHealth Sebring 1,279 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 666 405 FTE
CITY-NEAR HCA Florida Highlands Hospital 399 FTE
NAT-TCR Cling's HQ 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR USJT Ingram Micro Inc Jonestown 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Post Holdings 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR ARS Nebraska - Hastings NE 7.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Loker 323 FTE
NAT-SIZE IPL Petersburg 323 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mud Pie, LLC 323 FTE
NAT-SIZE Call Center Tulsa 323 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: 2021, 2019, 2017, 2016. 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.