Hospices, inpatient care · North Carolina

Hospice of Gaston County, Inc.

Gastonia, NC · ~90 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
5.2
Avg TCR
6.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hospice of Gaston County, Inc. runs at 80% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Hospices, inpatient care workplace, earning a grade B.

Hospice of Gaston County, Inc.: 5.2 TCR = 80% of Hospices, inpatient care BLS 6.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hospice of Gaston County, Inc. safety composite

Hospice of Gaston County, Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 63% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 28%), 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).

D

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 5.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 63% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% 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

Hospice of Gaston County, Inc.: 5.5 → 8.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 8.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.21× in 2024

Hospice of Gaston County, Inc.'s TCR rose 2.9 from 5.5 in 2019 to 8.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.21× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 623110 · Gastonia, NC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 5.2 · 80% of ind

  • DART 6.3 DART
  • RANK #210/510
  • PHOTO Sarah Ann Hester Mem…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~90 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sarah Ann Hester Memorial Home (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hospice of Gaston County, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hospice of Gaston County, Inc. averages 5.2 TCR (80% of the Hospices, inpatient care BLS benchmark).

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

Hospice of Gaston County, Inc. TCR series: 2019=5.5 · 2020=6.1 · 2021=5 · 2022=3.1 · 2023=3 · 2024=8.4 · BLS 6.5

Where Hospice of Gaston County, Inc. falls in its industry

15,252 Hospices, inpatient care establishments

Safer than 63% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #210 safest of 510 Hospices, inpatient care employers in North Carolina.

Hospice of Gaston County, Inc. (90 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 106 employees and a TCR of 6.6 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Hospice of Gaston County, Inc.
Hospice of Gaston County, Inc. (90 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 106 employees and a TCR of 6.6

Hospice of Gaston County, Inc. has fewer employees than the Hospices, inpatient care median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.6. 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 8.4 6.3 4 0 0
2023 3.0 0.0 2 0 0
2022 3.1 3.1 2 0 0
2021 5.0 3.3 3 0 0
2020 6.1 6.1 3 1 0
2019 5.5 5.5 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

623110 · NC · Gastonia

15,252 Hospices, inpatient care employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 182 employers in Gastonia, NC · 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 Sarah Ann Hester Memorial Home 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Eureka Nursing 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sagepoint Senior Services 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Waters of Middletown 5.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Allen Steam Station 90 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fayetteville Resource Center - PNG 90 FTE
STATE-SIZE D.R. Horton, Inc. - Raleigh 90 FTE
STATE-SIZE NJR Group Inc. 90 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gaston Memorial Hospital, Incorporated d/b/a CaroMont Regional Medical Center 3,156 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gaston County Government 1,711 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wix Allen Plant 931 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gastonia Components and Logistics - Tulip 912 FTE
NAT-TCR Washington State Dept of Natural Resources - Equipment Services/Compound 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Mira Loma Shop CA FXFE-MRLS 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 007k - Denver Co Rntl 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Tetra Pak Materials LLC 5.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Trader Joe's 0361 Meridian 90 FTE
NAT-SIZE Carfair Composites USA 90 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dairyland Seed 90 FTE
NAT-SIZE HCA Houston Healthcare Northwest - EVS 90 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.