Specialty Hospital · New York

Hospital for Special Surgery

New York, NY · ~5,195 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.8
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hospital for Special Surgery runs at 127% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Specialty Hospital workplace, earning a grade D.

Hospital for Special Surgery: 4.8 TCR = 127% of Specialty Hospital BLS 3.8 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hospital for Special Surgery safety composite

Hospital for Special Surgery scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 60% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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)
C 4.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% 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

−1.7

2016→2024

Hospital for Special Surgery injury rate improved

Hospital for Special Surgery's TCR fell 1.7 from 5.7 in 2016 to 4.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 6.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.36× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=5.7 · 2017=6.3 · 2018=6.0 · 2019=5.8 · 2021=3.5 · 2022=3.6 · 2023=3.7 · 2024=4.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 622310 · New York, NY ABOVE-IND · LARGE

Grade D · TCR 4.8 · 127% of ind

  • DART 1.7 DART
  • RANK #3/4
  • PHOTO Northern Utah Rehabi…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 1,574 inj
  • SIZE ~5,195 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Northern Utah Rehabilitation Hospital, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hospital for Special Surgery in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hospital for Special Surgery averages 4.8 TCR (127% of the Specialty Hospital BLS benchmark).

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

Hospital for Special Surgery TCR series: 2016=5.7 · 2017=6.3 · 2018=6 · 2019=5.8 · 2021=3.5 · 2022=3.6 · 2023=3.7 · 2024=4 · BLS 3.8

Where Hospital for Special Surgery falls in its industry

1,390 Specialty Hospital establishments

Safer than 57% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 4 Specialty Hospital employers in New York.

Hospital for Special Surgery (5,195 employees, TCR 4.8) 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 02,0004,0006,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Hospital for Special Surgery
Hospital for Special Surgery (5,195 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 160 employees and a TCR of 5.4

Hospital for Special Surgery has more employees than the Specialty Hospital median and a lower 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
2024 4.0 1.7 203 2 0
2023 3.7 1.7 180 0 0
2022 3.6 1.9 144 0 0
2021 3.5 2.0 158 4 0
2019 5.8 2.3 228 2 0
2018 6.0 3.1 227 3 0
2017 6.3 3.5 232 2 0
2016 5.7 2.8 202 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

622310 · NY · New York

1,390 Specialty Hospital employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 1,952 employers in New York, NY · 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 Northern Utah Rehabilitation Hospital, LLC 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tidelands Health Rehabilitation Hospital an Affiliate of Encompass Health 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Select Specialty Hospital - Savannah, Inc 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of Katy, LLC 4.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Northwell 5,179 FTE
STATE-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - JFK8 5,178 FTE
STATE-SIZE Herald Square 003 5,074 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lewis Tree Service, Inc. 5,022 FTE
CITY-NEAR NYU Grossman School of Medicine 16,280 FTE
CITY-NEAR Memorial Hospital Corporation (MEM) 14,781 FTE
CITY-NEAR NYU Langone Hospitals 12,389 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mount Sinai Medical Center 11,845 FTE
NAT-TCR BMD Galt 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Lawrence Fabric Structures inc 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 0717 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR South Mountain Preserve 4.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Orlando Regional Medical Center 5,195 FTE
NAT-SIZE Micron Boise Site 5,184 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tul-Tulsa-Maintenance Base 5,184 FTE
NAT-SIZE HPI-Ramsey 5,183 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, 2019, 2018, 2017, 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.