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
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.
- D
- Poor Safety Record
- 4.8
- avg TCR · per 100 workers
- 3.8
- industry benchmark (BLS)
- 1,574
- recordable injuries tracked
Grade compares Hospital for Special Surgery's OSHA Total Case Rate of 4.8 to the Specialty Hospital BLS benchmark of 3.8 (127% of benchmark) across 8 years of Form 300A filings (2016–2024). <a href="/methodology">See methodology</a> for reporting-limitation caveats.
Injury rate over time
Hospital for Special Surgery's yearly Total Case Rate, against the 3.8 industry benchmark.
Where Hospital for Special Surgery falls in its industry
1,437 Specialty Hospital establishmentsSafer than 55% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.3.
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.
Trend analysis for Hospital for Special Surgery
Between 2016 and 2024, Hospital for Special Surgery's Total Case Rate improved from 5.7 to 4.0 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers, a 30% decrease across 8 years of OSHA reporting.
The safest year on record was 2021, at a TCR of 3.5, while 2017 saw the highest rate, at 6.3, a spread of 2.8 points between the best and worst reporting years. That's a comparatively narrow spread, suggesting a fairly consistent safety record across the 8 years with a usable rate on file, rather than one outlier year skewing the multi-year average.
Summed across those 8 reporting years, Hospital for Special Surgery recorded 1,574 total injuries and illnesses, with no fatalities reported in any of those years. Readers comparing establishments should weigh the 8-year trend above alongside establishment size, since a larger workforce naturally accumulates more raw incidents even at a lower per-100-worker rate.
Verify This Employer with OSHA
The 1,574 injuries, 14 illnesses shown on this page for Hospital for Special Surgery are sourced from its own 8 years of mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source, name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.
Verify on OSHA Establishment SearchSource: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 622310 - Specialty Hospital.
DART Rate, Transparent Calculation (2024)
What is the DART rate formula?
DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.
88 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 10,258,168 hours worked = 1.72 DART
Methodology: 29 CFR 1904, OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping
Cross-Validating Context, Establishment vs Industry vs State
| Benchmark | TCR | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Hospital for Special Surgery (this establishment) | 4.82 | OSHA ITA Form 300A, 8-year avg |
| Orthopedic hospitals industry avg | 3.80 | BLS IIF, NAICS 622310 |
| New York state avg (all industries) | 4.67 | OSHA ITA, state-level rollup |
Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program
Reportable Incident Timeline
Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by Hospital for Special Surgery to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.
- 2024: 205 reportable incidents · 203 injuries, 2 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2023: 180 reportable incidents · 180 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2022: 144 reportable incidents · 144 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2021: 162 reportable incidents · 158 injuries, 4 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2019: 230 reportable incidents · 228 injuries, 2 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2018: 230 reportable incidents · 227 injuries, 3 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2017: 234 reportable incidents · 232 injuries, 2 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2016: 203 reportable incidents · 202 injuries, 1 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) - inspection case-number records
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 |
What this grade means for you
Use this grade as a relative read on Hospital for Special Surgery's reported OSHA injury record versus its Specialty Hospital peers, not a verdict on whether any single site is safe today.
- At 127% of the Specialty Hospital benchmark, Hospital for Special Surgery reports more injuries than typical peers, ask specifically how the employer is reducing them. Know your rights
- Judge this record against the wider Specialty Hospital sector, where injury rates vary widely, before comparing it in isolation. See the industry
- Grades reflect 2016–2024 filings; check the latest establishment record straight from OSHA, or look up a different employer. Look up another
Safety grades reflect employers' self-reported OSHA Form 300A filings from 2016 to 2024 and can lag current conditions. A grade is not a guarantee that any specific workplace is safe or unsafe today. See our methodology and disclaimer.
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Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.