Employer · District of Columbia

Howard University Hospital EM

Washington, DC · ~39 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
13.0
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
Subscribe to safety-record updates (RSS)

The verdict

Howard University Hospital EM runs at 341% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade F.

Howard University Hospital EM: 13.0 TCR = 341% of industry BLS 3.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Howard University Hospital EM safety composite

Howard University Hospital EM scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 4%), 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

16/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 12.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

Howard University Hospital EM: 13.4 → 25.5 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 25.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.66× in 2021

Howard University Hospital EM's TCR rose 12.1 from 13.4 in 2019 to 25.5 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 0.66× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 621999 · Washington, DC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 13.0 · 341% of ind

  • DART 8.5 DART
  • RANK P5
  • PHOTO Physician Correction…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~39 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Physician Correctional (Complejo Correccional Guerrero) (0.0 TCR gap)

Read with this employer → · Industry book → · District of Columbia employers → · Look up another →

Howard University Hospital EM in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Howard University Hospital EM averages 13.0 TCR (341% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

Howard University Hospital EM TCR series: 2019=13.4 · 2020=0 · 2021=25.5 · BLS 3.8

Where Howard University Hospital EM falls in its industry

461 industry establishments

Safer than 5% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Howard University Hospital EM (39 employees, TCR 13.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 01,0002,0003,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Howard University Hospital EM
Howard University Hospital EM (39 employees, TCR 13.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Howard University Hospital EM has fewer employees than the industry median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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 25.5 8.5 1 2 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 13.4 6.7 1 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

621999 · DC · Washington

461 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 793 rated employers in District of Columbia with headcount on file · 748 employers in Washington, DC · 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 Physician Correctional (Complejo Correccional Guerrero) 13.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Froedtert Pleasant Prairie Hospital 13.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital 13.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 5097 - GA Gwinnett County 13.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE 2020146 - WMATA Bladensburg Bus Garage Replacement 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE MOM's Organic Market - Ivy City 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE 109825-FACILITIES PROGRAM MANAGEMENT 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE 104960-WDC-CONGRESS HEIGHTS STA 39 FTE
CITY-NEAR Children's National Medical Center 7,153 FTE
CITY-NEAR Medstar Washington Hospital Center 7,073 FTE
CITY-NEAR Medstar Georgetown University Hospital 4,771 FTE
CITY-NEAR Customs and Border Protection - Headquarters 3,601 FTE
NAT-TCR 4769-960-Pottery Barn 13.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Bigelow & Lennon Construction 13.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Chesapeake Sheriff's Office 13.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Huntington Park Nursing Center 13.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Pa157-Yapi-Bradford County, Pa157 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hill & Smith, Inc. - Work Area Texas 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Herr Foods Inc. 68 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Indiana Metal Craft 39 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, 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.