Cancer hospitals · Michigan

Karmanos Cancer Institute

Detroit, MI · ~255 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.6
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Karmanos Cancer Institute runs at 14% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Cancer hospitals workplace, earning a grade A.

Karmanos Cancer Institute: 0.6 TCR = 14% of Cancer hospitals BLS 3.8 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Karmanos Cancer Institute safety composite

Karmanos Cancer Institute scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 99% 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).

B

80/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 99% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% 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

Karmanos Cancer Institute: 0.0 → 1.0 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 1.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.89× in 2024

Karmanos Cancer Institute's TCR rose 1.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 1.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 1.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.89× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 622310 · Detroit, MI AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.6 · 14% of ind

  • DART 0.5 DART
  • RANK #1/42
  • PHOTO Sage IP - Baton Rouge
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~255 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sage IP - Baton Rouge (0.0 TCR gap)

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Karmanos Cancer Institute in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Karmanos Cancer Institute averages 0.6 TCR (14% of the Cancer hospitals BLS benchmark).

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

Karmanos Cancer Institute TCR series: 2016=0 · 2021=1.4 · 2022=0 · 2023=0.4 · 2024=1 · BLS 3.8

Where Karmanos Cancer Institute falls in its industry

1,390 Cancer hospitals establishments

Safer than 99% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 42 Cancer hospitals employers in Michigan.

Karmanos Cancer Institute (255 employees, TCR 0.6) 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Karmanos Cancer Institute
Karmanos Cancer Institute (255 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 160 employees and a TCR of 5.4

Karmanos Cancer Institute has more employees than the Cancer hospitals 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 1.0 0.5 2 0 0
2023 0.4 0.0 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 1.4 1.1 4 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

622310 · MI · Detroit

1,390 Cancer hospitals employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 673 employers in Detroit, MI · 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 Sage IP - Baton Rouge 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2253-H4412 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Special Programs for Youth (SPY) 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR UT Health Speciality Hospital 0.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Neal Mast Greenhouses 255 FTE
STATE-SIZE DTE Fermi 2 Nuclear Power Plant Modifications Maintenance Services and Engineering 255 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kent Power 255 FTE
STATE-SIZE Grand Rapids 255 FTE
CITY-NEAR Henry Ford Hospital 8,838 FTE
CITY-NEAR Detroit Campus 8,632 FTE
CITY-NEAR Delta Air Lines - DTW 6,640 FTE
CITY-NEAR General Motors Corporation 5,241 FTE
NAT-TCR CA-Irwindale 6040 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Atg - Stm 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR PCTM Construction Corp. 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Janssen Pharmaceuticals Raritan 0.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ctdan - Danbury 255 FTE
NAT-SIZE Avow Hospice 255 FTE
NAT-SIZE Yuasa Battery Inc. 255 FTE
NAT-SIZE Shoprite of Paramus 255 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, 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.