General medical and surgical hospitals · Pennsylvania

Lehigh Valley Hospital - 17

Allentown, PA · ~566 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
7.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lehigh Valley Hospital - 17 runs at 32% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical General medical and surgical hospitals workplace, earning a grade A.

Lehigh Valley Hospital - 17: 2.4 TCR = 32% of General medical and surgical hospitals BLS 7.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lehigh Valley Hospital - 17 safety composite

Lehigh Valley Hospital - 17 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 85% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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

70/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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%).

Lehigh Valley Hospital - 17 held a steady TCR band

Lehigh Valley Hospital - 17's TCR held near 0.3 from 2.6 in 2023 to 2.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 2.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.47× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=2.6 · 2024=2.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 622110 · Allentown, PA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 2.4 · 32% of ind

  • DART 1.1 DART
  • RANK #39/262
  • PHOTO Council Oak Comprehe…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~566 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Council Oak Comprehensive Healthcare (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lehigh Valley Hospital - 17 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lehigh Valley Hospital - 17 averages 2.4 TCR (32% of the General medical and surgical hospitals BLS benchmark).

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

Lehigh Valley Hospital - 17 TCR series: 2023=2.6 · 2024=2.3 · BLS 7.5

Where Lehigh Valley Hospital - 17 falls in its industry

6,862 General medical and surgical h establishments

Safer than 85% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #39 safest of 262 General medical and surgical h employers in Pennsylvania.

Lehigh Valley Hospital - 17 (566 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2 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 Lehigh Valley Hospital - 17
Lehigh Valley Hospital - 17 (566 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Lehigh Valley Hospital - 17 has more employees than the General medical and surgical hospitals median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.2. 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 2.3 1.1 10 0 0
2023 2.6 1.2 11 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

622110 · PA · Allentown

6,862 General medical and surgical hospitals employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 447 employers in Allentown, PA · 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 Council Oak Comprehensive Healthcare 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Schleicher County Medical Center 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR STUART FHC 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Medical City Heart & Spine 2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Zippo Manufacturing Company 566 FTE
STATE-SIZE Metropolitan Edison Company 567 FTE
STATE-SIZE 6975-1L17 565 FTE
STATE-SIZE 6284-YR-135 RX 565 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lehigh Valley Hospital 9,463 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1200SCC 6,531 FTE
CITY-NEAR Air Products and Chemicals Inc.- Main Campus 2,118 FTE
CITY-NEAR LOCATION 48042 1,728 FTE
NAT-TCR 148 Cahokia 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Newly Weds Foods, LLC. - Erlanger 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR FV Clinics-Uptown 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR STR0532 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Nvlas - Las Vegas North 566 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cabll - Bell Hub 566 FTE
NAT-SIZE NY_Rochester_71 Mt Hope Ave_ARR106R0 566 FTE
NAT-SIZE Prent 566 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.