Hospitals, general medical and surgical · Pennsylvania

Lehigh Valley Hospital - Hazleton

Hazleton, PA · ~796 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
8.2
Avg TCR
7.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lehigh Valley Hospital - Hazleton runs at 109% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Hospitals, general medical and surgical workplace, earning a grade C.

Lehigh Valley Hospital - Hazleton: 8.2 TCR = 109% of Hospitals, general medical and surgical BLS 7.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lehigh Valley Hospital - Hazleton safety composite

Lehigh Valley Hospital - Hazleton scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 6%), 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

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% 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 - Hazleton held a steady TCR band

Lehigh Valley Hospital - Hazleton's TCR held near 0.1 from 8.6 in 2016 to 8.6 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2016 at 8.6 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.85× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=8.6 · 2017=7.2 · 2018=8.4 · 2020=8.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 622110 · Hazleton, PA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 8.2 · 109% of ind

  • DART 7.0 DART
  • RANK #224/262
  • PHOTO AdventHealth Shawnee…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 160 inj
  • SIZE ~796 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: AdventHealth Shawnee Mission (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lehigh Valley Hospital - Hazleton in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lehigh Valley Hospital - Hazleton averages 8.2 TCR (109% of the Hospitals, general medical and surgical BLS benchmark).

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

Lehigh Valley Hospital - Hazleton TCR series: 2016=8.6 · 2017=7.2 · 2018=8.4 · 2020=8.6 · BLS 7.5

Where Lehigh Valley Hospital - Hazleton falls in its industry

6,862 Hospitals, general medical and establishments

Safer than 16% 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 #224 safest of 262 Hospitals, general medical and employers in Pennsylvania.

Lehigh Valley Hospital - Hazleton (796 employees, TCR 8.2) 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 - Hazleton
Lehigh Valley Hospital - Hazleton (796 employees, TCR 8.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Lehigh Valley Hospital - Hazleton has more employees than the Hospitals, general medical and surgical median and a higher 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
2020 8.6 7.0 20 23 0
2018 8.4 4.5 43 4 0
2017 7.2 3.6 42 0 0
2016 8.6 4.1 55 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

622110 · PA · Hazleton

6,862 Hospitals, general medical and surgical employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 79 employers in Hazleton, 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 AdventHealth Shawnee Mission 8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hartford-Saint Mary's Hospital 8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR FCHN - Franklin Memorial Hospital 8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR River Falls Area Hospital 8.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Turkey Hill LLC 796 FTE
STATE-SIZE KidsPeace National Centers 796 FTE
STATE-SIZE JJ White, Incorporated 797 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fourth Street Barbeque, Inc. SOUTH OPERATIONS 794 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - AVP1 2,394 FTE
CITY-NEAR Case Ready Hazleton PA 872 FTE
CITY-NEAR LVH-Hazleton 722 FTE
CITY-NEAR Michaels Distribution Center #1828 467 FTE
NAT-TCR Schumacher Electric Corporation - Dallas 8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Tmx2033 - Austin 8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Viking Pools - FL 8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Ross store 159 8.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lutheran Home and Serv For The Aged 796 FTE
NAT-SIZE AGCO : Duluth 796 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1855-FLPEN89 796 FTE
NAT-SIZE 414 Nicollet Mall-TA 796 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: 2020, 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.