Hospitals, general medical and surgical · Indiana

Lutheran Downtown Hospital formerly St Joe Hospital

Fort Wayne, IN · ~241 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
6.2
Avg TCR
7.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lutheran Downtown Hospital formerly St Joe Hospital runs at 83% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Hospitals, general medical and surgical workplace, earning a grade C.

Lutheran Downtown Hospital formerly St Joe Hospital: 6.2 TCR = 83% of Hospitals, general medical and surgical BLS 7.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lutheran Downtown Hospital formerly St Joe Hospital safety composite

Lutheran Downtown Hospital formerly St Joe Hospital scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 56% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 34%), 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).

D

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Lutheran Downtown Hospital formerly St Joe Hospital: 5.5 → 5.9 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 7.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.24× in 2024

Lutheran Downtown Hospital formerly St Joe Hospital's TCR rose 0.5 from 5.5 in 2022 to 5.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 7.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.24× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 622110 · Fort Wayne, IN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 6.2 · 83% of ind

  • DART 1.5 DART
  • RANK #148/198
  • PHOTO BMC - Baystate Medic…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 26 inj
  • SIZE ~241 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: BMC - Baystate Medical Center (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lutheran Downtown Hospital formerly St Joe Hospital in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lutheran Downtown Hospital formerly St Joe Hospital averages 6.2 TCR (83% 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

Lutheran Downtown Hospital formerly St Joe Hospital TCR series: 2022=5.5 · 2023=7.3 · 2024=5.9 · BLS 7.5

Where Lutheran Downtown Hospital formerly St Joe Hospital falls in its industry

6,862 Hospitals, general medical and establishments

Safer than 34% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #148 safest of 198 Hospitals, general medical and employers in Indiana.

Lutheran Downtown Hospital formerly St Joe Hospital (241 employees, TCR 6.2) 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 Lutheran Downtown Hospital formerly St Joe Hospital
Lutheran Downtown Hospital formerly St Joe Hospital (241 employees, TCR 6.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Lutheran Downtown Hospital formerly St Joe Hospital has fewer 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
2024 5.9 1.5 9 3 0
2023 7.3 1.7 6 7 0
2022 5.5 1.5 11 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

622110 · IN · Fort Wayne

6,862 Hospitals, general medical and surgical employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 634 employers in Fort Wayne, IN · 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 BMC - Baystate Medical Center 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR South Shore University Hospital 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Advocate Sherman Hospital 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Minnetonka Medical Center 6.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Zentis North America LLC 241 FTE
STATE-SIZE Maple Leaf Farms, Inc. - MLS Processing Plant 241 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tenneco 241 FTE
STATE-SIZE Indiana Beverage Inc 241 FTE
CITY-NEAR Parkview Memorial Hospital 6,096 FTE
CITY-NEAR Parkview North Hospital 4,648 FTE
CITY-NEAR Parkview Corporate Office 3,312 FTE
CITY-NEAR Shambaugh & Son LP 3,072 FTE
NAT-TCR 3345 - Encino Ventura Blvd 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Precision Fabrics Group, Inc. 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Eastern Lift Truck Co., Inc. Br19 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Monte Vista RV Resort 6.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Brudnick Center for Living 241 FTE
NAT-SIZE Centrex Rehab - Minnesota 241 FTE
NAT-SIZE Arauco North America 241 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - DLI5 241 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.