General medical and surgical hospitals · District of Columbia
Medstar Washington Hospital Center
Washington, DC · ~7,073 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.
- D
- Poor Safety Record
- 9.5
- Avg TCR
- 7.5
- Industry avg
- 3
- Fatalities
The verdict
Medstar Washington Hospital Center runs at 126% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical General medical and surgical hospitals workplace, earning a grade D.
- D
- Poor Safety Record
- 9.5
- avg TCR · per 100 workers
- 7.5
- industry benchmark (BLS)
- 3
- worker fatalities on record
Grade compares Medstar Washington Hospital Center's OSHA Total Case Rate of 9.5 to the General medical and surgical hospitals BLS benchmark of 7.5 (126% of benchmark) across 6 years of Form 300A filings (2016–2024). <a href="/methodology">See methodology</a> for reporting-limitation caveats.
Injury rate over time
Medstar Washington Hospital Center's yearly Total Case Rate, against the 7.5 industry benchmark.
Where Medstar Washington Hospital Center falls in its industry
7,181 General medical and surgical h establishmentsSafer than 9% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.0.
Narrower to District of Columbia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #14 safest of 14 General medical and surgical h employers in District of Columbia.
Trend analysis for Medstar Washington Hospital Center
Between 2016 and 2024, Medstar Washington Hospital Center's Total Case Rate improved from 10.1 to 8.3 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers, a 18% decrease across 8 years of OSHA reporting.
The safest year on record was 2022, at a TCR of 7.3, while 2020 saw the highest rate, at 13.4, a spread of 6.1 points between the best and worst reporting years. That's a wide swing relative to the establishment's overall rate, worth checking the year-by-year table below for whether a single severe year is driving the average, rather than a sustained trend.
Summed across those 6 reporting years, Medstar Washington Hospital Center recorded 2,931 total injuries and illnesses and 3 fatalities. Readers comparing establishments should weigh the 6-year trend above alongside establishment size, since a larger workforce naturally accumulates more raw incidents even at a lower per-100-worker rate.
Verify This Employer with OSHA
The 2,931 injuries, 426 illnesses, and 3 fatalities shown on this page for Medstar Washington Hospital Center are sourced from its own 6 years of mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source, name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.
Verify on OSHA Establishment SearchSource: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 622110 - General medical and surgical hospitals.
DART Rate, Transparent Calculation (2024)
What is the DART rate formula?
DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.
216 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 12,463,749 hours worked = 3.47 DART
Methodology: 29 CFR 1904, OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping
Cross-Validating Context, Establishment vs Industry vs State
| Benchmark | TCR | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Medstar Washington Hospital Center (this establishment) | 9.46 | OSHA ITA Form 300A, 6-year avg |
| Hospitals, general medical and surgical industry avg | 7.50 | BLS IIF, NAICS 622110 |
| District of Columbia state avg (all industries) | 3.42 | OSHA ITA, state-level rollup |
Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program
Reportable Incident Timeline
Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by Medstar Washington Hospital Center to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.
- 2024: 514 reportable incidents · 513 injuries, 1 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2023: 474 reportable incidents · 472 injuries, 2 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2022: 430 reportable incidents · 430 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2021: 593 reportable incidents · 510 injuries, 83 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2020: 799 reportable incidents · 457 injuries, 339 illnesses, 3 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2016: 550 reportable incidents · 549 injuries, 1 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) - inspection case-number records
Year-by-Year Safety Data
| Year | TCR | DART | Injuries | Illnesses | Fatalities |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 8.3 | 3.5 | 513 | 1 | 0 |
| 2023 | 7.9 | 4.2 | 472 | 2 | 0 |
| 2022 | 7.3 | 3.8 | 430 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 9.8 | 5.8 | 510 | 83 | 0 |
| 2020 | 13.4 | 9.7 | 457 | 339 | 3 |
| 2016 | 10.1 | 4.1 | 549 | 1 | 0 |
What this grade means for you
Use this grade as a relative read on Medstar Washington Hospital Center's reported OSHA injury record versus its General medical and surgical hospitals peers, not a verdict on whether any single site is safe today.
- At 126% of the General medical and surgical hospitals benchmark, Medstar Washington Hospital Center reports more injuries than typical peers, ask specifically how the employer is reducing them. Know your rights
- Judge this record against the wider General medical and surgical hospitals sector, where injury rates vary widely, before comparing it in isolation. See the industry
- Grades reflect 2016–2024 filings; check the latest establishment record straight from OSHA, or look up a different employer. Look up another
Safety grades reflect employers' self-reported OSHA Form 300A filings from 2016 to 2024 and can lag current conditions. A grade is not a guarantee that any specific workplace is safe or unsafe today. See our methodology and disclaimer.
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Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.