General medical and surgical hospitals · Massachusetts

Melrose Wakefiled Hospital

Melrose, MA · ~1,541 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
10.2
Avg TCR
7.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Melrose Wakefiled Hospital runs at 136% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical General medical and surgical hospitals workplace, earning a grade D.

Melrose Wakefiled Hospital: 10.2 TCR = 136% of General medical and surgical hospitals BLS 7.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Melrose Wakefiled Hospital safety composite

Melrose Wakefiled Hospital scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 7%), 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

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% 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%).

TCR Δ

−4.3

2016→2021

Melrose Wakefiled Hospital injury rate improved

Melrose Wakefiled Hospital's TCR fell 4.3 from 7.4 in 2016 to 3.1 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 31.1 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.16× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=7.4 · 2017=7.7 · 2018=6.9 · 2019=5.2 · 2020=31.1 · 2021=3.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 622110 · Melrose, MA ABOVE-IND · LARGE

Grade D · TCR 10.2 · 136% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK #83/87
  • PHOTO Anderson County Hosp…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 268 inj
  • SIZE ~1,541 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Anderson County Hospital (0.0 TCR gap)

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Melrose Wakefiled Hospital in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Melrose Wakefiled Hospital averages 10.2 TCR (136% 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

Melrose Wakefiled Hospital TCR series: 2016=7.4 · 2017=7.7 · 2018=6.9 · 2019=5.2 · 2020=31.1 · 2021=3.1 · BLS 7.5

Where Melrose Wakefiled Hospital falls in its industry

6,862 General medical and surgical h establishments

Safer than 7% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #83 safest of 87 General medical and surgical h employers in Massachusetts.

Melrose Wakefiled Hospital (1,541 employees, TCR 10.2) 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 Melrose Wakefiled Hospital
Melrose Wakefiled Hospital (1,541 employees, TCR 10.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Melrose Wakefiled Hospital has more employees than the General medical and surgical hospitals 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
2021 3.1 1.6 20 24 0
2020 31.1 25.2 40 71 0
2019 5.2 2.9 40 5 0
2018 6.9 4.4 55 4 0
2017 7.7 3.4 58 12 0
2016 7.4 3.2 55 13 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

622110 · MA · Melrose

6,862 General medical and surgical hospitals employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 8 employers in Melrose, MA · 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 Anderson County Hospital 10.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR OSF Sacred Heart Medical Center SHMC 10.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hennepin County Medical Center 10.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Okanogan Douglas County Hospital (DBA Three Rivers Hospital) 10.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Vertex Pharmamceuticals, Inc. 1,536 FTE
STATE-SIZE COOLEY DICKINSON HOSPITAL 1,525 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4795-AA-BOS-BOSTON-BOS-TRML 1,570 FTE
STATE-SIZE Smith & Nephew 150 MMP 1,570 FTE
CITY-NEAR 10510 Melrose 150 FTE
CITY-NEAR NAI-0033-0033-03507 FAC-03507-MELROSE-MA 137 FTE
CITY-NEAR 5472-000003507 128 FTE
CITY-NEAR 5472-NAI-0033-0033-03507 121 FTE
NAT-TCR MIG Building Systems #355 10.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 2039-GWINNETT 10.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Accurate Insulation #857 10.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 4769-6073-Williams Sonoma 10.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Commercial HVAC Americas : MFG-La Crosse, WI-USA 1,542 FTE
NAT-SIZE Txfor - Independence Hub 1,540 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1969-FSR1 1,539 FTE
NAT-SIZE Inova Loudoun Hospital 1,539 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 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.