General medical and surgical hospitals · Kentucky

Mercy Health Lourdes Hospital

Paducah, KY · ~1,264 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
6.1
Avg TCR
7.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Mercy Health Lourdes Hospital runs at 81% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical General medical and surgical hospitals workplace, earning a grade C.

Mercy Health Lourdes Hospital: 6.1 TCR = 81% of General medical and surgical hospitals BLS 7.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Mercy Health Lourdes Hospital safety composite

Mercy Health Lourdes Hospital scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 65% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 36%), 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

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.1 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.12 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.8

2018→2020

Mercy Health Lourdes Hospital injury rate improved

Mercy Health Lourdes Hospital's TCR fell 2.8 from 7.8 in 2018 to 5.0 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2018 at 7.8 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.18× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=7.8 · 2019=5.5 · 2020=5.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 622110 · Paducah, KY AT/BELOW-IND · LARGE

Grade C · TCR 6.1 · 81% of ind

  • DART 1.1 DART
  • RANK #74/141
  • PHOTO Sampson Reginal Medi…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 161 inj
  • SIZE ~1,264 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sampson Reginal Medical Center (0.0 TCR gap)

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Mercy Health Lourdes Hospital in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Mercy Health Lourdes Hospital averages 6.1 TCR (81% 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

Mercy Health Lourdes Hospital TCR series: 2018=7.8 · 2019=5.5 · 2020=5 · BLS 7.5

Where Mercy Health Lourdes Hospital falls in its industry

6,862 General medical and surgical h establishments

Safer than 36% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #74 safest of 141 General medical and surgical h employers in Kentucky.

Mercy Health Lourdes Hospital (1,264 employees, TCR 6.1) 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 Mercy Health Lourdes Hospital
Mercy Health Lourdes Hospital (1,264 employees, TCR 6.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Mercy Health Lourdes 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
2020 5.0 1.1 48 1 0
2019 5.5 0.3 50 11 0
2018 7.8 2.0 63 14 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

622110 · KY · Paducah

6,862 General medical and surgical hospitals employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 198 employers in Paducah, KY · 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 Sampson Reginal Medical Center 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mid-Valley Hospital 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 64030364-364001 MARIAN REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR EOH Acquisition Group 6.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Robards Plant 1,260 FTE
STATE-SIZE BGKY Henkel Corporation 1,256 FTE
STATE-SIZE Our Lady of Bellefonte Hospital 1,282 FTE
STATE-SIZE St. Claire HealthCare 1,237 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ingram barge Company 2,071 FTE
CITY-NEAR Baptist Health Paducah Hospital 1,605 FTE
CITY-NEAR Baptist Health Paducah 1,459 FTE
CITY-NEAR Baptist Heatlh Paducah 1,398 FTE
NAT-TCR Sanatoga Court 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Country Manor Hlth & Rehab Center 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Enterprise-5499 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Coronado Beach Resort Owners Assn. Inc. 6.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Coty US LLC 1,264 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stratum Health System 1,264 FTE
NAT-SIZE Harry Reid International Airport 1,264 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Arc Jefferson-St Lawrence NY 1,264 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, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.