General medical and surgical hospitals · Kansas

Mercy Hospital Columbus

Columbus, KS · ~64 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
2.6
Avg TCR
7.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Mercy Hospital Columbus runs at 35% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical General medical and surgical hospitals workplace, earning a grade A.

Mercy Hospital Columbus: 2.6 TCR = 35% of General medical and surgical hospitals BLS 7.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Mercy Hospital Columbus safety composite

Mercy Hospital Columbus scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 84% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 32%), 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).

C

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% 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

Mercy Hospital Columbus: 0.0 → 5.2 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 5.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1× in 2019

Mercy Hospital Columbus's TCR rose 5.2 from 0.0 in 2018 to 5.2 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 1× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 622110 · Columbus, KS AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 2.6 · 35% of ind

  • DART 2.6 DART
  • RANK #22/136
  • PHOTO Indiana University H…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~64 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Indiana University Health White Memorial Hospital, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Mercy Hospital Columbus in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Mercy Hospital Columbus averages 2.6 TCR (35% 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 Hospital Columbus TCR series: 2018=0 · 2019=5.2 · BLS 7.5

Where Mercy Hospital Columbus falls in its industry

6,862 General medical and surgical h establishments

Safer than 84% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #22 safest of 136 General medical and surgical h employers in Kansas.

Mercy Hospital Columbus (64 employees, TCR 2.6) 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 Hospital Columbus
Mercy Hospital Columbus (64 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Mercy Hospital Columbus has fewer employees than the General medical and surgical hospitals median and a lower 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
2019 5.2 2.6 2 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

622110 · KS · Columbus

6,862 General medical and surgical hospitals employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 12 employers in Columbus, KS · 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 Indiana University Health White Memorial Hospital, Inc. 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Park Care Pavilion 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR EOHD & Knollwood - 7944 Birmingham Drive 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Children's Hospital Colorado Therapy Care, Parker 2.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE OP KGS DIV GO 64 FTE
STATE-SIZE Excel Constructors, Inc. 64 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sunflower Wind Project 64 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bettis Contractors, Inc. 64 FTE
CITY-NEAR Crossland Construction Company, Inc. 1,154 FTE
CITY-NEAR Crossland Heavy Contractors, Inc 352 FTE
CITY-NEAR 329 - New Albany-OH 103 FTE
CITY-NEAR Medicalodges Columbus 60 FTE
NAT-TCR SVC - The Donatello 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Sales - Palm Aire, Ft. Lauderdale 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR San Antonio Distribution Center 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR DOPS Bridgecrest 2.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE EFI 64 FTE
NAT-SIZE El Paso WECO 64 FTE
NAT-SIZE Buchanan High School 64 FTE
NAT-SIZE Traffic Systems, Inc. 64 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: 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.