General medical and surgical hospitals · Missouri

Mercy Hospital Joplin

Joplin, MO · ~1,561 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
3.8
Avg TCR
7.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Mercy Hospital Joplin runs at 50% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical General medical and surgical hospitals workplace, earning a grade B.

Mercy Hospital Joplin: 3.8 TCR = 50% of General medical and surgical hospitals BLS 7.5 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Mercy Hospital Joplin safety composite

Mercy Hospital Joplin scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 52%), 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

59/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.62 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%).

Rising injury rate

Mercy Hospital Joplin: 3.3 → 5.5 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 5.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.43× in 2024

Mercy Hospital Joplin's TCR rose 2.2 from 3.3 in 2018 to 5.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.43× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 622110 · Joplin, MO AT/BELOW-IND · LARGE

Grade B · TCR 3.8 · 50% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK #30/115
  • PHOTO Avera Gregory Hospital
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 316 inj
  • SIZE ~1,561 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Avera Gregory Hospital (0.0 TCR gap)

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Mercy Hospital Joplin in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Mercy Hospital Joplin averages 3.8 TCR (50% 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 Joplin TCR series: 2018=3.3 · 2019=3.7 · 2020=3.2 · 2021=3 · 2022=3.2 · 2023=4.5 · 2024=5.5 · BLS 7.5

Where Mercy Hospital Joplin falls in its industry

6,862 General medical and surgical h establishments

Safer than 70% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Missouri alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #30 safest of 115 General medical and surgical h employers in Missouri.

Mercy Hospital Joplin (1,561 employees, TCR 3.8) 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 Joplin
Mercy Hospital Joplin (1,561 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Mercy Hospital Joplin has more 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
2024 5.5 1.6 59 9 0
2023 4.5 0.8 39 0 0
2022 3.2 0.7 41 0 0
2021 3.0 0.8 38 0 0
2020 3.2 1.4 38 7 0
2019 3.7 1.8 56 0 0
2018 3.3 1.1 45 4 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

622110 · MO · Joplin

6,862 General medical and surgical hospitals employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,075 rated employers in Missouri with headcount on file · 203 employers in Joplin, MO · 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 Avera Gregory Hospital 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR BSW-HOME CARE AND HOSPICE 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Osceola Regional Health Center 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2643-46230001-462301 3.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Boone Hospital Center 1,562 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sedalia Plant 1,556 FTE
STATE-SIZE Olin-Winchester LLC 1,582 FTE
STATE-SIZE WFF Services 1,600 FTE
CITY-NEAR Freeman Health System 3,718 FTE
CITY-NEAR Marmic Fire & Safety Company Inc. 875 FTE
CITY-NEAR Jasper Products, LLC 782 FTE
CITY-NEAR Alorica Customer Care, Inc - Joplin 732 FTE
NAT-TCR 10715 17th Street 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Emerald Trace 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 10086 Marlton 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 1456 3.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Enerfab Power and Industrial, LLC. 1,561 FTE
NAT-SIZE Montgomery 1,561 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dollywood 1,561 FTE
NAT-SIZE Spartanburg County Government 1,561 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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