General medical and surgical hospitals · Missouri

Mercy Hospital South

St Louis, MO · ~3,776 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.4
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Mercy Hospital South runs at 115% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical General medical and surgical hospitals workplace, earning a grade C.

Mercy Hospital South: 4.4 TCR = 115% of General medical and surgical hospitals BLS 3.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Mercy Hospital South safety composite

Mercy Hospital South scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 27%), 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

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% of industry peers

DART rate
F 0.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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%).

Mercy Hospital South held a steady TCR band

Mercy Hospital South's TCR held near 0.3 from 4.2 in 2018 to 4.5 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0.22× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=4.2 · 2019=4.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 621999 · St Louis, MO ABOVE-IND · LARGE

Grade C · TCR 4.4 · 115% of ind

  • DART 1.0 DART
  • RANK P50
  • PHOTO Briarcrest Nursing C…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 191 inj
  • SIZE ~3,776 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Briarcrest Nursing Center (0.0 TCR gap)

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Mercy Hospital South in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Mercy Hospital South averages 4.4 TCR (115% 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 South TCR series: 2018=4.2 · 2019=4.5 · BLS 3.8

Where Mercy Hospital South falls in its industry

461 General medical and surgical h establishments

Safer than 50% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Mercy Hospital South (3,776 employees, TCR 4.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 01,0002,0003,0004,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Mercy Hospital South
Mercy Hospital South (3,776 employees, TCR 4.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Mercy Hospital South has more employees than the General medical and surgical hospitals median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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 4.5 1.0 94 25 0
2018 4.2 1.4 97 15 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

621999 · MO · St Louis

461 General medical and surgical hospitals employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,075 rated employers in Missouri with headcount on file · 349 employers in St Louis, 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 Briarcrest Nursing Center 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Arbor Terrace Healthcare Center 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 5087 - FL Manatee County 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Margaretville Hospital 4.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Freeman Health System 3,718 FTE
STATE-SIZE WHQ Campus 3,843 FTE
STATE-SIZE St. Anthony's Medical Center 3,706 FTE
STATE-SIZE St. Luke's Hospital 3,689 FTE
CITY-NEAR MERCY HOSPITAL ST LOUIS 5,790 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4M Building Solutions 2,111 FTE
CITY-NEAR HES Facilities Services Higher Education 1,607 FTE
CITY-NEAR Clayco Inc 1,300 FTE
NAT-TCR Shelby AL Steel Truss 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Worldmark Reunion 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Mosaic Lubbock 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Oak Park Nursing and Rehabilitation Center 4.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Dakota City Plant 3,776 FTE
NAT-SIZE Johnson and Johnson MDD CSS Irvine 3,775 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mercury Marine FdL Campus 3,778 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - SYR1 3,773 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.

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

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