General medical and surgical hospitals · Massachusetts

Mercy Medical Center

Name: Mercy Medical Center Workplace Safety Data
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Springfield, MA · ~1,501 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

B
Good Safety Record: 5.7
Avg TCR: 7.5
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Mercy Medical Center runs at 76% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical General medical and surgical hospitals workplace, earning a grade B.

Mercy Medical Center: 5.7 TCR = 76% of General medical and surgical hospitals BLS 7.5 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Mercy Medical Center safety composite

Mercy Medical Center scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% 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).

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): D 5.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% of industry peers
DART rate: F 2.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% 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 Medical Center: 5.9 → 6.5 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 8.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.51× in 2022

Mercy Medical Center's TCR rose 0.6 from 5.9 in 2016 to 6.5 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2020 at 8.7 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.51× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 622110 · Springfield, MA AT/BELOW-IND · LARGE

Grade B · TCR 5.7 · 76% of ind

DART 2.9 DART
RANK #52/87
PHOTO Suburban Hospital
BOOK 7y book
INJ 370 inj
SIZE ~1,501 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Suburban Hospital (0.0 TCR gap)

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5.7
Suburban Hospi

5.7
Heartwood

5.7
Southdale Medi

5.7
ILARL213 ASCEN

5.7

What this shows Mercy Medical Center averages 5.7 TCR (76% of the General medical and surgical hospitals BLS benchmark).

Mercy Medical Center TCR series: 2016=5.9 · 2017=3.6 · 2018=5.1 · 2019=5.1 · 2020=8.7 · 2021=5.3 · 2022=6.5 · BLS 7.5

Where Mercy Medical Center falls in its industry

6,862 General medical and surgical h establishments

Safer than 42% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

Grade B

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #52 safest of 87 General medical and surgical h employers in Massachusetts.

Mercy Medical Center (1,501 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Mercy Medical Center 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
2022	6.5	2.9	53	7
2021	5.3	2.7	48	3
2020	8.7	4.5	53	21
2019	5.1	2.1	53	2
2018	5.1	2.0	61	0
2017	3.6	1.8	39	3
2016	5.9	3.2	63	1

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

622110 · MA · Springfield

6,862 General medical and surgical hospitals employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 215 employers in Springfield, MA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Suburban Hospital	BETHESDA, MD	5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Heartwood	CROSBY, MN	5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Southdale Medical Center	EDINA, MN	5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	ILARL213 ASCENSION MERCY MEDICAL CENTER AURORA	AURORA, IL	5.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE	804 Woburn St. Wilmington, MA	WILMINGTON	1,511 FTE
STATE-SIZE	NBC Operating, LP	FRAMINGHAM	1,483 FTE
STATE-SIZE	COOLEY DICKINSON HOSPITAL	NORTHAMPTON	1,525 FTE
STATE-SIZE	HMH Boston	BOSTON	1,474 FTE
CITY-NEAR	BMC - Baystate Medical Center	Springfield	8,310 FTE
CITY-NEAR	BMP - Baystate Medical Practices	Springfield	1,977 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Blue Tarp Redevelopment, LLC d/b/a MGM Springfield	Springfield	1,867 FTE
CITY-NEAR	BMF - Baystate Medical Practices	Springfield	1,746 FTE
NAT-TCR	Lasseter Tractor Company Inc	Moultrie, GA	5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Providence at Home	Tinley Park, IL	5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Summit Polymers Inc. - Syntech Plant	Sturgis, MI	5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Lunds & Byerlys, Glen Lake	Minnetonka, MN	5.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE	1855-WIMIL32	Milwaukee, WI	1,501 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Ecolab Global Headquarters - St. Paul MN	St. Paul, MN	1,501 FTE
NAT-SIZE	ATLR3~Corporate Headquarters	Atlanta, GA	1,501 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Town of Gilbert	Gilbert, AZ	1,500 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.