Hospitals, general medical and surgical · Mississippi

Merit Health Natchez

Natchez, MS · ~259 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
7.5
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Merit Health Natchez runs at 54% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Hospitals, general medical and surgical workplace, earning a grade B.

Merit Health Natchez: 4.0 TCR = 54% of Hospitals, general medical and surgical BLS 7.5 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Merit Health Natchez safety composite

Merit Health Natchez scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 91% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 2%), 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 4.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 66% of industry peers

DART rate
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 91% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 2% 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

Merit Health Natchez: 3.4 → 5.5 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 10.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Merit Health Natchez's TCR rose 2.1 from 3.4 in 2016 to 5.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 10.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 622110 · Natchez, MS AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 4.0 · 54% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #16/44
  • PHOTO Hospital
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 52 inj
  • SIZE ~259 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hospital (0.0 TCR gap)

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Merit Health Natchez in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Merit Health Natchez averages 4.0 TCR (54% of the Hospitals, general medical and surgical BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Merit Health Natchez TCR series: 2016=3.4 · 2018=0 · 2019=4.7 · 2020=0 · 2021=10.9 · 2023=3.9 · 2024=5.5 · BLS 7.5

Where Merit Health Natchez falls in its industry

6,862 Hospitals, general medical and establishments

Safer than 66% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Mississippi alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #16 safest of 44 Hospitals, general medical and employers in Mississippi.

Merit Health Natchez (259 employees, TCR 4.0) 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 Merit Health Natchez
Merit Health Natchez (259 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Merit Health Natchez has fewer employees than the Hospitals, general medical and surgical 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 0.0 16 0 0
2023 3.9 0.0 10 3 0
2021 10.9 10.0 6 33 1
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 4.7 0.3 19 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 3.4 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

622110 · MS · Natchez

6,862 Hospitals, general medical and surgical employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 4,083 rated employers in Mississippi with headcount on file · 44 employers in Natchez, MS · 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 Hospital 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Newberry County Memorial Hospital 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR PR Leasing BayCare Alliant Hospital (8964) 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hancock County Health System 4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE ZA Construction - MS 259 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kimberly Clark GNW 259 FTE
STATE-SIZE Belmont 259 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 1468 259 FTE
CITY-NEAR Natchez 6,182 FTE
CITY-NEAR Jordan Carriers 564 FTE
CITY-NEAR ADAMS COUNTY, MS 371 FTE
CITY-NEAR 874 329 FTE
NAT-TCR 3082 Swn116 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Behavior Management Systems 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Exhale Atlantic City 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Grass Farm, William Y. Gil Inc. 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hexcel 259 FTE
NAT-SIZE United Piping Inc. 259 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kurt J Lesker Company 259 FTE
NAT-SIZE TenCate Grass 259 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2016. 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.