Hospitals, general medical and surgical · Mississippi

Merit Health River Region

Vicksburg, MS · ~781 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
8.0
Avg TCR
7.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Merit Health River Region runs at 107% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Hospitals, general medical and surgical workplace, earning a grade C.

Merit Health River Region: 8.0 TCR = 107% of Hospitals, general medical and surgical BLS 7.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Merit Health River Region safety composite

Merit Health River Region scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 17%), 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

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% 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

Merit Health River Region: 5.9 → 9.0 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 11.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.05× in 2024

Merit Health River Region's TCR rose 3.1 from 5.9 in 2017 to 9.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 11.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.05× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 622110 · Vicksburg, MS ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 8.0 · 107% of ind

  • DART 0.4 DART
  • RANK #36/44
  • PHOTO Sidney Regional Medi…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 124 inj
  • SIZE ~781 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sidney Regional Medical Center (0.0 TCR gap)

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Merit Health River Region in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Merit Health River Region averages 8.0 TCR (107% 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 River Region TCR series: 2017=5.9 · 2022=11.6 · 2023=5.7 · 2024=9 · BLS 7.5

Where Merit Health River Region falls in its industry

6,862 Hospitals, general medical and establishments

Safer than 17% 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 #36 safest of 44 Hospitals, general medical and employers in Mississippi.

Merit Health River Region (781 employees, TCR 8.0) 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 River Region
Merit Health River Region (781 employees, TCR 8.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Merit Health River Region has more employees than the Hospitals, general medical and surgical 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 Fatalities
2024 9.0 0.4 25 24 0
2023 5.7 0.6 26 1 0
2022 11.6 5.9 36 32 0
2017 5.9 1.8 37 5 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

622110 · MS · Vicksburg

6,862 Hospitals, general medical and surgical employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 4,083 rated employers in Mississippi with headcount on file · 68 employers in Vicksburg, 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 Sidney Regional Medical Center 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Geauga Medical Center 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Community Health Network North 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR St. Joseph Hospital 8.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Grand Gulf Nuclear Station 779 FTE
STATE-SIZE VT Halter Marine 292 Pascagoula 777 FTE
STATE-SIZE 6072 790 FTE
STATE-SIZE Koch Foods Prepared Plant 770 FTE
CITY-NEAR ACE-IT 623 FTE
CITY-NEAR Casino and Hotel 600 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ceres Plant 550 FTE
CITY-NEAR Vicksburg Plant 440 FTE
NAT-TCR Boekel Industries, Inc 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Ecdc Bldg 23 - 3039 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Fox Lake Il - 3119 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Precast - SC Plant 8.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hooper - WI 781 FTE
NAT-SIZE John Zink Company LLC 781 FTE
NAT-SIZE Caldwell Memorial Hospital 781 FTE
NAT-SIZE AdventHealth Carrollwood 781 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, 2017. 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.