General medical and surgical hospitals · Mississippi

merit health wesley

Hattiesburg, MS · ~852 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
2.3
Avg TCR
7.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

merit health wesley runs at 31% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical General medical and surgical hospitals workplace, earning a grade A.

merit health wesley: 2.3 TCR = 31% of General medical and surgical hospitals BLS 7.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

merit health wesley safety composite

merit health wesley scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 91% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (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).

B

80/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% of industry peers

DART rate
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 91% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.6

2022→2024

merit health wesley injury rate improved

merit health wesley's TCR fell 0.6 from 2.0 in 2022 to 1.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 3.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=2.0 · 2023=3.5 · 2024=1.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade A · TCR 2.3 · 31% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #2/44
  • PHOTO Connecticut Children…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~852 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Connecticut Children's Medical Center (0.0 TCR gap)

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merit health wesley in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows merit health wesley averages 2.3 TCR (31% 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

merit health wesley TCR series: 2022=2 · 2023=3.5 · 2024=1.4 · BLS 7.5

Where merit health wesley falls in its industry

6,862 General medical and surgical h establishments

Safer than 87% 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 #2 safest of 44 General medical and surgical h employers in Mississippi.

merit health wesley (852 employees, TCR 2.3) 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 wesley
merit health wesley (852 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2

merit health wesley 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 1.4 0.0 2 9 0
2023 3.5 1.2 0 24 0
2022 2.0 0.1 4 11 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

622110 · MS · Hattiesburg

6,862 General medical and surgical hospitals employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 4,083 rated employers in Mississippi with headcount on file · 186 employers in Hattiesburg, 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 Connecticut Children's Medical Center 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mariners Hospital 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Advocate Good Shepherd 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Virginia Home for Boys and Girls 2.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bollinger Mississippi Shipbuilding, LLC 850 FTE
STATE-SIZE Progressive Pipeline Construction, LLC - Company 848 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 6072 860 FTE
STATE-SIZE Advanced Distributor Products 861 FTE
CITY-NEAR HATTIESBURG FOOD 8,650 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hattiesburg 4,161 FTE
CITY-NEAR Processing Plant 1,173 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mar-Jac Poultry MS LLC - Processing Plant 1,163 FTE
NAT-TCR Home Care for Seniors Inc, DBA Home Instead 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Sealed Air Corporation 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Boston Concrete Corp. 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Giant 789 2.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Dow Seadrift 852 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wireless Littleton 852 FTE
NAT-SIZE ExxonMobil Baytown Chemical Plant 852 FTE
NAT-SIZE Legacy Treatment Services 852 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. 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.