General medical and surgical hospitals · Maryland

Meritus Health

Hagerstown, MD · ~2,796 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore Editorial, Employer Workplace Safety Editorial Team · May 15, 2026

C
Average Safety Record: 6.7
Avg TCR: 7.5
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

The verdict

Meritus Health runs at 90% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical General medical and surgical hospitals workplace, earning a grade C.

C
Average Safety Record: 6.7
avg TCR · per 100 workers: 7.5
industry benchmark (BLS): 795
recordable injuries tracked

Grade compares Meritus Health's OSHA Total Case Rate of 6.7 to the General medical and surgical hospitals BLS benchmark of 7.5 (90% of benchmark) across 6 years of Form 300A filings (2016–2024). <a href="/methodology">See methodology</a> for reporting-limitation caveats.

Injury rate over time

Meritus Health's yearly Total Case Rate, against the 7.5 industry benchmark.

Total Case Rate (recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers), OSHA ITA Form 300A. Industry benchmark: BLS IIF, NAICS 622110.

Where Meritus Health falls in its industry

7,181 General medical and surgical h establishments

Safer than 27% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.0.

Grade C

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Maryland alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #62 safest of 75 General medical and surgical h employers in Maryland.

Trend analysis for Meritus Health

Between 2018 and 2023, Meritus Health's Total Case Rate worsened from 4.7 to 6.5 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers, a 38% increase across 5 years of OSHA reporting.

The safest year on record was 2018, at a TCR of 4.7, while 2019 saw the highest rate, at 8.0, a spread of 3.3 points between the best and worst reporting years. That's a wide swing relative to the establishment's overall rate, worth checking the year-by-year table below for whether a single severe year is driving the average, rather than a sustained trend.

Summed across those 6 reporting years, Meritus Health recorded 795 total injuries and illnesses, with no fatalities reported in any of those years. Readers comparing establishments should weigh the 6-year trend above alongside establishment size, since a larger workforce naturally accumulates more raw incidents even at a lower per-100-worker rate.

Verify This Employer with OSHA

The 795 injuries, 74 illnesses shown on this page for Meritus Health are sourced from its own 6 years of mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source, name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.

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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 622110 - General medical and surgical hospitals.

DART Rate, Transparent Calculation (2023)

What is the DART rate formula?

DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.

43 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 4,992,161 hours worked = 1.72 DART

Methodology: 29 CFR 1904, OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping

Cross-Validating Context, Establishment vs Industry vs State

Benchmark	TCR	Source
Meritus Health (this establishment)	6.73	OSHA ITA Form 300A, 6-year avg
Hospitals, general medical and surgical industry avg	7.50	BLS IIF, NAICS 622110
Maryland state avg (all industries)	4.70	OSHA ITA, state-level rollup

Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program

Reportable Incident Timeline

Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by Meritus Health to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.

2023: 161 reportable incidents · 154 injuries, 7 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
2022: 153 reportable incidents · 151 injuries, 2 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
2021: 161 reportable incidents · 147 injuries, 14 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
2020: 146 reportable incidents · 130 injuries, 16 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
2019: 159 reportable incidents · 126 injuries, 33 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
2018: 89 reportable incidents · 87 injuries, 2 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)

Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) - inspection case-number records

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year	TCR	DART	Injuries	Illnesses
2023	6.5	1.7	154	7
2022	6.3	2.0	151	2
2021	7.9	1.2	147	14
2020	7.1	1.7	130	16
2019	8.0	1.1	126	33
2018	4.7	2.0	87	2

What this grade means for you

Use this grade as a relative read on Meritus Health's reported OSHA injury record, strong versus its General medical and surgical hospitals peers, but not a guarantee about any single site today.

At 90% of the General medical and surgical hospitals benchmark, Meritus Health reports fewer injuries than typical peers, still worth asking how safety is managed day to day. Know your rights
Judge this record against the wider General medical and surgical hospitals sector, where injury rates vary widely, before comparing it in isolation. See the industry
Grades reflect 2016–2024 filings; check the latest establishment record straight from OSHA, or look up a different employer. Look up another

Safety grades reflect employers' self-reported OSHA Form 300A filings from 2016 to 2024 and can lag current conditions. A grade is not a guarantee that any specific workplace is safe or unsafe today. See our methodology and disclaimer.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Meritus Health's safety grade?

Meritus Health has a safety grade of C (Average Safety Record). This grade is based on their average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 6.7 compared to the BLS industry benchmark of 7.5 for General medical and surgical hospitals.

How many injuries has Meritus Health reported?

Meritus Health has reported 795 total injuries and 0 fatalities across 6 years of OSHA data (2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018). This data comes from mandatory OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA) reports.

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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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 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. Retrieved and formatted by PlainSafetyScore Editorial

Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.