General medical and surgical hospitals · Maine

Northern Light Maine Coast Hospital

Ellsworth, ME · ~492 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
10.3
Avg TCR
7.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Northern Light Maine Coast Hospital runs at 138% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical General medical and surgical hospitals workplace, earning a grade D.

Northern Light Maine Coast Hospital: 10.3 TCR = 138% of General medical and surgical hospitals BLS 7.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Northern Light Maine Coast Hospital safety composite

Northern Light Maine Coast Hospital scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 7%), 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).

F

19/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% 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

Northern Light Maine Coast Hospital: 8.3 → 10.0 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 11.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.58× in 2023

Northern Light Maine Coast Hospital's TCR rose 1.7 from 8.3 in 2018 to 10.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2019 at 11.7 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.58× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 622110 · Ellsworth, ME ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 10.3 · 138% of ind

  • DART 6.0 DART
  • RANK #38/47
  • PHOTO Saint Luke's South S…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 205 inj
  • SIZE ~492 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Saint Luke's South Surgery Center (0.0 TCR gap)

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Northern Light Maine Coast Hospital in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Northern Light Maine Coast Hospital averages 10.3 TCR (138% 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

Northern Light Maine Coast Hospital TCR series: 2018=8.3 · 2019=11.7 · 2020=10.7 · 2021=9.8 · 2022=11.6 · 2023=10 · BLS 7.5

Where Northern Light Maine Coast Hospital falls in its industry

6,862 General medical and surgical h establishments

Safer than 7% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Maine alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #38 safest of 47 General medical and surgical h employers in Maine.

Northern Light Maine Coast Hospital (492 employees, TCR 10.3) 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 Northern Light Maine Coast Hospital
Northern Light Maine Coast Hospital (492 employees, TCR 10.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Northern Light Maine Coast Hospital 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 Fatalities
2023 10.0 6.0 24 14 0
2022 11.6 7.1 42 2 0
2021 9.8 4.7 38 0 0
2020 10.7 6.4 35 0 0
2019 11.7 5.4 39 0 0
2018 8.3 3.7 27 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

622110 · ME · Ellsworth

6,862 General medical and surgical hospitals employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 2,397 rated employers in Maine with headcount on file · 33 employers in Ellsworth, ME · 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 Saint Luke's South Surgery Center 10.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Beth Israel Deaconess Plymouth 10.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR St. Joseph Hospital Family Medicine & Specialty Services Milford 10.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Metropolitan Methodist Hospital 10.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Brock Auburn Gorham Area 492 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 1868 490 FTE
STATE-SIZE SHH - 123 Andover 488 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 1856 499 FTE
CITY-NEAR Maine Coast Memorial Hospital 527 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1932 353 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1932 300 FTE
CITY-NEAR 08123 - Store # 8123 Ellsworth 203 FTE
NAT-TCR Pete's Fresh Market 95th Corporation 10.3 TCR
NAT-TCR C&D Lumber LLC 10.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Monarch Casino Resort Spa 10.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Premier Concrete Products 10.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sugar Creek Packing Co. CCI 492 FTE
NAT-SIZE Clearwater Paper Shelby LLC 492 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tasty Baking Company 492 FTE
NAT-SIZE Arthrex Manufacturing South Carolina 492 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.