General medical and surgical hospitals · Vermont

Northwestern Medical Center

St Albans, VT · ~791 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
5.5
Avg TCR
7.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Northwestern Medical Center runs at 74% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical General medical and surgical hospitals workplace, earning a grade B.

Northwestern Medical Center: 5.5 TCR = 74% of General medical and surgical hospitals BLS 7.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Northwestern Medical Center safety composite

Northwestern Medical Center scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 34%), 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

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% 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

−1.1

2016→2019

Northwestern Medical Center injury rate improved

Northwestern Medical Center's TCR fell 1.1 from 6.1 in 2016 to 5.0 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2016 at 6.1 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.44× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=6.1 · 2019=5.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 622110 · St Albans, VT AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 5.5 · 74% of ind

  • DART 2.4 DART
  • RANK #3/5
  • PHOTO Methodist Hospital
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 74 inj
  • SIZE ~791 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Methodist Hospital (0.0 TCR gap)

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Northwestern Medical Center in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Northwestern Medical Center averages 5.5 TCR (74% 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

Northwestern Medical Center TCR series: 2016=6.1 · 2019=5 · BLS 7.5

Where Northwestern Medical Center falls in its industry

6,862 General medical and surgical h establishments

Safer than 44% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Vermont alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 5 General medical and surgical h employers in Vermont.

Northwestern Medical Center (791 employees, TCR 5.5) 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 Northwestern Medical Center
Northwestern Medical Center (791 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Northwestern Medical Center 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
2019 5.0 2.4 37 0 0
2016 6.1 2.0 37 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

622110 · VT · St Albans

6,862 General medical and surgical hospitals employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,065 rated employers in Vermont with headcount on file · 6 employers in St Albans, VT · 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 Methodist Hospital 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR MIKAL1 MI KALAMAZOO BORGESS MEDCTR 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Oneida Health Systems Inc. 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Baptist Nassau 5.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Goodrich - Sensors and Integrated Systems - Vergennes VT 781 FTE
STATE-SIZE Essex Westford School District 838 FTE
STATE-SIZE Killington/Pico Ski Resort Partners LLC. 844 FTE
STATE-SIZE Brattleboro Memorial Hospital 669 FTE
CITY-NEAR 08355 - Store # 8355 St Albans 229 FTE
CITY-NEAR St Albans Vermont Site 190 FTE
CITY-NEAR McDermotts Transportation Inc. 97 FTE
CITY-NEAR St Albans Cooperative Creamery Inc. 91 FTE
NAT-TCR U.S. Nameplate Co. 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR LCN 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 17th Street 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Georgia Core/Jacket Cartersville 5.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Corporate Headquarters 791 FTE
NAT-SIZE Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A. Inc. 791 FTE
NAT-SIZE NorthStar Energy Services, Inc. 791 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2045-00003W 791 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: 2019, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.