Hospitals, general medical and surgical · Illinois

Northwestern Memorial HealthCare

Chicago, IL · ~4,470 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.5
Avg TCR
7.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Northwestern Memorial HealthCare runs at 7% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Hospitals, general medical and surgical workplace, earning a grade A.

Northwestern Memorial HealthCare: 0.5 TCR = 7% of Hospitals, general medical and surgical BLS 7.5 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Northwestern Memorial HealthCare safety composite

Northwestern Memorial HealthCare scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 98% 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

81/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 98% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% 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%).

Northwestern Memorial HealthCare held a steady TCR band

Northwestern Memorial HealthCare's TCR held near 0.2 from 0.6 in 2016 to 0.3 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2018 at 0.8 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.48× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.6 · 2018=0.8 · 2019=0.6 · 2020=0.3 · 2021=0.6 · 2022=0.3 · 2023=0.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 622110 · Chicago, IL AT/BELOW-IND · LARGE

Grade A · TCR 0.5 · 7% of ind

  • DART 0.2 DART
  • RANK #9/300
  • PHOTO Baylor Scott & White…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 127 inj
  • SIZE ~4,470 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Baylor Scott & White The Heart Hospital - McKinney (0.0 TCR gap)

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Northwestern Memorial HealthCare in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Northwestern Memorial HealthCare averages 0.5 TCR (7% 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

Northwestern Memorial HealthCare TCR series: 2016=0.6 · 2018=0.8 · 2019=0.6 · 2020=0.3 · 2021=0.6 · 2022=0.3 · 2023=0.3 · BLS 7.5

Where Northwestern Memorial HealthCare falls in its industry

6,862 Hospitals, general medical and establishments

Safer than 98% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 300 Hospitals, general medical and employers in Illinois.

Northwestern Memorial HealthCare (4,470 employees, TCR 0.5) 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 Memorial HealthCare
Northwestern Memorial HealthCare (4,470 employees, TCR 0.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Northwestern Memorial HealthCare has more employees than the Hospitals, general medical and surgical 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
2023 0.3 0.2 17 0 0
2022 0.3 0.2 13 0 0
2021 0.6 0.2 26 0 0
2020 0.3 0.2 13 0 0
2019 0.6 0.3 23 0 0
2018 0.8 0.4 23 4 0
2016 0.6 0.4 12 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

622110 · IL · Chicago

6,862 Hospitals, general medical and surgical employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 2,934 employers in Chicago, IL · 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 Baylor Scott & White The Heart Hospital - McKinney 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Adventist Healthcare Support Center to SGMC 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Meriter Deming Way 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR SH - Regional Lab 0.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE IL-01 4,581 FTE
STATE-SIZE North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : MDW7 4,349 FTE
STATE-SIZE WHQ WHQ 4,633 FTE
STATE-SIZE Advocate Lutheran General Hospital 4,306 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chicago Public Schools 49,500 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chicago/Corporate 18,831 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Illinois at Chicago 13,092 FTE
CITY-NEAR University Health Service UIC UIC Campus 12,732 FTE
NAT-TCR Advanced Manufacturing Center 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Dept. of Law (8) 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Kuehne + Nagel Inc. (ATL-6321) 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR BOEN Cambridge Engineering Office 0.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Thomson Reuters - Eagan 4,474 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hii - Technical Solutions Division 4,475 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rahway, NJ Facility 4,475 FTE
NAT-SIZE Janssen Titusville 4,461 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, 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.