Healthcare · Kentucky

Norton Children's Hospital NCH

Louisville, KY · ~1,912 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
2.2
Avg TCR
7.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Norton Children's Hospital NCH runs at 29% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Healthcare workplace, earning a grade A.

Norton Children's Hospital NCH: 2.2 TCR = 29% of Healthcare BLS 7.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Norton Children's Hospital NCH safety composite

Norton Children's Hospital NCH scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 88% 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

77/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 88% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0.26 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%).

Norton Children's Hospital NCH held a steady TCR band

Norton Children's Hospital NCH's TCR held near 0.0 from 2.3 in 2018 to 2.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 2.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.12× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=2.3 · 2019=1.6 · 2021=2.8 · 2022=1.9 · 2023=2.2 · 2024=2.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 622110 · Louisville, KY AT/BELOW-IND · LARGE

Grade A · TCR 2.2 · 29% of ind

  • DART 0.3 DART
  • RANK #7/141
  • PHOTO TriStar Skyline Madi…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 174 inj
  • SIZE ~1,912 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: TriStar Skyline Madison Behavioral Campus (0.0 TCR gap)

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Norton Children's Hospital NCH in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Norton Children's Hospital NCH averages 2.2 TCR (29% of the Healthcare BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Norton Children's Hospital NCH TCR series: 2018=2.3 · 2019=1.6 · 2021=2.8 · 2022=1.9 · 2023=2.2 · 2024=2.3 · BLS 7.5

Where Norton Children's Hospital NCH falls in its industry

6,862 Healthcare establishments

Safer than 88% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 141 Healthcare employers in Kentucky.

Norton Children's Hospital NCH (1,912 employees, TCR 2.2) 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 Norton Children's Hospital NCH
Norton Children's Hospital NCH (1,912 employees, TCR 2.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Norton Children's Hospital NCH has more employees than the Healthcare 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 2.3 0.3 35 0 0
2023 2.2 0.7 29 0 0
2022 1.9 0.3 26 0 0
2021 2.8 0.8 34 4 0
2019 1.6 0.5 21 0 0
2018 2.3 0.7 29 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

622110 · KY · Louisville

6,862 Healthcare employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 1,638 employers in Louisville, KY · 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 TriStar Skyline Madison Behavioral Campus 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR ININD509 ASCENSION ST VINCENT WILLIAMSPORT 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR ST LUCIE WEST MED CENTER 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Guthrie Troy Community Hospital 2.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE ASHBOTTOM HUB (KYASH) 1,905 FTE
STATE-SIZE Metalsa 1,921 FTE
STATE-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - LEX2 1,891 FTE
STATE-SIZE UPSCO AIRLINE (KYALN) 1,944 FTE
CITY-NEAR Jefferson County Public Schools 18,524 FTE
CITY-NEAR KYGRA - WORLDPORT 11,933 FTE
CITY-NEAR WORLDPORT (KYGRA) 9,667 FTE
CITY-NEAR KTKY TRUCK 8,757 FTE
NAT-TCR Aiken County Government Center 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Curtis Electrical Construction 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 40156 - Capstone Supervalu Quincy Fl 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Patrick Lynch Elementary 2.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lutheran Medical Center 1,912 FTE
NAT-SIZE West Penn Hospital 1,911 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - EWR8 1,911 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1855-TNNAS43 1,913 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, 2021, 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.