General medical and surgical hospitals · Kansas

Norton County Hospital

Norton, KS · ~117 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
5.2
Avg TCR
7.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Norton County Hospital runs at 70% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical General medical and surgical hospitals workplace, earning a grade B.

Norton County Hospital: 5.2 TCR = 70% of General medical and surgical hospitals BLS 7.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Norton County Hospital safety composite

Norton County Hospital scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 67% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 49%), 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).

C

56/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% 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

−7.2

2018→2020

Norton County Hospital injury rate improved

Norton County Hospital's TCR fell 7.2 from 8.2 in 2018 to 1.0 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2018 at 8.2 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.19× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=8.2 · 2019=6.5 · 2020=1.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 622110 · Norton, KS AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 5.2 · 70% of ind

  • DART 1.0 DART
  • RANK #83/136
  • PHOTO Pinnacle Health Emer…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~117 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Pinnacle Health Emergency Department Services (0.0 TCR gap)

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Norton County Hospital in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Norton County Hospital averages 5.2 TCR (70% 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

Norton County Hospital TCR series: 2018=8.2 · 2019=6.5 · 2020=1 · BLS 7.5

Where Norton County Hospital falls in its industry

6,862 General medical and surgical h establishments

Safer than 49% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #83 safest of 136 General medical and surgical h employers in Kansas.

Norton County Hospital (117 employees, TCR 5.2) 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 County Hospital
Norton County Hospital (117 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Norton County Hospital has fewer 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
2020 1.0 1.0 1 0 0
2019 6.5 0.0 6 0 0
2018 8.2 0.9 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

622110 · KS · Norton

6,862 General medical and surgical hospitals employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 7 employers in Norton, KS · 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 Pinnacle Health Emergency Department Services 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lourdes Hospital 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR OLG Lafayette General Orthopedic Hospital 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 32nd Ave Building -Fargo 5.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE United Excel 117 FTE
STATE-SIZE Canyon Stone 117 FTE
STATE-SIZE Milacron / Wear Technology 117 FTE
STATE-SIZE Matcor Metal Fabrication 117 FTE
CITY-NEAR New Age Industrial HQ 146 FTE
CITY-NEAR Natoma Manufacturing, LLC 70 FTE
CITY-NEAR Norton Valley Hope 47 FTE
CITY-NEAR Valley Hope Association 37 FTE
NAT-TCR Heartland of Willoughby 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Ground Effects Warren 1990 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR NFS:NFSG1 - NFSG1-St George Office 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Christus Spohn-MOB 5.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Heraeus Prescious Metals North America LLC 117 FTE
NAT-SIZE Waskey Bridges, Inc. 117 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rhythms Home Care 117 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hillside Manor 117 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: 2020, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.