General medical and surgical hospitals · North Carolina

Novant Health Matthews Medical Center

Matthews, NC · ~1,070 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
4.1
Avg TCR
7.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Novant Health Matthews Medical Center runs at 55% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical General medical and surgical hospitals workplace, earning a grade B.

Novant Health Matthews Medical Center: 4.1 TCR = 55% of General medical and surgical hospitals BLS 7.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Novant Health Matthews Medical Center safety composite

Novant Health Matthews Medical Center scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 73% 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).

C

65/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% 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%).

Novant Health Matthews Medical Center held a steady TCR band

Novant Health Matthews Medical Center's TCR held near 0.0 from 3.9 in 2022 to 3.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 4.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.19× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=3.9 · 2023=4.5 · 2024=3.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 622110 · Matthews, NC AT/BELOW-IND · LARGE

Grade B · TCR 4.1 · 55% of ind

  • DART 0.8 DART
  • RANK #63/175
  • PHOTO Humboldt Park Health
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 91 inj
  • SIZE ~1,070 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Humboldt Park Health (0.0 TCR gap)

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Novant Health Matthews Medical Center in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Novant Health Matthews Medical Center averages 4.1 TCR (55% 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

Novant Health Matthews Medical Center TCR series: 2022=3.9 · 2023=4.5 · 2024=3.9 · BLS 7.5

Where Novant Health Matthews Medical Center falls in its industry

6,862 General medical and surgical h establishments

Safer than 65% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #63 safest of 175 General medical and surgical h employers in North Carolina.

Novant Health Matthews Medical Center (1,070 employees, TCR 4.1) 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 Novant Health Matthews Medical Center
Novant Health Matthews Medical Center (1,070 employees, TCR 4.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Novant Health Matthews Medical Center has more employees than the General medical and surgical hospitals 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 3.9 0.8 28 2 0
2023 4.5 2.5 33 0 0
2022 3.9 1.4 30 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

622110 · NC · Matthews

6,862 General medical and surgical hospitals employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 94 employers in Matthews, NC · 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 Humboldt Park Health 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Preston Memorial Hospital 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pella Regional Health Center 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2004-20049300 4.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Rockingham Plant 1,066 FTE
STATE-SIZE M+H Fayetteville Plant 1,066 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kidde Aerospace & Defense 1,064 FTE
STATE-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - RDU5 1,063 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6921-06000 688 FTE
CITY-NEAR DC201 DC201 MATTHEWS NC 518 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4186-DC201 353 FTE
CITY-NEAR Berry Global - Matthews 297 FTE
NAT-TCR Scarianos - Hammond 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Kay Concrete Materials 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Cold Storage Warehouse 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Overhead Corporation 4.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE DGS Construction, LLC 1,070 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ironwood State Prison 1,070 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cedar Crest Village 1,070 FTE
NAT-SIZE McNeill Labor Management, Inc. 1,070 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.