General medical and surgical hospitals · North Carolina

Novant Health Pender Medical Center

Burgaw, NC · ~195 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
5.8
Avg TCR
7.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Novant Health Pender Medical Center runs at 77% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical General medical and surgical hospitals workplace, earning a grade B.

Novant Health Pender Medical Center: 5.8 TCR = 77% of General medical and surgical hospitals BLS 7.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Novant Health Pender Medical Center safety composite

Novant Health Pender Medical Center scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 29%), 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

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Novant Health Pender Medical Center: 5.3 → 6.3 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 6.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.49× in 2024

Novant Health Pender Medical Center's TCR rose 1.1 from 5.3 in 2023 to 6.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.49× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 622110 · Burgaw, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 5.8 · 77% of ind

  • DART 2.8 DART
  • RANK #112/175
  • PHOTO AdventHealth Daytona…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~195 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: AdventHealth Daytona Beach (0.0 TCR gap)

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Novant Health Pender Medical Center in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Novant Health Pender Medical Center averages 5.8 TCR (77% 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 Pender Medical Center TCR series: 2023=5.3 · 2024=6.3 · BLS 7.5

Where Novant Health Pender Medical Center falls in its industry

6,862 General medical and surgical h establishments

Safer than 40% 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 #112 safest of 175 General medical and surgical h employers in North Carolina.

Novant Health Pender Medical Center (195 employees, TCR 5.8) 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 Pender Medical Center
Novant Health Pender Medical Center (195 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Novant Health Pender Medical Center 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
2024 6.3 2.8 9 0 0
2023 5.3 2.6 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

622110 · NC · Burgaw

6,862 General medical and surgical hospitals employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 23 employers in Burgaw, 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 AdventHealth Daytona Beach 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR UC Irvine Health 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Riverton Hospital 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR American Fork Hospital 5.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE BE&K Building Group, LLC 195 FTE
STATE-SIZE LJ Electrical Inc. 195 FTE
STATE-SIZE Commercial Park 195 FTE
STATE-SIZE King Hickory Furniture Company 195 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pender County Government 550 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pender Memorial Hospital 239 FTE
CITY-NEAR Burgaw 223 FTE
CITY-NEAR EMS STATIONS 198 FTE
NAT-TCR Portland Holiday Inn 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Sonesta ES Suites Anaheim 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Brookdale Beaverton 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Danbury Broadview Heights 5.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Claire Manufacturing 195 FTE
NAT-SIZE Flower City Group 195 FTE
NAT-SIZE LSB Industries - El Dorado 195 FTE
NAT-SIZE USA Los Angeles 9775 Airport Blvd 195 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. 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.