Hospitals, general medical and surgical · Illinois

Palos Community Hospital

Palos Heights, IL · ~2,224 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
5.9
Avg TCR
7.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
Subscribe to safety-record updates (RSS)

The verdict

Palos Community Hospital runs at 79% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Hospitals, general medical and surgical workplace, earning a grade B.

Palos Community Hospital: 5.9 TCR = 79% of Hospitals, general medical and surgical BLS 7.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Palos Community Hospital safety composite

Palos Community Hospital scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 18%), 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

35/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% 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

Palos Community Hospital: 5.8 → 6.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 6.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.63× in 2024

Palos Community Hospital's TCR rose 0.6 from 5.8 in 2022 to 6.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.63× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade B · TCR 5.9 · 79% of ind

  • DART 3.7 DART
  • RANK #171/300
  • PHOTO AdventHealth Henders…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 295 inj
  • SIZE ~2,224 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: AdventHealth Hendersonville (0.0 TCR gap)

Read with this employer → · Industry book → · Illinois employers → · Look up another →

Palos Community Hospital in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Palos Community Hospital averages 5.9 TCR (79% 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

Palos Community Hospital TCR series: 2022=5.8 · 2023=5.6 · 2024=6.4 · BLS 7.5

Where Palos Community Hospital falls in its industry

6,862 Hospitals, general medical and establishments

Safer than 39% 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 #171 safest of 300 Hospitals, general medical and employers in Illinois.

Palos Community Hospital (2,224 employees, TCR 5.9) 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 Palos Community Hospital
Palos Community Hospital (2,224 employees, TCR 5.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Palos Community Hospital has more employees than the Hospitals, general medical and surgical 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 6.4 3.7 114 0 0
2023 5.6 2.8 91 0 0
2022 5.8 3.2 90 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

622110 · IL · Palos Heights

6,862 Hospitals, general medical and surgical employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 22 employers in Palos Heights, 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 AdventHealth Hendersonville 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bronson Methodist Hospital 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sevier Valley Hospital 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mercy Hospital Anderson 5.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE HALO Branded Solutions, Inc. 2,215 FTE
STATE-SIZE ILADD - ADDISON A BUILDING 2,237 FTE
STATE-SIZE US Foods, Inc. Rosemont 2,239 FTE
STATE-SIZE S&C Electric Company Chicago 2,243 FTE
CITY-NEAR Providence Life Services 843 FTE
CITY-NEAR Manor Care Health Services - Palos Heights East 283 FTE
CITY-NEAR Parks and Recreation 258 FTE
CITY-NEAR 5472-NAI-0032-0032-03053 178 FTE
NAT-TCR Mike Reed Chevrolet Inc 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Soli Organic Inc. - Harrisonburg Biofarm 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Gilbert Tiger Enterprise 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Nexus-SERCC Family Healing 5.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE 2904-ASM-FL 2,222 FTE
NAT-SIZE Primay Beef - Schuyler Location 2,222 FTE
NAT-SIZE Shoe Palace Corporation 2,227 FTE
NAT-SIZE Salt Lake City (Utslc) 2,221 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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