General medical and surgical hospitals · West Virginia

Pocahontas Memorial Hospital

Name: Pocahontas Memorial Hospital Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Buckeye, WV · ~163 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

C
Average Safety Record: 7.8
Avg TCR: 7.5
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Pocahontas Memorial Hospital runs at 103% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical General medical and surgical hospitals workplace, earning a grade C.

Pocahontas Memorial Hospital: 7.8 TCR = 103% of General medical and surgical hospitals BLS 7.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Pocahontas Memorial Hospital safety composite

Pocahontas Memorial Hospital scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 19%), 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).

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 7.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers
DART rate: F 2.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% 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

Pocahontas Memorial Hospital: 7.2 → 8.3 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 8.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.32× in 2018

Pocahontas Memorial Hospital's TCR rose 1.2 from 7.2 in 2016 to 8.3 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.32× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 622110 · Buckeye, WV ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 7.8 · 103% of ind

DART 2.5 DART
RANK #54/60
PHOTO Atlantic General Hos…
BOOK 2y book
INJ 16 inj
SIZE ~163 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Atlantic General Hospital (0.0 TCR gap)

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Atlantic Gener

7.8
Crisp Regional

7.8
Geisinger Comm

7.8
Saint Francis

7.8

What this shows Pocahontas Memorial Hospital averages 7.8 TCR (103% of the General medical and surgical hospitals BLS benchmark).

Pocahontas Memorial Hospital TCR series: 2016=7.2 · 2018=8.3 · BLS 7.5

Where Pocahontas Memorial Hospital falls in its industry

6,862 General medical and surgical h establishments

Safer than 19% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

Grade C

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to West Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #54 safest of 60 General medical and surgical h employers in West Virginia.

Pocahontas Memorial Hospital (163 employees, TCR 7.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Pocahontas Memorial 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
2018	8.3	2.5	10	0	0
2016	7.2	0.0	6	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

622110 · WV · Buckeye

6,862 General medical and surgical hospitals employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 2,269 rated employers in West Virginia with headcount on file · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Atlantic General Hospital	BERLIN, MD	7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Crisp Regional Hospital	CORDELE, GA	7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Geisinger Community Medical Center	SCRANTON, PA	7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Saint Francis Emergency Medical Group	HARTFORD, CT	7.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Ziegenfelder - Wheeling	WHEELING	163 FTE
STATE-SIZE	2807-1671	MORGANTOWN	163 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Peterson Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center	WHEELING	163 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Lane Pipeline Construction, LLC.	CLARKSBURG	164 FTE
NAT-TCR	Chat of Mi.	Romulus, MI	7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	52611 Chandler DC - HSS	Chandler, AZ	7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Rchc Ga-Columbus Companion	Columbus, GA	7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Heartland Health Care Center - Sterling Heights	Sterling Heights, MI	7.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Norristown PA Depot	Norristown, PA	163 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Altru Business Center	Grand Forks, ND	163 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Plant 47	Ringgold, GA	163 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Lexington Health Network of Wheeling	Wheeling, IL	163 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: 2018, 2016. 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.