General medical and surgical hospitals · Pennsylvania

Sacred Heart Hospital

Allentown, PA · ~651 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
10.2
Avg TCR
7.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sacred Heart Hospital runs at 136% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical General medical and surgical hospitals workplace, earning a grade D.

Sacred Heart Hospital: 10.2 TCR = 136% of General medical and surgical hospitals BLS 7.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sacred Heart Hospital safety composite

Sacred Heart Hospital scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 3%), 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).

F

17/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% 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

Sacred Heart Hospital: 3.3 → 14.2 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 19.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.95× in 2022

Sacred Heart Hospital's TCR rose 10.9 from 3.3 in 2016 to 14.2 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2020 at 19.4 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.95× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 622110 · Allentown, PA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 10.2 · 136% of ind

  • DART 9.7 DART
  • RANK #247/262
  • PHOTO Lakeland Medical Cen…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 194 inj
  • SIZE ~651 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Lakeland Medical Center St. Joseph (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sacred Heart Hospital in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sacred Heart Hospital averages 10.2 TCR (136% 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

Sacred Heart Hospital TCR series: 2016=3.3 · 2018=2.2 · 2019=7.7 · 2020=19.4 · 2021=14.4 · 2022=14.2 · BLS 7.5

Where Sacred Heart Hospital falls in its industry

6,862 General medical and surgical h establishments

Safer than 7% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #247 safest of 262 General medical and surgical h employers in Pennsylvania.

Sacred Heart Hospital (651 employees, TCR 10.2) 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 Sacred Heart Hospital
Sacred Heart Hospital (651 employees, TCR 10.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Sacred Heart Hospital has more 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
2022 14.2 9.7 40 35 0
2021 14.4 10.9 41 40 0
2020 19.4 16.1 44 68 0
2019 7.7 2.6 44 0 0
2018 2.2 0.9 7 0 0
2016 3.3 1.7 18 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

622110 · PA · Allentown

6,862 General medical and surgical hospitals employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 447 employers in Allentown, PA · 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 Lakeland Medical Center St. Joseph 10.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 64030373-373001 COMMUNITY HOSPITAL OF SAN BERNARDINO 10.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Anderson County Hospital 10.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR OSF Sacred Heart Medical Center SHMC 10.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE East Earl 651 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pixelle Specialty Solutions 651 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cabinetworks Group 651 FTE
STATE-SIZE Thermo Fisher Scientific-FCS Allentown, PA 651 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lehigh Valley Hospital 9,463 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1200SCC 6,531 FTE
CITY-NEAR Air Products and Chemicals Inc.- Main Campus 2,118 FTE
CITY-NEAR LOCATION 48042 1,728 FTE
NAT-TCR 4054-ABS-0017-0016-00332 10.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 4054-ABS-0020-0022-00135 10.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 5472-NAI-0033-0033-03561 10.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 083348-Hfd-Bishops Corner Br 10.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Glade Spring Dry Van Plant 651 FTE
NAT-SIZE Heart of Mary Medical Center 651 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jomax Construction Co., Inc. 651 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sutter Health System Office (470-1500) 651 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.