Ambulatory surgical centers and clinics, freestanding · Kentucky
SCA Lexington Surgery Center
Lexington, KY · ~88 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.
- F
- Failing Safety Record
- 19.5
- Avg TCR
- 3.8
- Industry avg
- 0
- Fatalities
The verdict
SCA Lexington Surgery Center runs at 514% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Ambulatory surgical centers and clinics, freestanding workplace, earning a grade F.
- F
- Failing Safety Record
- 19.5
- avg TCR · per 100 workers
- 3.8
- industry benchmark (BLS)
- 27
- recordable injuries tracked
Grade compares SCA Lexington Surgery Center's OSHA Total Case Rate of 19.5 to the Ambulatory surgical centers and clinics, freestanding BLS benchmark of 3.8 (514% of benchmark) across 7 years of Form 300A filings (2016–2024). <a href="/methodology">See methodology</a> for reporting-limitation caveats.
Injury rate over time
SCA Lexington Surgery Center's yearly Total Case Rate, against the 3.8 industry benchmark.
Where SCA Lexington Surgery Center falls in its industry
616 Ambulatory surgical centers an establishmentsSafer than 3% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.0.
Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 13 Ambulatory surgical centers an employers in Kentucky.
Trend analysis for SCA Lexington Surgery Center
Between 2016 and 2023, SCA Lexington Surgery Center's Total Case Rate worsened from 17.7 to 27.9 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers, a 58% increase across 7 years of OSHA reporting.
The safest year on record was 2020, at a TCR of 4.6, while 2021 saw the highest rate, at 40.0, a spread of 35.4 points between the best and worst reporting years. That's a wide swing relative to the establishment's overall rate, worth checking the year-by-year table below for whether a single severe year is driving the average, rather than a sustained trend.
Summed across those 7 reporting years, SCA Lexington Surgery Center recorded 27 total injuries and illnesses, with no fatalities reported in any of those years. Readers comparing establishments should weigh the 7-year trend above alongside establishment size, since a larger workforce naturally accumulates more raw incidents even at a lower per-100-worker rate.
Verify This Employer with OSHA
The 27 injuries, 42 illnesses shown on this page for SCA Lexington Surgery Center are sourced from its own 7 years of mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source, name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.
Verify on OSHA Establishment SearchSource: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 621493 - Ambulatory surgical centers and clinics, freestanding.
DART Rate, Transparent Calculation (2023)
What is the DART rate formula?
DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.
15 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 114,527 hours worked = 26.19 DART
Methodology: 29 CFR 1904, OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping
Cross-Validating Context, Establishment vs Industry vs State
| Benchmark | TCR | Source |
|---|---|---|
| SCA Lexington Surgery Center (this establishment) | 19.54 | OSHA ITA Form 300A, 7-year avg |
| Ambulatory surgical centers and clinics, freestanding industry avg | 3.80 | BLS IIF, NAICS 621493 |
| Kentucky state avg (all industries) | 4.39 | OSHA ITA, state-level rollup |
Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program
Reportable Incident Timeline
Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by SCA Lexington Surgery Center to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.
- 2023: 16 reportable incidents · 1 injuries, 15 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2022: 10 reportable incidents · 3 injuries, 7 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2021: 21 reportable incidents · 1 injuries, 20 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2020: 2 reportable incidents · 2 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2019: 7 reportable incidents · 7 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2018: 5 reportable incidents · 5 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2016: 8 reportable incidents · 8 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) - inspection case-number records
Year-by-Year Safety Data
| Year | TCR | DART | Injuries | Illnesses | Fatalities |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 27.9 | 26.2 | 1 | 15 | 0 |
| 2022 | 17.7 | 12.4 | 3 | 7 | 0 |
| 2021 | 40.0 | 38.0 | 1 | 20 | 0 |
| 2020 | 4.6 | 0.0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 15.3 | 0.0 | 7 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | 13.6 | 0.0 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | 17.7 | 0.0 | 8 | 0 | 0 |
What this grade means for you
Use this grade as a relative read on SCA Lexington Surgery Center's reported OSHA injury record versus its Ambulatory surgical centers and clinics, freestanding peers, not a verdict on whether any single site is safe today.
- At 514% of the Ambulatory surgical centers and clinics, freestanding benchmark, SCA Lexington Surgery Center reports more injuries than typical peers, ask specifically how the employer is reducing them. Know your rights
- Judge this record against the wider Ambulatory surgical centers and clinics, freestanding sector, where injury rates vary widely, before comparing it in isolation. See the industry
- Grades reflect 2016–2024 filings; check the latest establishment record straight from OSHA, or look up a different employer. Look up another
Safety grades reflect employers' self-reported OSHA Form 300A filings from 2016 to 2024 and can lag current conditions. A grade is not a guarantee that any specific workplace is safe or unsafe today. See our methodology and disclaimer.
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Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.