Children's hospitals, general · Washington

Seattle Children's

Seattle, WA · ~9,161 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
3.6
Avg TCR
7.5
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Seattle Children's runs at 48% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Children's hospitals, general workplace, earning a grade A.

Seattle Children's: 3.6 TCR = 48% of Children's hospitals, general BLS 7.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Seattle Children's safety composite

Seattle Children's scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 73% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 2%), 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

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 2% 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

Seattle Children's: 3.2 → 3.7 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 3.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.65× in 2024

Seattle Children's's TCR rose 0.4 from 3.2 in 2020 to 3.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 3.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.65× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 622110 · Seattle, WA AT/BELOW-IND · LARGE

Grade A · TCR 3.6 · 48% of ind

  • DART 2.3 DART
  • RANK #24/161
  • PHOTO Baptist Memorial Hos…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 848 inj
  • SIZE ~9,161 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Baptist Memorial Hospital For Women (0.0 TCR gap)

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Seattle Children's in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Seattle Children's averages 3.6 TCR (48% of the Children's hospitals, general BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Seattle Children's TCR series: 2020=3.2 · 2021=3.5 · 2023=3.9 · 2024=3.7 · BLS 7.5

Where Seattle Children's falls in its industry

6,862 Children's hospitals, general establishments

Safer than 73% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Washington alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #24 safest of 161 Children's hospitals, general employers in Washington.

Seattle Children's (9,161 employees, TCR 3.6) 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 02,0004,0006,0008,00010,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Seattle Children's
Seattle Children's (9,161 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Seattle Children's has more employees than the Children's hospitals, general median and a lower 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 3.7 2.3 261 31 0
2023 3.9 2.1 222 76 0
2021 3.5 1.6 220 11 0
2020 3.2 1.8 145 72 1

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

622110 · WA · Seattle

6,862 Children's hospitals, general employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,147 rated employers in Washington with headcount on file · 1,279 employers in Seattle, WA · 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 Baptist Memorial Hospital For Women 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sibley Memorial Hospital 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR UC Davis Health 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Winnie Palmer Hospital for Women and Babies 3.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE UW Medical Center Montlake 7,958 FTE
STATE-SIZE Washington State University 10,539 FTE
STATE-SIZE UW Harborview Medical Center 7,376 FTE
STATE-SIZE WA019 7,084 FTE
CITY-NEAR UW Seattle 32,378 FTE
CITY-NEAR The United States of America 25,000 FTE
CITY-NEAR Starz Entertainment 25,000 FTE
CITY-NEAR UW Medical Center - Montlake and NW 11,307 FTE
NAT-TCR Maceys Lehi 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Gold Bond Inc 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Pratt Retail Specialties, LLC Allentown,PA 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Union Hospital of Cecil County 3.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE New Iberia 9,165 FTE
NAT-SIZE McComb 9,165 FTE
NAT-SIZE Robertsdale 9,165 FTE
NAT-SIZE West Point 9,165 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, 2021, 2020. 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.