Children's hospitals, specialty (except psychiatric, substance abuse) · Massachusetts

Shriners Hospitals for Children - Boston

Boston, MA · ~231 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Shriners Hospitals for Children - Boston runs at 106% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Children's hospitals, specialty (except psychiatric, substance abuse) workplace, earning a grade C.

Shriners Hospitals for Children - Boston: 4.0 TCR = 106% of Children's hospitals, specialty (except psychiatric, substance abuse) BLS 3.8 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Shriners Hospitals for Children - Boston safety composite

Shriners Hospitals for Children - Boston scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 66% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 51%), 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).

C

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 66% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

Shriners Hospitals for Children - Boston: 1.9 → 5.5 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 6.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.59× in 2024

Shriners Hospitals for Children - Boston's TCR rose 3.6 from 1.9 in 2017 to 5.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 6.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.59× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 622310 · Boston, MA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 4.0 · 106% of ind

  • DART 2.4 DART
  • RANK #9/29
  • PHOTO Specialty Hospital a…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 26 inj
  • SIZE ~231 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Specialty Hospital at Rittenhouse - PMR (GSPP) (0.0 TCR gap)

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Shriners Hospitals for Children - Boston in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Shriners Hospitals for Children - Boston averages 4.0 TCR (106% of the Children's hospitals, specialty (except psychiatric, substance abuse) BLS benchmark).

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

Shriners Hospitals for Children - Boston TCR series: 2017=1.9 · 2019=6.6 · 2022=2.2 · 2024=5.5 · BLS 3.8

Where Shriners Hospitals for Children - Boston falls in its industry

1,390 Children's hospitals, specialt establishments

Safer than 66% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 29 Children's hospitals, specialt employers in Massachusetts.

Shriners Hospitals for Children - Boston (231 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 160 employees and a TCR of 5.4 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Shriners Hospitals for Children - Boston
Shriners Hospitals for Children - Boston (231 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 160 employees and a TCR of 5.4

Shriners Hospitals for Children - Boston has more employees than the Children's hospitals, specialty (except median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.4. 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 5.5 2.4 7 0 0
2022 2.2 2.2 3 0 0
2019 6.6 1.1 12 0 0
2017 1.9 0.5 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

622310 · MA · Boston

1,390 Children's hospitals, specialty (except psychiatric, substance abuse) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 577 employers in Boston, MA · 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 Specialty Hospital at Rittenhouse - PMR (GSPP) 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Regency Hospital of Cincinnati LLC 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Select Specialty Hospital - Pittsburgh/UPMC, Inc. 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR UF Health Rehab Hospital 4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Diana's Bakery Agawam 231 FTE
STATE-SIZE Roche Bros. Supermarkets - Westwood 231 FTE
STATE-SIZE 0301 - DANVERS MA WHSE 231 FTE
STATE-SIZE Republic Services- Peabody 231 FTE
CITY-NEAR Massachusetts General Hospital 26,855 FTE
CITY-NEAR Brigham and Women's Hospital 19,183 FTE
CITY-NEAR Brigham and Womens Hospital 19,004 FTE
CITY-NEAR Brigham & Women's Hospital 18,260 FTE
NAT-TCR Bountiful, UT 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Sweetheart Orchards, LLC 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Wahoo #740 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR ASCO 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Pottsville Distribution Center 231 FTE
NAT-SIZE BlueScope Buildings N.A. 231 FTE
NAT-SIZE ESD - Environmental Services 231 FTE
NAT-SIZE Whitman Hospital & Medical Center 231 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, 2022, 2019, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.