General medical and surgical hospitals · Connecticut

Smilow Cancer Center

Waterford, CT · ~65 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
3.1
Avg TCR
7.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Smilow Cancer Center runs at 42% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical General medical and surgical hospitals workplace, earning a grade A.

Smilow Cancer Center: 3.1 TCR = 42% of General medical and surgical hospitals BLS 7.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Smilow Cancer Center safety composite

Smilow Cancer Center scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 79% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 45%), 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

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 3.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% 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

Smilow Cancer Center: 0.0 → 5.8 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 6.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.62× in 2022

Smilow Cancer Center's TCR rose 5.8 from 0.0 in 2019 to 5.8 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2021 at 6.6 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.62× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 622110 · Waterford, CT AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 3.1 · 42% of ind

  • DART 1.9 DART
  • RANK #19/86
  • PHOTO Memorial Health Care…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~65 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Memorial Health Care Systems (0.0 TCR gap)

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Smilow Cancer Center in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Smilow Cancer Center averages 3.1 TCR (42% 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

Smilow Cancer Center TCR series: 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=6.6 · 2022=5.8 · BLS 7.5

Where Smilow Cancer Center falls in its industry

6,862 General medical and surgical h establishments

Safer than 79% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Connecticut alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #19 safest of 86 General medical and surgical h employers in Connecticut.

Smilow Cancer Center (65 employees, TCR 3.1) 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 Smilow Cancer Center
Smilow Cancer Center (65 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Smilow Cancer Center has fewer employees than the General medical and surgical hospitals 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
2022 5.8 1.9 3 0 0
2021 6.6 4.4 3 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

622110 · CT · Waterford

6,862 General medical and surgical hospitals employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,008 rated employers in Connecticut with headcount on file · 81 employers in Waterford, CT · 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 Memorial Health Care Systems 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR New Orleans East Hospital 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Aspirus Divine Savior 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR El Paso Children's Hospital 3.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Connecticut 65 FTE
STATE-SIZE Acranom Masonry Enterprises 65 FTE
STATE-SIZE Automated Building Systems, Inc. CT Office 65 FTE
STATE-SIZE RRSC Bridgeport 65 FTE
CITY-NEAR MILLSTONE NUC 958 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2331 362 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2331 323 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bayview Health Care 229 FTE
NAT-TCR KLS Berner Foods IL 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 1574 D&W -Holland, MI PREVO'S #38-3345860 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 020317-Anchorage Amf 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR SSH Real Estate 3.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Schweitzer-Mauduit International, Inc. 65 FTE
NAT-SIZE Piggly Wiggly #281 65 FTE
NAT-SIZE Massapequa 65 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cedar Village Assisted Living and Memory Care 65 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. 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.