General medical and surgical hospitals · Arkansas
St. Bernards Hospital
Jonesboro, AR · ~1,975 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.
- D
- Poor Safety Record
- 12.8
- Avg TCR
- 7.5
- Industry avg
- 3
- Fatalities
The verdict
St. Bernards Hospital runs at 171% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical General medical and surgical hospitals workplace, earning a grade D.
- D
- Poor Safety Record
- 12.8
- avg TCR · per 100 workers
- 7.5
- industry benchmark (BLS)
- 3
- worker fatalities on record
Grade compares St. Bernards Hospital's OSHA Total Case Rate of 12.8 to the General medical and surgical hospitals BLS benchmark of 7.5 (171% of benchmark) across 4 years of Form 300A filings (2016–2024). <a href="/methodology">See methodology</a> for reporting-limitation caveats.
Injury rate over time
St. Bernards Hospital's yearly Total Case Rate, against the 7.5 industry benchmark.
Where St. Bernards Hospital falls in its industry
7,181 General medical and surgical h establishmentsSafer than 3% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.0.
Narrower to Arkansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #87 safest of 87 General medical and surgical h employers in Arkansas.
Trend analysis for St. Bernards Hospital
Between 2016 and 2021, St. Bernards Hospital's Total Case Rate worsened from 4.4 to 13.5 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers, a 208% increase across 5 years of OSHA reporting.
The safest year on record was 2018, at a TCR of 4.3, while 2020 saw the highest rate, at 29.2, a spread of 24.9 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 4 reporting years, St. Bernards Hospital recorded 355 total injuries and illnesses and 3 fatalities. Readers comparing establishments should weigh the 4-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 355 injuries, 772 illnesses, and 3 fatalities shown on this page for St. Bernards Hospital are sourced from its own 4 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 622110 - General medical and surgical hospitals.
DART Rate, Transparent Calculation (2021)
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.
228 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 4,699,848 hours worked = 9.70 DART
Methodology: 29 CFR 1904, OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping
Cross-Validating Context, Establishment vs Industry vs State
| Benchmark | TCR | Source |
|---|---|---|
| St. Bernards Hospital (this establishment) | 12.83 | OSHA ITA Form 300A, 4-year avg |
| Hospitals, general medical and surgical industry avg | 7.50 | BLS IIF, NAICS 622110 |
| Arkansas state avg (all industries) | 3.83 | 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 St. Bernards Hospital 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.
- 2021: 317 reportable incidents · 113 injuries, 204 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2020: 651 reportable incidents · 81 injuries, 567 illnesses, 3 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2018: 85 reportable incidents · 85 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2016: 77 reportable incidents · 76 injuries, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 13.5 | 9.7 | 113 | 204 | 0 |
| 2020 | 29.2 | 26.3 | 81 | 567 | 3 |
| 2018 | 4.3 | 1.7 | 85 | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | 4.4 | 1.4 | 76 | 1 | 0 |
What this grade means for you
Use this grade as a relative read on St. Bernards Hospital's reported OSHA injury record versus its General medical and surgical hospitals peers, not a verdict on whether any single site is safe today.
- At 171% of the General medical and surgical hospitals benchmark, St. Bernards Hospital reports more injuries than typical peers, ask specifically how the employer is reducing them. Know your rights
- Judge this record against the wider General medical and surgical hospitals 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.