St. Joseph Hospital - St. Charles
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ST. CHARLES, MO | General medial and surgical hospital
~1,196 avg employees | 9 years of OSHA data
St. Joseph Hospital - St. Charles has an average TCR of 7.4, which is 98% of the industry average (7.5) for General medial and surgical hospital. This is better than average.
Safety Insights for St. Joseph Hospital - St. Charles
St. Joseph Hospital - St. Charles operates an establishment with approximately 1,196 full-time equivalent workers in ST. CHARLES, MO, classified under the General medial and surgical hospital industry (NAICS 622110). Across 9 years of mandatory OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA) reporting, this employer has accumulated 493 recordable injuries, 69 occupational illnesses, and 0 workplace fatalities. The average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 7.4 injuries per 100 full-time workers per year provides the anchor metric for the C letter grade (Average Safety Record).
Benchmarked against the Bureau of Labor Statistics industry average of 7.5 for General medial and surgical hospital, St. Joseph Hospital - St. Charles's workforce experiences 98% of the typical injury burden. This ratio matters because TCR already normalizes for hours worked — a 200,000-hour exposure base equals roughly 100 full-time workers — so establishments with very different headcounts can be compared directly. A TCR below the benchmark signals that controls, training, or automation may be outperforming peers.
Multi-year trend analysis is the single most reliable signal here: a one-year spike could reflect a single severe event, whereas sustained elevation across 9 reporting cycles points to systemic hazard exposure. Readers evaluating St. Joseph Hospital - St. Charles as an employer, contractor, investment, or regulatory target should examine the yearly DART rate (days away, restricted, or transferred), the fatality count of 0, and any year-over-year deterioration shown in the table below. All figures come directly from employer-submitted OSHA Form 300A summaries — there is no modeling, estimation, or third-party adjustment layered on top of the government data.
Verify This Employer with OSHA
All injury, illness, and fatality figures on this page are sourced from St. Joseph Hospital - St. Charles's own 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 medial and surgical hospital.
DART Rate — Transparent Calculation (2024)
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.
5 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 1,370,475 hours worked = 0.73 DART
Methodology: 29 CFR 1904 — OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping
Cross-Validating Context — Establishment vs Industry vs State
| Benchmark | TCR | Source |
|---|---|---|
| St. Joseph Hospital - St. Charles (this establishment) | 7.38 | OSHA ITA Form 300A, 9-year avg |
| Hospitals, general medical and surgical industry avg | 7.50 | BLS IIF, NAICS 622110 |
| Missouri state avg (all industries) | 7.13 | 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. Joseph Hospital - St. Charles 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.
- 2024: 25 reportable incidents · 24 injuries, 1 illnesses, 0 fatalities — OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2023: 45 reportable incidents · 40 injuries, 5 illnesses, 0 fatalities — OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2022: 46 reportable incidents · 42 injuries, 4 illnesses, 0 fatalities — OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2021: 51 reportable incidents · 42 injuries, 9 illnesses, 0 fatalities — OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2020: 97 reportable incidents · 56 injuries, 41 illnesses, 0 fatalities — OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2019: 57 reportable incidents · 56 injuries, 1 illnesses, 0 fatalities — OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2018: 88 reportable incidents · 80 injuries, 8 illnesses, 0 fatalities — OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2017: 77 reportable incidents · 77 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities — OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2016: 76 reportable incidents · 76 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 3.6 | 0.7 | 24 | 1 | 0 |
| 2023 | 5.8 | 2.0 | 40 | 5 | 0 |
| 2022 | 6.3 | 3.7 | 42 | 4 | 0 |
| 2021 | 7.2 | 4.9 | 42 | 9 | 0 |
| 2020 | 10.9 | 7.7 | 56 | 41 | 0 |
| 2019 | 5.8 | 2.9 | 56 | 1 | 0 |
| 2018 | 10.2 | 4.7 | 80 | 8 | 0 |
| 2017 | 8.3 | 4.2 | 77 | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | 8.2 | 4.1 | 76 | 0 | 0 |
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