General medical and surgical hospitals · Michigan

St. Joseph Mercy Chelsea Hospital

Chelsea, MI · ~1,135 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
5.5
Avg TCR
7.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

St. Joseph Mercy Chelsea Hospital runs at 73% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical General medical and surgical hospitals workplace, earning a grade B.

St. Joseph Mercy Chelsea Hospital: 5.5 TCR = 73% of General medical and surgical hospitals BLS 7.5 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

St. Joseph Mercy Chelsea Hospital safety composite

St. Joseph Mercy Chelsea Hospital scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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).

D

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.91 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

St. Joseph Mercy Chelsea Hospital: 3.8 → 4.5 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 7.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.35× in 2024

St. Joseph Mercy Chelsea Hospital's TCR rose 0.7 from 3.8 in 2018 to 4.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 7.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.35× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 622110 · Chelsea, MI AT/BELOW-IND · LARGE

Grade B · TCR 5.5 · 73% of ind

  • DART 1.9 DART
  • RANK #135/262
  • PHOTO Memorial Hermann Woo…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 243 inj
  • SIZE ~1,135 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Memorial Hermann Woodlands Hospital (0.0 TCR gap)

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St. Joseph Mercy Chelsea Hospital in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows St. Joseph Mercy Chelsea Hospital averages 5.5 TCR (73% 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

St. Joseph Mercy Chelsea Hospital TCR series: 2018=3.8 · 2019=3.5 · 2020=6.4 · 2021=6.7 · 2022=7.8 · 2023=5.9 · 2024=4.5 · BLS 7.5

Where St. Joseph Mercy Chelsea Hospital falls in its industry

6,862 General medical and surgical h establishments

Safer than 45% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #135 safest of 262 General medical and surgical h employers in Michigan.

St. Joseph Mercy Chelsea Hospital (1,135 employees, TCR 5.5) 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 St. Joseph Mercy Chelsea Hospital
St. Joseph Mercy Chelsea Hospital (1,135 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2

St. Joseph Mercy Chelsea Hospital has more employees than the General medical and surgical hospitals median and a higher 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 4.5 1.9 33 0 0
2023 5.9 2.8 41 0 0
2022 7.8 5.1 46 12 0
2021 6.7 3.8 30 18 0
2020 6.4 4.3 32 11 0
2019 3.5 1.8 29 1 0
2018 3.8 2.6 32 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

622110 · MI · Chelsea

6,862 General medical and surgical hospitals employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 27 employers in Chelsea, MI · 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 Hermann Woodlands Hospital 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Indiana University Health Paoli Hospital 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Northwestern Memorial Hospital 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mercy Hospital-MHN-IA 5.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Zeeland Plant 1,135 FTE
STATE-SIZE 989 - Meijer Office 1,134 FTE
STATE-SIZE DBN FRAME PLNT 1,133 FTE
STATE-SIZE LIVONIA HUB (MILIV) 1,131 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chelsea Proving Grounds 636 FTE
CITY-NEAR United Methodist Retirement Communities 411 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sheridan Books, Inc. 329 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chelsea Milling Company 326 FTE
NAT-TCR Willow Fork Country Club 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 08022-08-08-LAKEWOOD 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR TXDA-Dallas,TX 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Ice Cream Specialties 5.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Virgin Galactic LLC 1,135 FTE
NAT-SIZE Residential HVAC and Supply : MFG-Trenton, NJ-USA 1,135 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - CDW5 1,135 FTE
NAT-SIZE QVC, Inc. (Lancaster) 1,135 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.