Hospitals, general medical and surgical · Massachusetts

St. Luke's Hospital

New Bedford, MA · ~2,204 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
5.6
Avg TCR
7.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

St. Luke's Hospital runs at 75% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Hospitals, general medical and surgical workplace, earning a grade B.

St. Luke's Hospital: 5.6 TCR = 75% of Hospitals, general medical and surgical BLS 7.5 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

St. Luke's Hospital safety composite

St. Luke's Hospital scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 28%), 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

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% 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%).

St. Luke's Hospital held a steady TCR band

St. Luke's Hospital's TCR held near 0.1 from 4.0 in 2017 to 4.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 14.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.51× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=4.0 · 2018=4.4 · 2019=7.4 · 2020=14.7 · 2021=1.1 · 2022=5.5 · 2023=3.8 · 2024=4.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 622110 · New Bedford, MA AT/BELOW-IND · LARGE

Grade B · TCR 5.6 · 75% of ind

  • DART 2.9 DART
  • RANK #50/87
  • PHOTO Southcoast VNA
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 801 inj
  • SIZE ~2,204 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Southcoast VNA (0.0 TCR gap)

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St. Luke's Hospital in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows St. Luke's Hospital averages 5.6 TCR (75% of the Hospitals, general medical and surgical BLS benchmark).

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

St. Luke's Hospital TCR series: 2017=4 · 2018=4.4 · 2019=7.4 · 2020=14.7 · 2021=1.1 · 2022=5.5 · 2023=3.8 · 2024=4 · BLS 7.5

Where St. Luke's Hospital falls in its industry

6,862 Hospitals, general medical and establishments

Safer than 43% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #50 safest of 87 Hospitals, general medical and employers in Massachusetts.

St. Luke's Hospital (2,204 employees, TCR 5.6) 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. Luke's Hospital
St. Luke's Hospital (2,204 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2

St. Luke's Hospital has more employees than the Hospitals, general medical and surgical 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 4.0 2.9 92 1 0
2023 3.8 2.3 82 1 0
2022 5.5 3.4 102 18 0
2021 1.1 0.9 84 78 0
2020 14.7 12.0 151 70 0
2019 7.4 4.5 114 0 0
2018 4.4 2.5 96 2 0
2017 4.0 2.8 80 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

622110 · MA · New Bedford

6,862 Hospitals, general medical and surgical employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 109 employers in New Bedford, 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 Southcoast VNA 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Baptist Health Paducah 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Southside Regional Medical Center 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Emory Hillandale Hospital - EHC 5.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Corporate 2,213 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eliassen Group, LLC 2,220 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Foundation Of The Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary 2,270 FTE
STATE-SIZE Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Inc. 2,272 FTE
CITY-NEAR High Point & Affiliated Organizations 1,264 FTE
CITY-NEAR JAMCO 690 FTE
CITY-NEAR LifeStream 644 FTE
CITY-NEAR Market Basket #65 511 FTE
NAT-TCR FPS 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Mubea Coil Springs 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR ABILENE 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Wahle'S Wood Works & Mouldings, Inc. 5.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Tyler Main Hospital 2,205 FTE
NAT-SIZE SAO : Reading 2,203 FTE
NAT-SIZE North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : MSP1 2,202 FTE
NAT-SIZE AdventHealth Altamonte Springs 2,201 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, 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.