General medical and surgical hospitals · North Carolina

St Luke's Hospital

Columbus, NC · ~308 workers · 2 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 74% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical General medical and surgical hospitals workplace, earning a grade B.

St Luke's Hospital: 5.6 TCR = 74% of General medical and surgical hospitals BLS 7.5 · 2y 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 29%), 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

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.8

2017→2024

St Luke's Hospital injury rate improved

St Luke's Hospital's TCR fell 1.8 from 6.5 in 2017 to 4.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 6.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.5× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=6.5 · 2024=4.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 622110 · Columbus, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 5.6 · 74% of ind

  • DART 2.8 DART
  • RANK #106/175
  • PHOTO Samaritan Hospital-T…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~308 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Samaritan Hospital-Troy-SPHP-NY (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 (74% 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 Luke's Hospital TCR series: 2017=6.5 · 2024=4.7 · BLS 7.5

Where St Luke's Hospital falls in its industry

6,862 General medical and surgical h establishments

Safer than 44% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #106 safest of 175 General medical and surgical h employers in North Carolina.

St Luke's Hospital (308 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 (308 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 fewer 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 4.7 2.8 3 2 0
2017 6.5 1.3 14 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

622110 · NC · Columbus

6,862 General medical and surgical hospitals employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 17 employers in Columbus, NC · 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 Samaritan Hospital-Troy-SPHP-NY 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR St. Anthony Hospital Midwest 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR University of Maryland Baltimore Washington Medical Center 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Good Samaritan Hospital 5.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Claremont Fiber Plant 308 FTE
STATE-SIZE Raleigh (NC45) 308 FTE
STATE-SIZE BorgWarner Thermal Fletcher Plant 308 FTE
STATE-SIZE WILMINGTON 308 FTE
CITY-NEAR ACTS Retirement-Life Communities - Tryon Estates 233 FTE
CITY-NEAR ACTS Retirement-Life Communities-Tryon Estates 141 FTE
CITY-NEAR Milliken Hatch 77 FTE
CITY-NEAR 00510 - STORE # 510 COLUMBUS 74 FTE
NAT-TCR Mapleview Country Villa 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Sodon's Electric, Inc. 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR The Bridge at Colorado Springs 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Sandstone Management, LTD 5.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Newman Technology of Alabama, Inc. 308 FTE
NAT-SIZE ThedaCare at Home 308 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lusamerica Foods, Inc. 308 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Houstonian Club 308 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, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.