General medical and surgical hospitals · Pennsylvania

St. Luke's Hospital

Bethlehem, PA · ~5,338 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
7.1
Avg TCR
7.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

St. Luke's Hospital runs at 95% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical General medical and surgical hospitals workplace, earning a grade C.

St. Luke's Hospital: 7.1 TCR = 95% of General medical and surgical hospitals BLS 7.5 · 7y 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 15%), 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).

F

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% 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. Luke's Hospital: 5.5 → 7.0 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 10.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.59× in 2022

St. Luke's Hospital's TCR rose 1.5 from 5.5 in 2016 to 7.0 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2020 at 10.2 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.59× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 622110 · Bethlehem, PA AT/BELOW-IND · LARGE

Grade C · TCR 7.1 · 95% of ind

  • DART 4.2 DART
  • RANK #195/262
  • PHOTO Memorial Hermann Pea…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 1,521 inj
  • SIZE ~5,338 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Memorial Hermann Pearland Hospital (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 7.1 TCR (95% 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: 2016=5.5 · 2017=6.5 · 2018=6 · 2019=4.9 · 2020=10.2 · 2021=9.5 · 2022=7 · BLS 7.5

Where St. Luke's Hospital falls in its industry

6,862 General medical and surgical h establishments

Safer than 24% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #195 safest of 262 General medical and surgical h employers in Pennsylvania.

St. Luke's Hospital (5,338 employees, TCR 7.1) 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 (5,338 employees, TCR 7.1) 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 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
2022 7.0 4.2 201 148 0
2021 9.5 6.8 194 262 0
2020 10.2 7.6 173 299 0
2019 4.9 1.9 230 4 0
2018 6.0 1.7 257 19 0
2017 6.5 1.4 245 33 0
2016 5.5 1.6 221 16 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

622110 · PA · Bethlehem

6,862 General medical and surgical hospitals employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 358 employers in Bethlehem, PA · 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 Pearland Hospital 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Spartanburg Medical Center Mary Black Campus 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Arkansas Heart Hospital 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Newark Wellness Center 7.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Supply Chain : Erie, PA 5,403 FTE
STATE-SIZE Malvern, PA 5,179 FTE
STATE-SIZE Abington Memorial Hospital 5,610 FTE
STATE-SIZE Einstein Medical Center Philadelphia 5,632 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Luke's Physician's Group 3,041 FTE
CITY-NEAR LVH-Muhlenberg 2,139 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4087 2,105 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2545SCHOE 1,605 FTE
NAT-TCR Longmont United Hospital 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Godfrey 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Russellville Home Base 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Cross Technologies Group, Inc. 7.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Raleigh Managed Services 5,342 FTE
NAT-SIZE Chesterfield, MO 5,343 FTE
NAT-SIZE L3 Technologies - Greenville 5,329 FTE
NAT-SIZE Boston Scientific Corporation 5,324 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.