Hospitals, general medical and surgical · California

Stanford Health Care

Palo Alto, CA · ~16,371 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
6.5
Avg TCR
7.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Stanford Health Care runs at 87% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Hospitals, general medical and surgical workplace, earning a grade C.

Stanford Health Care: 6.5 TCR = 87% of Hospitals, general medical and surgical BLS 7.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Stanford Health Care safety composite

Stanford Health Care scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 19%), 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

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% 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

Stanford Health Care: 5.7 → 7.3 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 7.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.55× in 2024

Stanford Health Care's TCR rose 1.6 from 5.7 in 2023 to 7.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.55× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 622110 · Palo Alto, CA AT/BELOW-IND · LARGE

Grade C · TCR 6.5 · 87% of ind

  • DART 3.6 DART
  • RANK #319/662
  • PHOTO UPMC Passavant
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1,793 inj
  • SIZE ~16,371 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: UPMC Passavant (0.0 TCR gap)

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Stanford Health Care in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Stanford Health Care averages 6.5 TCR (87% 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

Stanford Health Care TCR series: 2023=5.7 · 2024=7.3 · BLS 7.5

Where Stanford Health Care falls in its industry

6,862 Hospitals, general medical and establishments

Safer than 31% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #319 safest of 662 Hospitals, general medical and employers in California.

Stanford Health Care (16,371 employees, TCR 6.5) 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 05,00010,00015,00020,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Stanford Health Care
Stanford Health Care (16,371 employees, TCR 6.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Stanford Health Care 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 7.3 3.6 1,108 29 0
2023 5.7 3.3 685 38 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

622110 · CA · Palo Alto

6,862 Hospitals, general medical and surgical employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 116 employers in Palo Alto, CA · 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 UPMC Passavant 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Norton Community Hospital 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Robert Packer Hospital 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR OSF Saint Francis Medical Center 6.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE UC Irvine 16,029 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pacific Farm Management Inc 17,529 FTE
STATE-SIZE UC San Francisco 18,070 FTE
STATE-SIZE Genentech SSF 13,259 FTE
CITY-NEAR NA-US-CA-Palo Alto-Deer Creek-Office 1,878 FTE
CITY-NEAR Varian, Palo Alto 1,396 FTE
CITY-NEAR Palo Alto Medical Foundation (378-10110) 1,227 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rivian Automotive - 607 Hansen Way Palo Alto 1,202 FTE
NAT-TCR Carter Component Plant 532 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Trachte Southeast 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR OSF Saint Francis Medical Center 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Haxton Masonry, Inc 6.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE NYU Grossman School of Medicine 16,280 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lockheed Martin Corporation US TX Fort Worth Lockheed Blvd (1093) 16,547 FTE
NAT-SIZE 3M Center 15,771 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center 17,011 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.