Hospitals, general medical and surgical · North Carolina

Swain Community Hospital

Bryson City, NC · ~102 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
5.2
Avg TCR
7.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Swain Community Hospital runs at 69% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Hospitals, general medical and surgical workplace, earning a grade B.

Swain Community Hospital: 5.2 TCR = 69% of Hospitals, general medical and surgical BLS 7.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Swain Community Hospital safety composite

Swain Community Hospital scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 12%), 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

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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

Swain Community Hospital: 3.5 → 6.5 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 7.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.93× in 2021

Swain Community Hospital's TCR rose 3.0 from 3.5 in 2017 to 6.5 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2019 at 7.7 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.93× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade B · TCR 5.2 · 69% of ind

  • DART 4.8 DART
  • RANK #91/175
  • PHOTO Sentara Martha Jeffe…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~102 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sentara Martha Jefferson Hospital (0.0 TCR gap)

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Swain Community Hospital in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Swain Community Hospital averages 5.2 TCR (69% 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

Swain Community Hospital TCR series: 2017=3.5 · 2018=5 · 2019=7.7 · 2020=3.3 · 2021=6.5 · BLS 7.5

Where Swain Community Hospital falls in its industry

6,862 Hospitals, general medical and establishments

Safer than 49% 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 #91 safest of 175 Hospitals, general medical and employers in North Carolina.

Swain Community Hospital (102 employees, TCR 5.2) 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 Swain Community Hospital
Swain Community Hospital (102 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Swain Community Hospital has fewer 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
2021 6.5 4.8 4 0 0
2020 3.3 1.7 2 0 0
2019 7.7 3.1 3 2 0
2018 5.0 0.0 2 1 0
2017 3.5 3.5 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

622110 · NC · Bryson City

6,862 Hospitals, general medical and surgical employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 16 employers in Bryson City, 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 Sentara Martha Jefferson Hospital 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital-MHS-PA 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR St. Luke's Des Peres Hospital 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Aurora Medical Center Two Rivers 5.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Water Resources 102 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tar Heel Winston 102 FTE
STATE-SIZE A American Electric 102 FTE
STATE-SIZE Brady Services Inc 102 FTE
CITY-NEAR ConMet Bryson City 139 FTE
CITY-NEAR Store 035 129 FTE
CITY-NEAR DLP Swain County Hospital LLC 118 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nantahala Outdoor Center - Nantahala Outpost 105 FTE
NAT-TCR Nexion 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR D&W, Inc. 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Spectra Metal Sales Inc Atlanta (6100) CC:710 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Avantara Ipswich 5.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE DEMA Engineering Co. 102 FTE
NAT-SIZE Eastland Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center 102 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mar Cor Purification - Manufacturing MN 102 FTE
NAT-SIZE Paslin - Hoover 102 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: 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.