The William W Backus Hospital

Safety Insights for The William W Backus Hospital

The William W Backus Hospital operates an establishment with approximately 1,604 full-time equivalent workers in NORWICH, CT, classified under the General medical and surgical hospitals industry (NAICS 622110). Across 7 years of mandatory OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA) reporting, this employer has accumulated 436 recordable injuries, 188 occupational illnesses, and 0 workplace fatalities. The average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 7.1 injuries per 100 full-time workers per year provides the anchor metric for the C letter grade (Average Safety Record).

Benchmarked against the Bureau of Labor Statistics industry average of 7.5 for General medical and surgical hospitals, The William W Backus Hospital's workforce experiences 95% of the typical injury burden. This ratio matters because TCR already normalizes for hours worked — a 200,000-hour exposure base equals roughly 100 full-time workers — so establishments with very different headcounts can be compared directly. A TCR below the benchmark signals that controls, training, or automation may be outperforming peers.

Multi-year trend analysis is the single most reliable signal here: a one-year spike could reflect a single severe event, whereas sustained elevation across 7 reporting cycles points to systemic hazard exposure. Readers evaluating The William W Backus Hospital as an employer, contractor, investment, or regulatory target should examine the yearly DART rate (days away, restricted, or transferred), the fatality count of 0, and any year-over-year deterioration shown in the table below. All figures come directly from employer-submitted OSHA Form 300A summaries — there is no modeling, estimation, or third-party adjustment layered on top of the government data.