Hospitals, general medical and surgical · Kansas

Trego County Lemke Memorial Hospital

Wakeeney, KS · ~179 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
10.8
Avg TCR
7.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Trego County Lemke Memorial Hospital runs at 144% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Hospitals, general medical and surgical workplace, earning a grade D.

Trego County Lemke Memorial Hospital: 10.8 TCR = 144% of Hospitals, general medical and surgical BLS 7.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Trego County Lemke Memorial Hospital safety composite

Trego County Lemke Memorial Hospital scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 6%), 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

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% 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

Trego County Lemke Memorial Hospital: 6.1 → 15.9 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 21.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.16× in 2024

Trego County Lemke Memorial Hospital's TCR rose 9.8 from 6.1 in 2019 to 15.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 21.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.16× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 622110 · Wakeeney, KS ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 10.8 · 144% of ind

  • DART 1.8 DART
  • RANK #129/136
  • PHOTO Saint Luke's North H…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 38 inj
  • SIZE ~179 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Saint Luke's North Hospital--Smithville (0.0 TCR gap)

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Trego County Lemke Memorial Hospital in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Trego County Lemke Memorial Hospital averages 10.8 TCR (144% 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

Trego County Lemke Memorial Hospital TCR series: 2019=6.1 · 2020=4.1 · 2021=4.9 · 2022=21 · 2023=12.9 · 2024=15.9 · BLS 7.5

Where Trego County Lemke Memorial Hospital falls in its industry

6,862 Hospitals, general medical and establishments

Safer than 6% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #129 safest of 136 Hospitals, general medical and employers in Kansas.

Trego County Lemke Memorial Hospital (179 employees, TCR 10.8) 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 Trego County Lemke Memorial Hospital
Trego County Lemke Memorial Hospital (179 employees, TCR 10.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Trego County Lemke Memorial 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
2024 15.9 1.8 5 13 0
2023 12.9 11.5 3 15 0
2022 21.0 17.1 10 17 0
2021 4.9 3.5 4 3 0
2020 4.1 0.6 7 0 0
2019 6.1 2.7 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

622110 · KS · Wakeeney

6,862 Hospitals, general medical and surgical employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 6 employers in Wakeeney, KS · 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 Saint Luke's North Hospital--Smithville 10.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Community Health Network South 10.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR St. Luke's Wood River Medical Center 10.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Prospect EOGH Inc. 10.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hutchinson Plant (KPR) 179 FTE
STATE-SIZE TOPEKA KS - 3291 179 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1187 179 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4707 179 FTE
CITY-NEAR Western Cooperative Electric Assoc. 56 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wakeeney Heartland Foods 32 FTE
CITY-NEAR Malay's Market 29 FTE
CITY-NEAR 31773 22 FTE
NAT-TCR Wayne NJ FXFE-WNJ 10.8 TCR
NAT-TCR WAS006 10.8 TCR
NAT-TCR AZF001 10.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Warehouse 2 10.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sagamore Pendry Baltimore 179 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mosaic Omaha 179 FTE
NAT-SIZE preferred care at absecon 179 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ira Green, Inc. 179 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.