General medical and surgical hospitals · North Carolina

UNC Health Care

Chapel Hill, NC · ~11,237 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
12.6
Avg TCR
7.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

UNC Health Care runs at 168% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical General medical and surgical hospitals workplace, earning a grade D.

UNC Health Care: 12.6 TCR = 168% of General medical and surgical hospitals BLS 7.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

UNC Health Care safety composite

UNC Health Care scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 3%), 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

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 12.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% 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

UNC Health Care: 4.1 → 7.5 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 41.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.23× in 2022

UNC Health Care's TCR rose 3.4 from 4.1 in 2016 to 7.5 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2019 at 41.4 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.23× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 622110 · Chapel Hill, NC ABOVE-IND · LARGE

Grade D · TCR 12.6 · 168% of ind

  • DART 2.9 DART
  • RANK #172/175
  • PHOTO Sutter Senior Care (…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 1,285 inj
  • SIZE ~11,237 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sutter Senior Care (110-8101) (0.0 TCR gap)

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UNC Health Care in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows UNC Health Care averages 12.6 TCR (168% 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

UNC Health Care TCR series: 2016=4.1 · 2017=4.9 · 2019=41.4 · 2021=5.2 · 2022=7.5 · BLS 7.5

Where UNC Health Care falls in its industry

6,862 General medical and surgical h establishments

Safer than 3% 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 #172 safest of 175 General medical and surgical h employers in North Carolina.

UNC Health Care (11,237 employees, TCR 12.6) 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 05,00010,00015,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate UNC Health Care
UNC Health Care (11,237 employees, TCR 12.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2

UNC Health Care 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 7.5 2.9 327 245 0
2021 5.2 2.1 324 224 0
2019 41.4 15.7 399 275 0
2017 4.9 2.2 90 373 0
2016 4.1 1.6 145 234 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

622110 · NC · Chapel Hill

6,862 General medical and surgical hospitals employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 104 employers in Chapel Hill, 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 Sutter Senior Care (110-8101) 12.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Glencoe Regional Health 12.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR UW Medical Center Montlake 12.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sierra Nevada Memorial Miners-Hospital 12.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Duke University Hospital 11,048 FTE
STATE-SIZE NC State University 11,491 FTE
STATE-SIZE WFBMC - Winston Campus 13,298 FTE
STATE-SIZE Headway Workforce Solutions 13,936 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 21,973 FTE
CITY-NEAR Spec Personnel, LLC 644 FTE
CITY-NEAR Brookdale chapel hill 509 FTE
CITY-NEAR Carolina Meadows 487 FTE
NAT-TCR Clayton OH 12.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 104955-Wdc-Brookland Sta 12.6 TCR
NAT-TCR New England Ice Cream Corp - Wilmington, MA 12.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Crestwood Behavioral Health 12.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE NYU Langone Hospital - Long Island 11,183 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2636-California.San Jose 11,308 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ingalls Shipbuilding 11,345 FTE
NAT-SIZE Adventhealth Orlando 11,412 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, 2019, 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.