General Medical and Surgical Hospitals · Pennsylvania

UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh, PA · ~3,764 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
4.5
Avg TCR
7.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh runs at 61% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical General Medical and Surgical Hospitals workplace, earning a grade B.

UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh: 4.5 TCR = 61% of General Medical and Surgical Hospitals BLS 7.5 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh safety composite

UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 77% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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).

C

64/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% 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

UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh: 3.2 → 4.1 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 13.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.12× in 2024

UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh's TCR rose 0.8 from 3.2 in 2018 to 4.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 13.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.12× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 622110 · Pittsburgh, PA AT/BELOW-IND · LARGE

Grade B · TCR 4.5 · 61% of ind

  • DART 0.6 DART
  • RANK #100/262
  • PHOTO Grant Medical Center
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 609 inj
  • SIZE ~3,764 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Grant Medical Center (0.0 TCR gap)

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UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh averages 4.5 TCR (61% 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

UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh TCR series: 2018=3.2 · 2019=2.6 · 2020=3.2 · 2021=2.2 · 2022=2.9 · 2023=13.6 · 2024=4.1 · BLS 7.5

Where UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh falls in its industry

6,862 General Medical and Surgical H establishments

Safer than 60% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #100 safest of 262 General Medical and Surgical H employers in Pennsylvania.

UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh (3,764 employees, TCR 4.5) 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 02,0004,0006,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh
UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh (3,764 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2

UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh has more employees than the General Medical and Surgical Hospitals median and a lower 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 4.1 0.6 103 0 0
2023 13.6 1.9 95 0 0
2022 2.9 1.0 65 0 0
2021 2.2 0.7 91 0 0
2020 3.2 0.7 74 0 0
2019 2.6 1.0 89 0 0
2018 3.2 1.0 92 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

622110 · PA · Pittsburgh

6,862 General Medical and Surgical Hospitals employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 1,170 employers in Pittsburgh, PA · 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 Grant Medical Center 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ida County Community Hospital Inc 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Albany Memorial Hospital-SPHP-NY 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Beloit Health System 4.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE 1701 JFK Blvd - PAP22 3,708 FTE
STATE-SIZE SEI Investments Company 3,667 FTE
STATE-SIZE Veolia Water Technologies & Solutions USA, Inc. 3,610 FTE
STATE-SIZE PA015 3,582 FTE
CITY-NEAR United States Steel COrporation 15,229 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Pittsburgh- Oakland 14,135 FTE
CITY-NEAR UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside (PUH) 13,900 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Pittsburgh-Oakland 13,208 FTE
NAT-TCR Novartis Pharmaceutical Sales Force 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Bernicks Pepsi of Dresser 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Midwest Automation and Custom Fabrication, Inc. 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR VERM West Plant 4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Continental Tire Mt. Vernon 3,766 FTE
NAT-SIZE San Manuel Casino 3,759 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amarillo Plant 3,771 FTE
NAT-SIZE Precision Pipeline, LLC 3,757 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, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.