General medical and surgical hospitals · Washington

UW Harborview Medical Center

Seattle, WA · ~7,376 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
16.0
Avg TCR
7.5
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

UW Harborview Medical Center runs at 214% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical General medical and surgical hospitals workplace, earning a grade F.

UW Harborview Medical Center: 16.0 TCR = 214% of General medical and surgical hospitals BLS 7.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

UW Harborview Medical Center safety composite

UW Harborview Medical Center scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 20% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 2%), 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

8/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 16.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 2% 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%).

UW Harborview Medical Center held a steady TCR band

UW Harborview Medical Center's TCR held near 0.3 from 9.1 in 2020 to 8.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 38.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.22× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=9.1 · 2021=11.0 · 2022=38.5 · 2023=12.8 · 2024=8.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 622110 · Seattle, WA ABOVE-IND · LARGE

Grade F · TCR 16.0 · 214% of ind

  • DART 3.5 DART
  • RANK #157/161
  • PHOTO Ridgecrest Regional …
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 1,977 inj
  • SIZE ~7,376 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ridgecrest Regional Hospital Visiting Nurse Services, Hospice and Personal Care Services (0.0 TCR gap)

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UW Harborview Medical Center in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows UW Harborview Medical Center averages 16.0 TCR (214% 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

UW Harborview Medical Center TCR series: 2020=9.1 · 2021=11 · 2022=38.5 · 2023=12.8 · 2024=8.8 · BLS 7.5

Where UW Harborview Medical Center falls in its industry

6,862 General medical and surgical h establishments

Safer than 2% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Washington alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #157 safest of 161 General medical and surgical h employers in Washington.

UW Harborview Medical Center (7,376 employees, TCR 16.0) 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 02,0004,0006,0008,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate UW Harborview Medical Center
UW Harborview Medical Center (7,376 employees, TCR 16.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2

UW Harborview Medical Center 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
2024 8.8 3.5 464 35 0
2023 12.8 7.2 431 285 0
2022 38.5 33.7 376 1,702 0
2021 11.0 6.9 359 268 0
2020 9.1 5.0 347 178 1

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

622110 · WA · Seattle

6,862 General medical and surgical hospitals employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,147 rated employers in Washington with headcount on file · 1,279 employers in Seattle, WA · 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 Ridgecrest Regional Hospital Visiting Nurse Services, Hospice and Personal Care Services 16.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2032-08681701 16.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR NMC - Elk River 15.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Surgery Center Plus 16.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE WA019 7,084 FTE
STATE-SIZE UW Medical Center Montlake 7,958 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2252-00000345 6,769 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2252-00000316 6,330 FTE
CITY-NEAR UW Seattle 32,378 FTE
CITY-NEAR The United States of America 25,000 FTE
CITY-NEAR Starz Entertainment 25,000 FTE
CITY-NEAR UW Medical Center - Montlake and NW 11,307 FTE
NAT-TCR Skyline Solar 16.0 TCR
NAT-TCR D8 Wood River Yard 16.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Precision Piping, Inc. 16.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Lutheran Life - LUTHER OAKS 16.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Carilion Clinic Co. 01 7,384 FTE
NAT-SIZE USXpress 7,385 FTE
NAT-SIZE Oxford 7,387 FTE
NAT-SIZE Delta Air Lines - ATL Technical Operations 7,341 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.