General medical and surgical hospitals · Washington

UW Medical Center Northwest Hospital

Seattle, WA · ~2,271 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
28.0
Avg TCR
7.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

UW Medical Center Northwest Hospital runs at 374% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical General medical and surgical hospitals workplace, earning a grade F.

UW Medical Center Northwest Hospital: 28.0 TCR = 374% of General medical and surgical hospitals BLS 7.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

UW Medical Center Northwest Hospital safety composite

UW Medical Center Northwest Hospital scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 0%), 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

14/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 28.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 0% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% 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

UW Medical Center Northwest Hospital: 34.0 → 122.5 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 122.5 TCR · DART/TCR 3.96× in 2022

UW Medical Center Northwest Hospital's TCR rose 88.5 from 34.0 in 2020 to 122.5 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 3.96× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 28.0 · 374% of ind

  • DART 111.0 DART
  • RANK #161/161
  • PHOTO Morrison Community H…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 281 inj
  • SIZE ~2,271 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Morrison Community Hospital (0.6 TCR gap)

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UW Medical Center Northwest Hospital in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows UW Medical Center Northwest Hospital averages 28.0 TCR (374% 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 Medical Center Northwest Hospital TCR series: 2020=34 · 2021=22.1 · 2022=122.5 · BLS 7.5

Where UW Medical Center Northwest Hospital falls in its industry

6,862 General medical and surgical h establishments

Safer than 0% 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 #161 safest of 161 General medical and surgical h employers in Washington.

UW Medical Center Northwest Hospital (2,271 employees, TCR 28.0) 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 02,0004,0006,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate UW Medical Center Northwest Hospital
UW Medical Center Northwest Hospital (2,271 employees, TCR 28.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2

UW Medical Center Northwest Hospital 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 122.5 111.0 103 578 0
2021 22.1 10.6 98 21 0
2020 34.0 26.8 80 91 0

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 Morrison Community Hospital 27.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Avita Ontario Hospital / Avita Health System 27.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Southern California Hospital at Hollywood 27.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR SWAIN COUNTY HOSPITAL 26.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - PAE2 2,265 FTE
STATE-SIZE Puyallup Tribe of Indians 2,299 FTE
STATE-SIZE Puyallup Tribe of Indians Emerald Queen Hotel & Casinos 2,236 FTE
STATE-SIZE Western 2,314 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 Hnl-Ground Ops 28.0 TCR
NAT-TCR The Ritz Carlton Laguna Niguel 28.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Banner Seventeen, LLC 28.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Arlington Pointe Nursing & Rehabilitation 28.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE NP Red Rock LLC, dba Red Rock Casino Resort Spa 2,271 FTE
NAT-SIZE College of Southern Nevada 2,270 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dow Chemical - Michgian Operations 2,270 FTE
NAT-SIZE Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Inc. 2,272 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, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.