Professional development training · North Carolina

Watauga Medical Center, Inc.

Boone, NC · ~1,077 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.3
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Watauga Medical Center, Inc. runs at 454% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Professional development training workplace, earning a grade F.

Watauga Medical Center, Inc.: 6.3 TCR = 454% of Professional development training BLS 1.4 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Watauga Medical Center, Inc. safety composite

Watauga Medical Center, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 63% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 25%), 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).

D

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 63% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.8

2016→2022

Watauga Medical Center, Inc. injury rate improved

Watauga Medical Center, Inc.'s TCR fell 0.8 from 0.8 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2021 at 24.0 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.8 · 2017=7.0 · 2018=6.2 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=24.0 · 2022=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 611430 · Boone, NC ABOVE-IND · LARGE

Grade F · TCR 6.3 · 454% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #9/10
  • PHOTO MAHEC Dental Health …
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 122 inj
  • SIZE ~1,077 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: MAHEC Dental Health Center (0.2 TCR gap)

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Watauga Medical Center, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Watauga Medical Center, Inc. averages 6.3 TCR (454% of the Professional development training BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Watauga Medical Center, Inc. TCR series: 2016=0.8 · 2017=7 · 2018=6.2 · 2020=0 · 2021=24 · 2022=0 · BLS 1.4

Where Watauga Medical Center, Inc. falls in its industry

28 Professional development train establishments

Safer than 25% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 10 Professional development train employers in North Carolina.

Watauga Medical Center, Inc. (1,077 employees, TCR 6.3) among 15 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 3.6 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 16 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 05001,0001,500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Watauga Medical Center, Inc.
Watauga Medical Center, Inc. (1,077 employees, TCR 6.3) among 15 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 3.6

Watauga Medical Center, Inc. has more employees than the Professional development training median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.6. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 24.0 0.0 0 1 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 6.2 1.5 17 38 0
2017 7.0 0.2 51 8 0
2016 0.8 0.1 54 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611430 · NC · Boone

28 Professional development training employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 38 employers in Boone, 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 MAHEC Dental Health Center 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR HDS - Huntsville 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Family Medicine & Sports Medicine 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR MAHEC OB/GYN Specialist 7.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Case Farms Goldsboro Processing 1,080 FTE
STATE-SIZE City of Wilson 1,080 FTE
STATE-SIZE FSC II, LLC dba Fred Smith Company- Central Division 1,084 FTE
STATE-SIZE Novant Health Matthews Medical Center 1,070 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2496 307 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2496 302 FTE
CITY-NEAR NC BOONE ADM 246 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1522 LOWE S OF BOONE NC 183 FTE
NAT-TCR Manor Care Health Services - Dunedin 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 238480-Ssp-Aspen Hill Carrier Anx 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 174036-Indianapolis in Vmf 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 567510-Sheboygan Po 6.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Triton College 1,077 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cheshire Medical Center 1,077 FTE
NAT-SIZE VGM Group, Inc. 1,077 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - RIC5 1,077 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, 2018, 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.