Hospitals, general medical and surgical · Georgia

WellStar Kennestone Hospital

Marietta, GA · ~5,581 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
5.3
Avg TCR
7.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

WellStar Kennestone Hospital runs at 71% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Hospitals, general medical and surgical workplace, earning a grade B.

WellStar Kennestone Hospital: 5.3 TCR = 71% of Hospitals, general medical and surgical BLS 7.5 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

WellStar Kennestone Hospital safety composite

WellStar Kennestone Hospital scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 47%), 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

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% 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

WellStar Kennestone Hospital: 5.0 → 7.0 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 7.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.33× in 2024

WellStar Kennestone Hospital's TCR rose 2.0 from 5.0 in 2016 to 7.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 7.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.33× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 622110 · Marietta, GA AT/BELOW-IND · LARGE

Grade B · TCR 5.3 · 71% of ind

  • DART 1.8 DART
  • RANK #105/170
  • PHOTO Utah Valley Hospital
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 2,012 inj
  • SIZE ~5,581 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Utah Valley Hospital (0.0 TCR gap)

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WellStar Kennestone Hospital in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows WellStar Kennestone Hospital averages 5.3 TCR (71% of the Hospitals, general medical and surgical BLS benchmark).

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

WellStar Kennestone Hospital TCR series: 2016=5 · 2017=4.7 · 2018=4.6 · 2019=5.5 · 2020=7.8 · 2021=4.3 · 2022=4.7 · 2023=4.7 · 2024=7 · BLS 7.5

Where WellStar Kennestone Hospital falls in its industry

6,862 Hospitals, general medical and establishments

Safer than 47% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Georgia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #105 safest of 170 Hospitals, general medical and employers in Georgia.

WellStar Kennestone Hospital (5,581 employees, TCR 5.3) 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 WellStar Kennestone Hospital
WellStar Kennestone Hospital (5,581 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2

WellStar Kennestone Hospital has more employees than the Hospitals, general medical and surgical 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 7.0 1.8 318 0 0
2023 4.7 1.3 215 0 0
2022 4.7 2.0 218 1 0
2021 4.3 1.5 181 6 0
2020 7.8 4.7 266 97 0
2019 5.5 2.2 252 0 0
2018 4.6 1.9 194 0 0
2017 4.7 2.1 179 0 0
2016 5.0 1.8 189 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

622110 · GA · Marietta

6,862 Hospitals, general medical and surgical employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 14,941 rated employers in Georgia with headcount on file · 350 employers in Marietta, GA · 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 Utah Valley Hospital 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Baptist- Calhoun 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR ILARL252 ASCENSION HEALTH SAINTS MARY AND ELIZABETH MEDICAL CENTER CHICAGO 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sky Lakes Medical Center, Inc. 5.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE AU Medical Center, Inc. 5,630 FTE
STATE-SIZE Northside Hospital 5,515 FTE
STATE-SIZE Emory University Hosp-Midtown - EHC 5,720 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hyundai MOBIS, LLC - Georgia Plant 5,436 FTE
CITY-NEAR MARIETTA PACKERS 9,165 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lockheed Martin Corporation US GA Marietta S Cobb Dr (1169) 5,310 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lockheed Martin Corporation Marietta Campus (1169) 5,205 FTE
CITY-NEAR WellStar Medical Group 3,289 FTE
NAT-TCR Little Silver 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Hughes Anderson 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Santa Fe Springs 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 1451 North River Road, Plains, PA 18702 5.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Saint Joseph Mercy Hospital-AnnArbor 5,575 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mayo Clinic Arizona (Hospital) 5,588 FTE
NAT-SIZE King County Metro Transit 5,565 FTE
NAT-SIZE St. Jude Children's Research Hospital 5,599 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, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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