Children's hospitals, psychiatric or substance abuse · Virginia

Western State Hospital

Staunton, VA · ~762 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
15.4
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Western State Hospital runs at 406% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Children's hospitals, psychiatric or substance abuse workplace, earning a grade F.

Western State Hospital: 15.4 TCR = 406% of Children's hospitals, psychiatric or substance abuse BLS 3.8 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Western State Hospital safety composite

Western State Hospital scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 8%), 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

19/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 15.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers

DART rate
F 11.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

Western State Hospital: 13.3 → 16.9 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 17.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.77× in 2024

Western State Hospital's TCR rose 3.6 from 13.3 in 2018 to 16.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 17.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.77× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 622210 · Staunton, VA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 15.4 · 406% of ind

  • DART 11.9 DART
  • RANK #22/26
  • PHOTO Cedar Crest Hospital
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 495 inj
  • SIZE ~762 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cedar Crest Hospital (0.0 TCR gap)

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Western State Hospital in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Western State Hospital averages 15.4 TCR (406% of the Children's hospitals, psychiatric or substance abuse BLS benchmark).

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

Western State Hospital TCR series: 2018=13.3 · 2019=14.4 · 2023=17.1 · 2024=16.9 · BLS 3.8

Where Western State Hospital falls in its industry

872 Children's hospitals, psychiat establishments

Safer than 9% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #22 safest of 26 Children's hospitals, psychiat employers in Virginia.

Western State Hospital (762 employees, TCR 15.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 200 employees and a TCR of 6.7 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 05001,0001,5002,0002,500 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Western State Hospital
Western State Hospital (762 employees, TCR 15.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 200 employees and a TCR of 6.7

Western State Hospital has more employees than the Children's hospitals, psychiatric or sub median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.7. 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 16.9 11.9 140 0 0
2023 17.1 5.8 139 0 0
2019 14.4 10.8 110 0 0
2018 13.3 9.2 106 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

622210 · VA · Staunton

872 Children's hospitals, psychiatric or substance abuse employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 73 employers in Staunton, VA · 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 Cedar Crest Hospital 15.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Highland Springs Hospital 15.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Crestwood Recovery and Rehabillitation Center and Crestwood Hope Center 15.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR KVC Hospital - Kansas City 15.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Northern Virginia Community College - CS 762 FTE
STATE-SIZE VHS Corporate 760 FTE
STATE-SIZE AN Altavista 759 FTE
STATE-SIZE HQ 765 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1344 329 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1344 324 FTE
CITY-NEAR Staunton VA 204 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cadence Inc. 201 FTE
NAT-TCR Carmel Village 15.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 190 Overland Park 15.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Tuttle Dairy 15.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Oakley - Belvidere 15.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Utslc - Salt Lake City 762 FTE
NAT-SIZE Plateau Excavation, Inc 762 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - LGB4 762 FTE
NAT-SIZE Alpine Meadows Ski Resort 762 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, 2019, 2018. 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.