What Is DART Rate?
Your Most Serious Injuries, Quantified
An electrician twists his knee Tuesday. Misses 3 days, then light duty for a week. That's a DART case — and if you didn't document it within 7 days, you're in violation. Each day away costs $483. Each missed deadline costs $15,625.
DART Rate (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) measures your most severe injuries — the ones that take workers off the job. It is a subset of TRIR and the metric that best predicts your future EMR trajectory.
How DART Cases Are Tracked — From Injury to Return
DART is not just a rate — it's a lifecycle. Every case has a beginning (injury), a middle (days away or restricted), and an end (return to full duty). POD tracks all three.
Worker Is Injured on the Jobsite
An electrician twists his knee Tuesday afternoon. The foreman reports it in that evening's daily voice report. POD records the date, the worker, the body part, and the initial severity assessment — all from a 30-second voice note.
Classify: Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred
The electrician misses Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. Returns Monday on light duty — no ladder work, no kneeling. That's 3 days away + restricted duty. Each category gets tracked separately on the OSHA 300 log. POD updates automatically from daily crew reports.
Track DART Days and Calculate the Rate
DART Rate = (DART Cases x 200,000) / Total Hours Worked. POD counts DART cases and hours daily. Your rate updates in real time — not at the end of the quarter when it's too late to change the outcome.
The DART Case Lifecycle — With and Without POD
With POD, every day away and restricted day is documented automatically. Without POD, injuries go unreported for weeks — and by then, you have missed OSHA deadlines and lost the paper trail.
How POD Manages DART Cases End-to-End
From the moment an injury is reported to the day the worker returns to full duty, POD tracks every milestone automatically.
DART Day Calendar
Every day away and every restricted-duty day is tracked automatically through daily crew reports. POD knows who is out, how long they have been out, and when they returned to full duty — without anyone maintaining a separate spreadsheet.
Return-to-Work Monitoring
POD tracks the full lifecycle of every DART case: injury date, first day away, restricted duty start, return to full duty. You see the human timeline, not just a number in a cell.
OSHA Deadline Alerts
OSHA requires recording injuries within 7 days. Fatalities must be reported within 8 hours. Amputations and hospitalizations within 24 hours. POD tracks every deadline and alerts you before you miss one.
Absence Cost Calculator
Each DART day carries direct costs (replacement labor, overtime) and indirect costs (productivity loss, administrative time). POD quantifies the total cost per DART case so you can justify safety investments.
DART Rate Intelligence — Days Away and Restricted Duty Tracked Daily
These KPIs auto-populate from daily field reports. Every absence, every restricted-duty assignment, every return-to-work date — captured automatically.
Safety Performance
Absenteeism Rate
DART Case Management Features
Crew Absence Dashboard
See who is out, why, and for how long — updated daily from field reports. No one falls through the cracks.
Time-to-Return Forecasting
POD analyzes historical DART cases by injury type to forecast expected return dates. Plan crew coverage before gaps appear.
OSHA 300 Log Integration
DART cases automatically populate the correct columns on your OSHA 300 log. Days-away and restricted-duty counts update daily.
DART vs TRIR Comparison
See your DART rate alongside your TRIR. A high TRIR with a low DART means most incidents are minor. A high DART means serious injuries — a completely different safety conversation.
Frequently Asked Questions
Track Every DART Day. Automatically.
POD captures every injury, tracks every day away and restricted-duty assignment, and calculates your DART rate daily. No spreadsheets. No missed deadlines. No surprises.