General medical and surgical hospitals · South Dakota

AH Avera Mckennan

Sioux Falls, SD · ~189 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
2.7
Avg TCR
7.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

AH Avera Mckennan runs at 36% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical General medical and surgical hospitals workplace, earning a grade A.

AH Avera Mckennan: 2.7 TCR = 36% of General medical and surgical hospitals BLS 7.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

AH Avera Mckennan safety composite

AH Avera Mckennan scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 91% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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).

B

78/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% of industry peers

DART rate
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 91% 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%).

TCR Δ

−3.2

2016→2017

AH Avera Mckennan injury rate improved

AH Avera Mckennan's TCR fell 3.2 from 4.3 in 2016 to 1.1 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 4.3 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=4.3 · 2017=1.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 622110 · Sioux Falls, SD AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 2.7 · 36% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #17/73
  • PHOTO Holy Rosary Hospital
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~189 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Holy Rosary Hospital (0.0 TCR gap)

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AH Avera Mckennan in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows AH Avera Mckennan averages 2.7 TCR (36% 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

AH Avera Mckennan TCR series: 2016=4.3 · 2017=1.1 · BLS 7.5

Where AH Avera Mckennan falls in its industry

6,862 General medical and surgical h establishments

Safer than 83% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Dakota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #17 safest of 73 General medical and surgical h employers in South Dakota.

AH Avera Mckennan (189 employees, TCR 2.7) 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 AH Avera Mckennan
AH Avera Mckennan (189 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2

AH Avera Mckennan has fewer employees than the General medical and surgical hospitals median and a lower 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
2017 1.1 0.0 2 0 0
2016 4.3 0.5 7 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

622110 · SD · Sioux Falls

6,862 General medical and surgical hospitals employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,778 rated employers in South Dakota with headcount on file · 542 employers in Sioux Falls, SD · 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 Holy Rosary Hospital 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mercy Willard Hospital 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR McPherson Hospital, Inc 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Community Health Center of Branch County 2.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Human Service Agency 189 FTE
STATE-SIZE United Hardware Distributing Co - Distribution Center 190 FTE
STATE-SIZE Agronomy Sciences LLC dba Hefty Seed Company 188 FTE
STATE-SIZE Winner Regional Healthcare Center 190 FTE
CITY-NEAR SD,Sioux Falls-Medical Center Campus-General Medical And Surgical Hospitals 6,424 FTE
CITY-NEAR SD,SIOUX FALLS - Medical Center Campus - General Medical and Surgical Hospitals 4,818 FTE
CITY-NEAR Smithfield Foods 3,459 FTE
CITY-NEAR Avera McKennan Hospital 3,312 FTE
NAT-TCR EFS Westfield 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Bombardier Transportation - Dallas - DFW 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR UG2 - 309 - Oxford 225 Franklin Street 2 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Heritage Health - Gillespie 2.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Schneider Electric - Middletown 189 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1855-CTBRI2 189 FTE
NAT-SIZE Chapel Hill (Ncchp) 189 FTE
NAT-SIZE ABCO - Corporate 189 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: 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.