General medical and surgical hospitals · South Dakota

AH Avera Queen of Peace

Name: AH Avera Queen of Peace Workplace Safety Data
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Mitchell, SD · ~44 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

A
Excellent Safety Record: 2.3
Avg TCR: 7.5
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

AH Avera Queen of Peace runs at 30% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical General medical and surgical hospitals workplace, earning a grade A.

AH Avera Queen of Peace: 2.3 TCR = 30% of General medical and surgical hospitals BLS 7.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

AH Avera Queen of Peace safety composite

AH Avera Queen of Peace scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 87% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 39%), 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).

61/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): B 2.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% of industry peers
DART rate: D 2.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% 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

AH Avera Queen of Peace: 2.4 → 4.4 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 4.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.97× in 2019

AH Avera Queen of Peace's TCR rose 2.0 from 2.4 in 2016 to 4.4 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0.97× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 622110 · Mitchell, SD AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 2.3 · 30% of ind

DART 2.2 DART
RANK #13/73
PHOTO Cape Fear Valley Hea…
BOOK 3y book
INJ 2 inj
SIZE ~44 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cape Fear Valley Health System/Hoke County (0.0 TCR gap)

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2.3
Cape Fear Vall

2.3
Amita Health S

2.3
UPMC Horizon G

2.3
Christus Santa

2.3

What this shows AH Avera Queen of Peace averages 2.3 TCR (30% of the General medical and surgical hospitals BLS benchmark).

AH Avera Queen of Peace TCR series: 2016=2.4 · 2017=0 · 2019=4.4 · BLS 7.5

Where AH Avera Queen of Peace falls in its industry

6,862 General medical and surgical h establishments

Safer than 87% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

Grade A

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Dakota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 73 General medical and surgical h employers in South Dakota.

AH Avera Queen of Peace (44 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2

AH Avera Queen of Peace 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
2019	4.4	2.2	1	1
2017	0.0	0.0	0	0
2016	2.4	0.0	1	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

622110 · SD · Mitchell

6,862 General medical and surgical hospitals employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,778 rated employers in South Dakota with headcount on file · 72 employers in Mitchell, SD · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Cape Fear Valley Health System/Hoke County	RAEFORD, NC	2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Amita Health Saint Mary and Elizabeth Medical Center	CHICAGO, IL	2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	UPMC Horizon Greenville	GREENVILLE, PA	2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Christus Santa Rosa	SAN ANTONIO, TX	2.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Clark	RAYMOND	44 FTE
STATE-SIZE	WEB Water Development Association, Inc.	ABERDEEN	44 FTE
STATE-SIZE	ECI PIERRE	PIERRE	44 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Dakotaland Feeds	HURON	44 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Avera Queen of Peace Hospital	Mitchell	376 FTE
CITY-NEAR	TKI Mitchell	Mitchell	353 FTE
CITY-NEAR	TKI Mitchell West	Mitchell	343 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Muth Electric, Inc.	Mitchell	318 FTE
NAT-TCR	Hotel Covington	Covington, KY	2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Frattallone's Ace Hardware-Uptown	Minneapolis, MN	2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	NDX Green	Heber Springs, AR	2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Braddock Metallurgical-GA	Atlanta, GA	2.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE	John J Hoober Inc	Gordonville, PA	44 FTE
NAT-SIZE	The Grand Hotel Salem	Salem, OR	44 FTE
NAT-SIZE	City of Durand	Durand, MI	44 FTE
NAT-SIZE	DuBose Strapping Indiana	Crawfordsville, IN	44 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: 2019, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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