General medical and surgical hospitals · South Dakota

AH Avera Sacred Heart

Name: AH Avera Sacred Heart Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

Yankton, SD · ~54 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

A
Excellent Safety Record: 2.2
Avg TCR: 7.5
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

AH Avera Sacred Heart 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 Sacred Heart: 2.2 TCR = 30% of General medical and surgical hospitals BLS 7.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

AH Avera Sacred Heart safety composite

AH Avera Sacred Heart 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).

80/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): B 2.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% 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%).

Rising injury rate

AH Avera Sacred Heart: 0.0 → 5.0 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 5.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2019

AH Avera Sacred Heart's TCR rose 5.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 5.0 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade A · TCR 2.2 · 30% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #11/73
PHOTO Sabine Medical Center
BOOK 3y book
INJ 3 inj
SIZE ~54 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sabine Medical Center (0.0 TCR gap)

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2.2
Sabine Medical

2.2
Lakeview Regio

2.2
Indiana Univer

2.2
1004-Corporate

2.2

What this shows AH Avera Sacred Heart averages 2.2 TCR (30% of the General medical and surgical hospitals BLS benchmark).

AH Avera Sacred Heart TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=1.7 · 2019=5 · BLS 7.5

Where AH Avera Sacred Heart 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 #11 safest of 73 General medical and surgical h employers in South Dakota.

AH Avera Sacred Heart (54 employees, TCR 2.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2

AH Avera Sacred Heart 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
2019	5.0	0.0	2
2017	1.7	1.7	1
2016	0.0	0.0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

622110 · SD · Yankton

6,862 General medical and surgical hospitals employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,778 rated employers in South Dakota with headcount on file · 43 employers in Yankton, 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	Sabine Medical Center	MANY, LA	2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Lakeview Regional Medical Center	COVINGTON, LA	2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Indiana University Health Tipton Hospital	INDIANAPOLIS, IN	2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	1004-Corporate Operations	CHARLOTTE, NC	2.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Component Manufacturing Company - Plant 2	SIOUX FALLS,	54 FTE
STATE-SIZE	POET Research Center	SCOTLAND	54 FTE
STATE-SIZE	TrueNorth Steel-Rapid Ciy	RAPID CITY	54 FTE
STATE-SIZE	H-S Precision, Inc.	RAPID CITY	54 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Avera Sacred Heart Hospital	Yankton	541 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Avera Sacred Heart Hospital Campus	Yankton	522 FTE
CITY-NEAR	FPC Yankton	Yankton	458 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Kolberg-Pioneer, Inc.	Yankton	449 FTE
NAT-TCR	indiCo, LLC	Oberlin, OH	2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	Jackson, Alabama Sawmill	Jackson, AL	2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	Bellamy Creek Correctional Facility	Ionia, MI	2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	The Coca-Cola Company - Howard, PA Plant	Howard, PA	2.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE	QualiTau, Inc,	Mountain View, CA	54 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Fort Pickett	Blackstone, VA	54 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Easter Seals Hawaii - Green Street	Honolulu, HI	54 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Avery Dennison West Coast DC	Rancho Cucamonga, CA	54 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.