General medical and surgical hospitals · South Dakota

AH Avera St. Lukes

Aberdeen, SD · ~52 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
2.1
Avg TCR
7.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

AH Avera St. Lukes runs at 28% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical General medical and surgical hospitals workplace, earning a grade A.

AH Avera St. Lukes: 2.1 TCR = 28% of General medical and surgical hospitals BLS 7.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

AH Avera St. Lukes safety composite

AH Avera St. Lukes 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

80/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 88% 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%).

AH Avera St. Lukes held a steady TCR band

AH Avera St. Lukes's TCR held near 0.2 from 2.0 in 2016 to 2.1 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=2.0 · 2017=2.1 · 2019=2.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade A · TCR 2.1 · 28% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #9/73
  • PHOTO Health First Home Care
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~52 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Health First Home Care (0.0 TCR gap)

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AH Avera St. Lukes in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows AH Avera St. Lukes averages 2.1 TCR (28% 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 St. Lukes TCR series: 2016=2 · 2017=2.1 · 2019=2.1 · BLS 7.5

Where AH Avera St. Lukes falls in its industry

6,862 General medical and surgical h establishments

Safer than 88% 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 #9 safest of 73 General medical and surgical h employers in South Dakota.

AH Avera St. Lukes (52 employees, TCR 2.1) 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 St. Lukes
AH Avera St. Lukes (52 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2

AH Avera St. Lukes 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
2019 2.1 0.0 1 0 0
2017 2.1 0.0 1 0 0
2016 2.0 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

622110 · SD · Aberdeen

6,862 General medical and surgical hospitals employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,778 rated employers in South Dakota with headcount on file · 86 employers in Aberdeen, 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 Health First Home Care 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Floyd Healthcare Management Inc 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Warren Community Hospital Inc. 2.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE WL Plastics - Rapid City 52 FTE
STATE-SIZE 27106 Independence Ave 52 FTE
STATE-SIZE SXF-ODFL 52 FTE
STATE-SIZE DAKOTA CENTRAL_1441151 52 FTE
CITY-NEAR New Angus, LLC dba DemKota Ranch Beef 761 FTE
CITY-NEAR Avera St. Luke's Hospital 758 FTE
CITY-NEAR Aberdeen 716 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1520 397 FTE
NAT-TCR Joe's Hardware 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Fort Pickett 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Auto Transm New Product Ctr 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Corporate 99 2.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE AKDHC Phoenix 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE Riverport Inn 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE Noble 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE Reliable Disposal 52 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.