Skilled nursing facilities · South Dakota

Avantara Groton

Groton, SD · ~43 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
5.7
Avg TCR
6.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Avantara Groton runs at 87% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Skilled nursing facilities workplace, earning a grade C.

Avantara Groton: 5.7 TCR = 87% of Skilled nursing facilities BLS 6.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Avantara Groton safety composite

Avantara Groton scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 59% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 46%), 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).

D

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 5.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

Avantara Groton: 0.0 → 3.9 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 16.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.68× in 2024

Avantara Groton's TCR rose 3.9 from 0.0 in 2019 to 3.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 16.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.68× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 623110 · Groton, SD AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 5.7 · 87% of ind

  • DART 3.9 DART
  • RANK #27/107
  • PHOTO Ambler Extended Care
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~43 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ambler Extended Care (0.0 TCR gap)

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Avantara Groton in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Avantara Groton averages 5.7 TCR (87% of the Skilled nursing facilities BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Avantara Groton TCR series: 2019=0 · 2020=5.8 · 2021=4 · 2022=16.7 · 2023=3.6 · 2024=3.9 · BLS 6.5

Where Avantara Groton falls in its industry

15,252 Skilled nursing facilities establishments

Safer than 59% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Dakota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #27 safest of 107 Skilled nursing facilities employers in South Dakota.

Avantara Groton (43 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 106 employees and a TCR of 6.6 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Avantara Groton
Avantara Groton (43 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 106 employees and a TCR of 6.6

Avantara Groton has fewer employees than the Skilled nursing facilities median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.6. 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
2024 3.9 3.9 1 0 0
2023 3.6 3.6 1 0 0
2022 16.7 12.5 4 0 0
2021 4.0 4.0 1 0 0
2020 5.8 2.9 2 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

623110 · SD · Groton

15,252 Skilled nursing facilities employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,778 rated employers in South Dakota with headcount on file · 3 employers in Groton, 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 Ambler Extended Care 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Good Samaritan Society - Algona 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lanier Rehabilitation Center 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Valley Oaks Care Center 5.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hoogendoorn Construction, Inc. 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE House of Glass, Inc. 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Component Manufacturing Company - Plant 3 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ringneck Energy, LLC 43 FTE
CITY-NEAR James Valley Ethanol dba Poet Biorefining Groton 45 FTE
CITY-NEAR Poet Biorefining - Groton 42 FTE
NAT-TCR Thurman Transportation, Inc. 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Partners In Progress, Inc 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Valley Oaks Care Center 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Samuel Packaging Systems Group-Heath 5.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Carl's Boned Chicken, Inc. 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Casa de Esperanza de los Ninos 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Holly Construction Company 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ace Hardware McHenry 43 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.