Hospices, inpatient care · South Dakota

Avera Dougherty Hospice House

Sioux Falls, SD · ~74 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
4.8
Avg TCR
6.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Avera Dougherty Hospice House runs at 74% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Hospices, inpatient care workplace, earning a grade B.

Avera Dougherty Hospice House: 4.8 TCR = 74% of Hospices, inpatient care BLS 6.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Avera Dougherty Hospice House safety composite

Avera Dougherty Hospice House scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 67% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

C

61/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 61% 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%).

TCR Δ

−3.1

2020→2024

Avera Dougherty Hospice House injury rate improved

Avera Dougherty Hospice House's TCR fell 3.1 from 8.0 in 2020 to 4.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 8.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.51× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=8.0 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=5.0 · 2023=6.3 · 2024=4.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade B · TCR 4.8 · 74% of ind

  • DART 2.5 DART
  • RANK #17/107
  • PHOTO Park Bend LLC
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~74 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Park Bend LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Avera Dougherty Hospice House in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Avera Dougherty Hospice House averages 4.8 TCR (74% of the Hospices, inpatient care BLS benchmark).

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

Avera Dougherty Hospice House TCR series: 2020=8 · 2021=0 · 2022=5 · 2023=6.3 · 2024=4.9 · BLS 6.5

Where Avera Dougherty Hospice House falls in its industry

15,252 Hospices, inpatient care establishments

Safer than 67% 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 #17 safest of 107 Hospices, inpatient care employers in South Dakota.

Avera Dougherty Hospice House (74 employees, TCR 4.8) 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 Avera Dougherty Hospice House
Avera Dougherty Hospice House (74 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 106 employees and a TCR of 6.6

Avera Dougherty Hospice House has fewer employees than the Hospices, inpatient care 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 4.9 2.5 1 1 0
2023 6.3 6.3 3 0 0
2022 5.0 3.3 3 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 8.0 2.7 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

623110 · SD · Sioux Falls

15,252 Hospices, inpatient care 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 Park Bend LLC 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ambassador Healthcare at College Park 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mount Carmel Communities, LLC 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR St. Otto's Care Center Inc. 4.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sands Drywall Inc. 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE Runge Enterprises, Inc. 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sioux Falls SD Plant 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE Valero Renewable Fuels Company, LLC dba Valero Aurora Plant 74 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 10116 Deerfield 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Sea Gardens 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 0459 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Mercy Hospital St Louis 4.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE GA - Pepperidge Farms 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE AluChem Inc. 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE Threshold Enterprises (VA) 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mechanicsburg - 101 Commerce Drive 74 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.