General medical and surgical hospitals · South Dakota

Avera Gettysburg Hospital

Gettysburg, SD · ~27 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
4.9
Avg TCR
7.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Avera Gettysburg Hospital runs at 65% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical General medical and surgical hospitals workplace, earning a grade B.

Avera Gettysburg Hospital: 4.9 TCR = 65% of General medical and surgical hospitals BLS 7.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Avera Gettysburg Hospital safety composite

Avera Gettysburg Hospital 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).

C

66/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% 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%).

TCR Δ

−5.7

2017→2019

Avera Gettysburg Hospital injury rate improved

Avera Gettysburg Hospital's TCR fell 5.7 from 10.2 in 2017 to 4.5 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2017 at 10.2 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=10.2 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=4.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade B · TCR 4.9 · 65% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #41/73
  • PHOTO Fairview Hospital
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~27 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Fairview Hospital (0.0 TCR gap)

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Avera Gettysburg Hospital in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Avera Gettysburg Hospital averages 4.9 TCR (65% 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

Avera Gettysburg Hospital TCR series: 2017=10.2 · 2018=0 · 2019=4.5 · BLS 7.5

Where Avera Gettysburg Hospital falls in its industry

6,862 General medical and surgical h establishments

Safer than 54% 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 #41 safest of 73 General medical and surgical h employers in South Dakota.

Avera Gettysburg Hospital (27 employees, TCR 4.9) 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 Avera Gettysburg Hospital
Avera Gettysburg Hospital (27 employees, TCR 4.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Avera Gettysburg Hospital 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 4.5 0.0 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 10.2 5.1 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

622110 · SD · Gettysburg

6,862 General medical and surgical hospitals employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,778 rated employers in South Dakota with headcount on file · 5 employers in Gettysburg, 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 Fairview Hospital 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR WILLAMETTE VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 0206-02620951 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Aspirus Iron River Hospital 4.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Continental Resources - Buffalo, SD 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sioux Valley Energy - Brandon 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Puetz Design + Build - Sioux Falls 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE H&W Contracting LLC 27 FTE
CITY-NEAR Avera Gettysburg Hospital DBA Avera Missouri River Health Center 59 FTE
CITY-NEAR Avera Oahe Manor 50 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gettysburg Main 28 FTE
CITY-NEAR C & B Operations Gettysburg 23 FTE
NAT-TCR Holliston Holdings, LLC 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Tulsat LLC 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 5472-Swy 0035 0128 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Aspen Products - East (VA) 4.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Martin Sullivan Quincy IL 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nichols St. ICF 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Panda Liberty 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Frattallone's Ace Hardware-St. Louis Park 27 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, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.