Employer · South Dakota

Avera Heart Hospital of South Dakota1

Sioux Falls, SD · ~460 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.6
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Avera Heart Hospital of South Dakota1 runs at 279% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade F.

Avera Heart Hospital of South Dakota1: 10.6 TCR = 279% of industry BLS 3.8 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Avera Heart Hospital of South Dakota1 safety composite

Avera Heart Hospital of South Dakota1 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 9%), 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).

F

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% 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

Avera Heart Hospital of South Dakota1: 7.5 → 32.8 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 32.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.71× in 2021

Avera Heart Hospital of South Dakota1's TCR rose 25.2 from 7.5 in 2016 to 32.8 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 0.71× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 622310 · Sioux Falls, SD ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 10.6 · 279% of ind

  • DART 7.6 DART
  • RANK #11/13
  • PHOTO Encompass Health Roc…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 108 inj
  • SIZE ~460 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Encompass Health Rock Hill (0.0 TCR gap)

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Avera Heart Hospital of South Dakota1 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Avera Heart Hospital of South Dakota1 averages 10.6 TCR (279% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

Avera Heart Hospital of South Dakota1 TCR series: 2016=7.5 · 2017=8.1 · 2018=5.3 · 2019=5.1 · 2020=4.8 · 2021=32.8 · BLS 3.8

Where Avera Heart Hospital of South Dakota1 falls in its industry

1,390 industry establishments

Safer than 11% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.4.

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 13 industry employers in South Dakota.

Avera Heart Hospital of South Dakota1 (460 employees, TCR 10.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 160 employees and a TCR of 5.4 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Avera Heart Hospital of South Dakota1
Avera Heart Hospital of South Dakota1 (460 employees, TCR 10.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 160 employees and a TCR of 5.4

Avera Heart Hospital of South Dakota1 has more employees than the industry median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.4. 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
2021 32.8 7.6 12 1 0
2020 4.8 0.9 16 0 0
2019 5.1 0.6 15 1 0
2018 5.3 1.6 17 0 0
2017 8.1 1.6 25 0 0
2016 7.5 1.6 23 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

622310 · SD · Sioux Falls

1,390 industry 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 Encompass Health Rock Hill 10.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of Gadsden 10.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Landmark Hospital of Salt Lake City 10.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Vibra Hospital of Fargo, LLC d/b/a Vibra Hospital of Fargo 10.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE FPC Yankton 458 FTE
STATE-SIZE Norcraft - Sioux Falls 464 FTE
STATE-SIZE RSD 451 FTE
STATE-SIZE FSDPW9667 FSD - RAMP PAX 469 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 Southwark Metal - Arizona Division 10.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Gresham Damascus OR 10.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Pittsburgh 38440 10.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Milestone Electric 10.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Easter Seals Arc of NE IN 460 FTE
NAT-SIZE 585 Konami Circle 460 FTE
NAT-SIZE Collom & Carney Clinic-Main 460 FTE
NAT-SIZE PHS - Johanna Shores 460 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.