Hospitals, general medical and surgical · South Dakota

Avera McKennan Hospital

Sioux Falls, SD · ~3,312 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
5.2
Avg TCR
7.5
Industry avg
1
Fatality

The verdict

Avera McKennan Hospital runs at 69% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Hospitals, general medical and surgical workplace, earning a grade B.

B
Good Safety Record
5.2
avg TCR · per 100 workers
7.5
industry benchmark (BLS)
1
worker fatalities on record

Grade compares Avera McKennan Hospital's OSHA Total Case Rate of 5.2 to the Hospitals, general medical and surgical BLS benchmark of 7.5 (69% of benchmark) across 9 years of Form 300A filings (2016–2024). <a href="/methodology">See methodology</a> for reporting-limitation caveats.

Injury rate over time

Avera McKennan Hospital's yearly Total Case Rate, against the 7.5 industry benchmark.

345678 201620172018201920202021202220232024 4.27.5 Industry benchmarkAvera McKennan Hospital TCR
Total Case Rate (recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers), OSHA ITA Form 300A. Industry benchmark: BLS IIF, NAICS 622110.

Where Avera McKennan Hospital falls in its industry

7,181 Hospitals, general medical and establishments

Safer than 48% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Dakota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #47 safest of 76 Hospitals, general medical and employers in South Dakota.

Trend analysis for Avera McKennan Hospital

Between 2016 and 2024, Avera McKennan Hospital's Total Case Rate improved from 6.0 to 4.2 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers, a 30% decrease across 8 years of OSHA reporting.

The safest year on record was 2021, at a TCR of 4.0, while 2016 saw the highest rate, at 6.0, a spread of 2.0 points between the best and worst reporting years. That's a comparatively narrow spread, suggesting a fairly consistent safety record across the 9 years with a usable rate on file, rather than one outlier year skewing the multi-year average.

Summed across those 9 reporting years, Avera McKennan Hospital recorded 1,265 total injuries and illnesses and 1 fatality. Readers comparing establishments should weigh the 9-year trend above alongside establishment size, since a larger workforce naturally accumulates more raw incidents even at a lower per-100-worker rate.

Verify This Employer with OSHA

The 1,265 injuries, 41 illnesses, and 1 fatality shown on this page for Avera McKennan Hospital are sourced from its own 9 years of mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source, name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.

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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 622110 - Hospitals, general medical and surgical.

DART Rate, Transparent Calculation (2024)

What is the DART rate formula?

DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.

35 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 7,308,837 hours worked = 0.96 DART

Methodology: 29 CFR 1904, OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping

Cross-Validating Context, Establishment vs Industry vs State

Benchmark TCR Source
Avera McKennan Hospital (this establishment) 5.18 OSHA ITA Form 300A, 9-year avg
Hospitals, general medical and surgical industry avg 7.50 BLS IIF, NAICS 622110
South Dakota state avg (all industries) 5.84 OSHA ITA, state-level rollup

Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program

Reportable Incident Timeline

Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by Avera McKennan Hospital to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.

Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) - inspection case-number records

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2024 4.2 1.0 150 3 0
2023 4.3 0.9 147 2 0
2022 5.5 1.5 158 25 0
2021 4.0 1.1 110 3 0
2020 5.3 1.6 140 6 0
2019 6.0 1.6 153 1 1
2018 5.9 1.2 138 0 0
2017 5.7 2.0 133 0 0
2016 6.0 1.6 136 1 0

What this grade means for you

Use this grade as a relative read on Avera McKennan Hospital's reported OSHA injury record, strong versus its Hospitals, general medical and surgical peers, but not a guarantee about any single site today.

  • At 69% of the Hospitals, general medical and surgical benchmark, Avera McKennan Hospital reports fewer injuries than typical peers, still worth asking how safety is managed day to day. Know your rights
  • Judge this record against the wider Hospitals, general medical and surgical sector, where injury rates vary widely, before comparing it in isolation. See the industry
  • Grades reflect 2016–2024 filings; check the latest establishment record straight from OSHA, or look up a different employer. Look up another

Safety grades reflect employers' self-reported OSHA Form 300A filings from 2016 to 2024 and can lag current conditions. A grade is not a guarantee that any specific workplace is safe or unsafe today. See our methodology and disclaimer.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Avera McKennan Hospital's safety grade?
Avera McKennan Hospital has a safety grade of B (Good Safety Record). This grade is based on their average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 5.2 compared to the BLS industry benchmark of 7.5 for Hospitals, general medical and surgical.
How many injuries has Avera McKennan Hospital reported?
Avera McKennan Hospital has reported 1,265 total injuries and 1 fatalities across 9 years of OSHA data (2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016). This data comes from mandatory OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA) reports.

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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, 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. Retrieved and formatted by PlainSafetyScore Editorial

Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.