Orthopedic surgeons' offices (e.g., centers, clinics) · South Dakota

Avera OSS and Dakota Plains

Aberdeen, SD · ~90 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.8
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Avera OSS and Dakota Plains runs at 99% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Orthopedic surgeons' offices (e.g., centers, clinics) workplace, earning a grade C.

Avera OSS and Dakota Plains: 3.8 TCR = 99% of Orthopedic surgeons' offices (e.g., centers, clinics) BLS 3.8 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Avera OSS and Dakota Plains safety composite

Avera OSS and Dakota Plains scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 40%), 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

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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 OSS and Dakota Plains: 1.1 → 2.9 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 8.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2019

Avera OSS and Dakota Plains's TCR rose 1.8 from 1.1 in 2016 to 2.9 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 8.3 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 621111 · Aberdeen, SD AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.8 · 99% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #5/10
  • PHOTO MEDOC Maine Correcti…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~90 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: MEDOC Maine Correctional Center (0.0 TCR gap)

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Avera OSS and Dakota Plains in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Avera OSS and Dakota Plains averages 3.8 TCR (99% of the Orthopedic surgeons' offices (e.g., centers, clinics) BLS benchmark).

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

Avera OSS and Dakota Plains TCR series: 2016=1.1 · 2017=2.7 · 2018=8.3 · 2019=2.9 · BLS 3.8

Where Avera OSS and Dakota Plains falls in its industry

2,836 Orthopedic surgeons' offices ( establishments

Safer than 40% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Dakota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 10 Orthopedic surgeons' offices ( employers in South Dakota.

Avera OSS and Dakota Plains (90 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.1 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 0200400600800 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Avera OSS and Dakota Plains
Avera OSS and Dakota Plains (90 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.1

Avera OSS and Dakota Plains has more employees than the Orthopedic surgeons' offices (e.g., cent median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.1. 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 2.9 0.0 2 0 0
2018 8.3 1.4 6 0 0
2017 2.7 0.0 2 0 0
2016 1.1 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

621111 · SD · Aberdeen

2,836 Orthopedic surgeons' offices (e.g., centers, clinics) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,778 rated employers in South Dakota with headcount on file · 86 employers in Aberdeen, 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 MEDOC Maine Correctional Center 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Holzer Athens 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 321 Crossways Park Drive 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR EH Surgery Center - Miller Hill 3.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sioux Falls Service Center-DB 90 FTE
STATE-SIZE Complete Concrete, Inc. 90 FTE
STATE-SIZE 3S US Foods Sioux Falls 90 FTE
STATE-SIZE Huey Long Co Inc DBA Heartland Pella 90 FTE
CITY-NEAR New Angus, LLC dba DemKota Ranch Beef 761 FTE
CITY-NEAR Avera St. Luke's Hospital 758 FTE
CITY-NEAR Aberdeen 716 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1520 397 FTE
NAT-TCR Serrano Electric Inc 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Residence Inn Rocky Hill 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Odenton, MD Office 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 4054-Abs 0021 3215 3.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Holiday Inn 90 FTE
NAT-SIZE Akers National Roll 90 FTE
NAT-SIZE Branch 1 & 61 90 FTE
NAT-SIZE White Skanska Consigli JV 90 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, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.