Hospitals, general medical and surgical · South Dakota

Avera Weskota Memorial Hospital

Wessington Springs, SD · ~26 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
4.6
Avg TCR
7.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Avera Weskota Memorial Hospital runs at 61% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Hospitals, general medical and surgical workplace, earning a grade B.

Avera Weskota Memorial Hospital: 4.6 TCR = 61% of Hospitals, general medical and surgical BLS 7.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Avera Weskota Memorial Hospital safety composite

Avera Weskota Memorial 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

68/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% 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%).

Avera Weskota Memorial Hospital held a steady TCR band

Avera Weskota Memorial Hospital's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2017 at 13.1 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.0 · 2017=13.1 · 2018=9.8 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade B · TCR 4.6 · 61% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #36/73
  • PHOTO SH - Building B
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~26 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SH - Building B (0.0 TCR gap)

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Avera Weskota Memorial Hospital in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Avera Weskota Memorial Hospital averages 4.6 TCR (61% of the Hospitals, general medical and surgical BLS benchmark).

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

Avera Weskota Memorial Hospital TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=13.1 · 2018=9.8 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · BLS 7.5

Where Avera Weskota Memorial Hospital falls in its industry

6,862 Hospitals, general medical and establishments

Safer than 59% 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 #36 safest of 73 Hospitals, general medical and employers in South Dakota.

Avera Weskota Memorial Hospital (26 employees, TCR 4.6) 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 Weskota Memorial Hospital
Avera Weskota Memorial Hospital (26 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Avera Weskota Memorial Hospital has fewer employees than the Hospitals, general medical and surgical 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
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 9.8 4.9 2 0 0
2017 13.1 4.4 3 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

622110 · SD · Wessington Springs

6,862 Hospitals, general medical and surgical employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,778 rated employers in South Dakota with headcount on file · 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 SH - Building B 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR SAINT VINCENT HOSPITAL 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR AdventHealth Winter Garden 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR AdventHealth Lenexa 4.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Schwartz Farms Kaylor SD 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE FSG-SOUTH DAKOTA 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southeastern Electric Cooperative Lennox 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Main Office 26 FTE
CITY-NEAR Avera Westkota Memorial Hospital 23 FTE
NAT-TCR EWP Las Cruces New Mexico 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR GFF Inc 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Table & Vine 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Charter NEX Films, Inc. - Superior Plant Location 4.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Santa Clara Store 17 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6396-Sprenger Health Care of Massillon 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Shcc Spartanburg 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Waupun Equipment - Waupun 26 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: 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.