Nursing homes · South Dakota

Bethel Lutheran Home

Madison, SD · ~115 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
16.1
Avg TCR
6.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bethel Lutheran Home runs at 247% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Nursing homes workplace, earning a grade F.

Bethel Lutheran Home: 16.1 TCR = 247% of Nursing homes BLS 6.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bethel Lutheran Home safety composite

Bethel Lutheran Home scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 8%), 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 16.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers

DART rate
F 17.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% 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

Bethel Lutheran Home: 14.2 → 18.0 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 18.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.12× in 2018

Bethel Lutheran Home's TCR rose 3.8 from 14.2 in 2016 to 18.0 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 1.12× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 623110 · Madison, SD ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 16.1 · 247% of ind

  • DART 18.0 DART
  • RANK #95/107
  • PHOTO Complete Care Linwood
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~115 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Complete Care Linwood (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bethel Lutheran Home in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bethel Lutheran Home averages 16.1 TCR (247% of the Nursing homes BLS benchmark).

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

Bethel Lutheran Home TCR series: 2016=14.2 · 2018=18 · BLS 6.5

Where Bethel Lutheran Home falls in its industry

15,252 Nursing homes establishments

Safer than 10% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Dakota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #95 safest of 107 Nursing homes employers in South Dakota.

Bethel Lutheran Home (115 employees, TCR 16.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 106 employees and a TCR of 6.6 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Bethel Lutheran Home
Bethel Lutheran Home (115 employees, TCR 16.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 106 employees and a TCR of 6.6

Bethel Lutheran Home has more employees than the Nursing homes median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.6. 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
2018 18.0 18.0 1 0 0
2016 14.2 3.9 11 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

623110 · SD · Madison

15,252 Nursing homes employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,778 rated employers in South Dakota with headcount on file · 26 employers in Madison, 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 Complete Care Linwood 16.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Northway Health and Rehabilitation, L.L.C. 16.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Woodward Nursing Center, LLC dba Woodward Skilled Nursing and Therapy 16.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Three Rivers Healthcare & Rehabilitation 16.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE MAIN OFFICE 115 FTE
STATE-SIZE Avera Brady Health and Rehab 115 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fountain Springs SNF Operations, LLC 115 FTE
STATE-SIZE SIOUX FALLS SW CARRIER ANNEX_1382406 114 FTE
CITY-NEAR Manitou Equipment America LLC - Madison 274 FTE
CITY-NEAR Madison Community Hospital d/b/a/ Madison Regional Health System 261 FTE
CITY-NEAR Madison Community Hospital d/b/a Madison Regional Health System 256 FTE
CITY-NEAR Manitou Group Madison SD 247 FTE
NAT-TCR Syracuse (Nyesr) 16.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Waikiki Beach Marriott Resort and Spa 16.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Statesville Campus 16.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Draper Knitting Company - Canton 16.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Holland - EV 115 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kokomo (Inkok) 115 FTE
NAT-SIZE C/P Pacific Glacier 115 FTE
NAT-SIZE UG2 - 595 - TD Garden (MA) 115 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: 2018, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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