General medical and surgical hospitals · South Dakota

Black Hills Surgical Hospital

Rapid City, SD · ~315 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
9.2
Avg TCR
7.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Black Hills Surgical Hospital runs at 122% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical General medical and surgical hospitals workplace, earning a grade D.

Black Hills Surgical Hospital: 9.2 TCR = 122% of General medical and surgical hospitals BLS 7.5 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Black Hills Surgical Hospital safety composite

Black Hills Surgical Hospital scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 10%), 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

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Black Hills Surgical Hospital: 8.1 → 9.3 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 11.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.24× in 2023

Black Hills Surgical Hospital's TCR rose 1.2 from 8.1 in 2016 to 9.3 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 11.7 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.24× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 622110 · Rapid City, SD ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 9.2 · 122% of ind

  • DART 2.2 DART
  • RANK #66/73
  • PHOTO Lovelace Women's Hos…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 187 inj
  • SIZE ~315 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Lovelace Women's Hospital (0.0 TCR gap)

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Black Hills Surgical Hospital in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Black Hills Surgical Hospital averages 9.2 TCR (122% of the General medical and surgical hospitals BLS benchmark).

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

Black Hills Surgical Hospital TCR series: 2016=8.1 · 2017=8.2 · 2018=9.2 · 2019=10.3 · 2020=6.4 · 2021=10.1 · 2022=11.7 · 2023=9.3 · BLS 7.5

Where Black Hills Surgical Hospital falls in its industry

6,862 General medical and surgical h establishments

Safer than 10% 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 #66 safest of 73 General medical and surgical h employers in South Dakota.

Black Hills Surgical Hospital (315 employees, TCR 9.2) 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 Black Hills Surgical Hospital
Black Hills Surgical Hospital (315 employees, TCR 9.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Black Hills Surgical Hospital has fewer employees than the General medical and surgical hospitals median and a higher 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
2023 9.3 2.2 26 0 0
2022 11.7 2.9 34 2 0
2021 10.1 2.2 27 1 0
2020 6.4 1.6 16 0 0
2019 10.3 3.4 25 2 0
2018 9.2 3.6 22 1 0
2017 8.2 1.3 19 0 0
2016 8.1 2.3 18 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

622110 · SD · Rapid City

6,862 General medical and surgical hospitals employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,778 rated employers in South Dakota with headcount on file · 219 employers in Rapid City, 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 Lovelace Women's Hospital 9.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jersey City Medical Center 9.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 02822001 S. SACRAMENTO HOSPITAL 9.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR UHS Wilson Medical Center 9.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE 4865 315 FTE
STATE-SIZE Muth Electric, Inc. 318 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wilson Trailer Yankton 311 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 2990 311 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rapid City Hospital 2,320 FTE
CITY-NEAR Black Hills Works 683 FTE
CITY-NEAR Black Hills Corp. Headquarters (SD006) 590 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1604 513 FTE
NAT-TCR St. Croix Wood Components 9.2 TCR
NAT-TCR River Crossing of Peoria 9.2 TCR
NAT-TCR UHS Wilson Medical Center 9.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Scott Street Senior Housing Complex dba Rhoda Goldman Plaza 9.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE 815 Entertainment dba Rockford Casino 315 FTE
NAT-SIZE Durant OK Warehouse Complex # 879 315 FTE
NAT-SIZE Burbank Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center 315 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - MCO6 315 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 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.