Elementary and secondary schools · South Dakota

LifeScape Children Services 26th St.

Sioux Falls, SD · ~489 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
25.9
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

LifeScape Children Services 26th St. runs at 1850% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Elementary and secondary schools workplace, earning a grade F.

LifeScape Children Services 26th St.: 25.9 TCR = 1850% of Elementary and secondary schools BLS 1.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

LifeScape Children Services 26th St. safety composite

LifeScape Children Services 26th St. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 1%), 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

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 25.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% 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

LifeScape Children Services 26th St.: 22.7 → 33.7 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 33.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.08× in 2018

LifeScape Children Services 26th St.'s TCR rose 11.0 from 22.7 in 2016 to 33.7 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.08× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 611110 · Sioux Falls, SD ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 25.9 · 1850% of ind

  • DART 2.0 DART
  • RANK #4/4
  • PHOTO ACCESS & Transportat…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 232 inj
  • SIZE ~489 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ACCESS & Transportation (0.1 TCR gap)

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LifeScape Children Services 26th St. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows LifeScape Children Services 26th St. averages 25.9 TCR (1850% of the Elementary and secondary schools BLS benchmark).

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

LifeScape Children Services 26th St. TCR series: 2016=22.7 · 2017=21.3 · 2018=33.7 · BLS 1.4

Where LifeScape Children Services 26th St. falls in its industry

3,374 Elementary and secondary schoo establishments

Safer than 1% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Dakota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 4 Elementary and secondary schoo employers in South Dakota.

LifeScape Children Services 26th St. (489 employees, TCR 25.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.8 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 02,0004,0006,0008,00010,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate LifeScape Children Services 26th St.
LifeScape Children Services 26th St. (489 employees, TCR 25.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.8

LifeScape Children Services 26th St. has more employees than the Elementary and secondary schools median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.8. 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 33.7 2.0 101 0 0
2017 21.3 3.8 68 0 0
2016 22.7 1.0 63 3 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611110 · SD · Sioux Falls

3,374 Elementary and secondary schools employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,778 rated employers in South Dakota with headcount on file · 542 employers in Sioux Falls, 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 ACCESS & Transportation 26.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR PLANT OPERATIONS 26.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mill Road School 26.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Whitney High School East 25.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE WM 1604 485 FTE
STATE-SIZE Interbake foods NSC 483 FTE
STATE-SIZE Interbake Foods 480 FTE
STATE-SIZE FSDPW9667 FSD - RAMP PAX 469 FTE
CITY-NEAR SD,Sioux Falls-Medical Center Campus-General Medical And Surgical Hospitals 6,424 FTE
CITY-NEAR SD,SIOUX FALLS - Medical Center Campus - General Medical and Surgical Hospitals 4,818 FTE
CITY-NEAR Smithfield Foods 3,459 FTE
CITY-NEAR Avera McKennan Hospital 3,312 FTE
NAT-TCR Detroit Reentry Center 25.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 260 Columbia (Irmo) 25.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 1916 Ros1000 25.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Phl-Ground Ops 25.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE OHare (HR) 489 FTE
NAT-SIZE Newark Airport (Njnew) 489 FTE
NAT-SIZE ArcelorMittal Steelton LLC. 489 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Huntington Library 489 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, 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.