Activity centers for disabled persons, the elderly, and persons diagnosed with intellectual and developmental disabilities · South Dakota

Northern Hills Training Center

Spearfish, SD · ~146 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.8
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Northern Hills Training Center runs at 179% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Activity centers for disabled persons, the elderly, and persons diagnosed with intellectual and developmental disabilities workplace, earning a grade D.

Northern Hills Training Center: 6.8 TCR = 179% of Activity centers for disabled persons, the elderly, and persons diagnosed with intellectual and developmental disabilities BLS 3.8 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Northern Hills Training Center safety composite

Northern Hills Training Center scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 30%), 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

38/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.2

2016→2024

Northern Hills Training Center injury rate improved

Northern Hills Training Center's TCR fell 2.2 from 6.0 in 2016 to 3.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 15.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.42× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=6.0 · 2020=6.5 · 2021=15.3 · 2022=4.1 · 2023=5.2 · 2024=3.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 624120 · Spearfish, SD ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.8 · 179% of ind

  • DART 2.9 DART
  • RANK P30
  • PHOTO Annapolis
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 50 inj
  • SIZE ~146 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Annapolis (0.0 TCR gap)

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Northern Hills Training Center in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Northern Hills Training Center averages 6.8 TCR (179% of the Activity centers for disabled persons, the elderly, and persons diagnosed with intellectual and developmental disabilities BLS benchmark).

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

Northern Hills Training Center TCR series: 2016=6 · 2020=6.5 · 2021=15.3 · 2022=4.1 · 2023=5.2 · 2024=3.8 · BLS 3.8

Where Northern Hills Training Center falls in its industry

1,320 Activity centers for disabled establishments

Safer than 30% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Northern Hills Training Center (146 employees, TCR 6.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 05001,0001,5002,0002,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Northern Hills Training Center
Northern Hills Training Center (146 employees, TCR 6.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Northern Hills Training Center has more employees than the Activity centers for disabled persons, t median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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
2024 3.8 2.9 4 0 0
2023 5.2 3.4 6 0 0
2022 4.1 2.4 5 0 0
2021 15.3 0.8 18 0 0
2020 6.5 0.8 8 0 0
2016 6.0 1.3 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

624120 · SD · Spearfish

1,320 Activity centers for disabled persons, the elderly, and persons diagnosed with intellectual and developmental disabilities employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,778 rated employers in South Dakota with headcount on file · 26 employers in Spearfish, 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 Annapolis 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Eden Prairie Community Center 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sunshine Care 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR PeopleCare of Western Colorado LLC 6.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Midwestern Mechanical, Inc. 146 FTE
STATE-SIZE MWRailcar 146 FTE
STATE-SIZE AH Avera Central Office 146 FTE
STATE-SIZE Coca - Cola Bottling Company High Country - Black Hills 147 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1543 399 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1543 356 FTE
CITY-NEAR Monument Health Spearfish Hospital 300 FTE
CITY-NEAR Regional Health Spearfish Hospital 285 FTE
NAT-TCR Valley Vue Care Center 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Gateway Building Systems Inc 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Inn by the Sea 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Marion Health 6.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE 2580 Market Place Rice Lake, WI 146 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nashville Record Pressing 146 FTE
NAT-SIZE Northwest Pipe Company 146 FTE
NAT-SIZE Filtration Group 146 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 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.